Don’t you know me, I’m your native son.

When his teachers invited him to leave his native Malaysia to go to Afghanistan, he was thrilled.

Even so, on a scale where 10 was most truthful, native English speakers got a score of 7.5, people with mild accents a score of 6.95 and people with heavy accents a score of 6.84.

She introduced me to indigenous philosophy and showed me that there was an incredibly deep a valid intrepretation of the world that had been born and nurtured in North America.

I had a few more hours in New Orleans, and I enjoyed the city they call the Big Easy like a native son.