Why do many people in America speak Cantonese?

In the past, most immigrants from China in North America spoke Cantonese, and foreigners deliberately imitated it, which meant discriminating against Chinese.

Overseas Chinese and overseas students in early America mainly came from Guangdong and Fujian coastal areas. When Americans listen to them speak Cantonese, their pronunciation is just like "ching chang chong", which is a syllable unique to China people. So we use the worm to imitate the pronunciation of Chinese.

Cantonese, known as Cantonese and Guangfu dialect in Guangdong and vernacular in Guangxi, is a kind of tonal language and belongs to Sino-Tibetan Chinese dialect. It is the mother tongue of Guangfu people in Guangdong and Cantonese people in Guangxi. Widely used in central and western Guangdong, southeastern Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao and some countries or regions in South China and Southeast Asia, as well as overseas Chinese communities.

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There are as many as nine tones: yin and yang are divided horizontally, and the yin tone (from the ancient voiced initials) and the yang tone (from the ancient voiced initials) are well coordinated. There are three tones, including yin tone (upper yin tone), middle tone (lower yin tone), yang tone, long vowels with middle tone and short vowels with yin tone, such as "Ba [pat3]" and "Bi [p tone T5]".

Nine tones and six tones: Yin Ping, Yin Shang, Yin Qu, Yang Ping, Yang Shang, Yang Qu, Yin Entering, Zhong Yin Entering and Yang Entering.

Nine tones and six tones are nine tones and six tones. Simple understanding: First, one tone corresponds to one tone, six tones correspond to six tones, and the other three tones are entering tones.

In fact, the pitch of the tones of Yin-in, Zhong-in and Yang-in is the same as that of Yin-in, Yin-out and Yang-out, and they are only distinguished by entering words ending in -p, -t and-K. Because of the definition of tone, it includes intonation (that is, actual pitch) and cadence. The vowels -p, -t and -k affect its frustration. Therefore, even if only 1 to 6 are used to mark six tones, some people think that it cannot be simply called six tones, or nine tones, or further, "nine tones and six tones".