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Saying "generic American accent" is about as valuable as someone doing a cockney accent and saying it's generic British.
I remember seeing some claim they did a study of English accents around the world and when they tried to average them all they got something similar to how people talk in Boston. Which I must say that's hard to believe, but fuck do I know
I mean, how do you "average out" accents?
pick the vowels and consonants in a word with lots of the vowels and consonants that change between accents, then chart them. then pick the mode for each individual sound. i know it sounds ghotiy but it works.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G72tZdjnS2A
I take your point, which was why I added the next sentence acknowledging the variety of US accents. I'd argue that the Mid-Atlantic accent that most (but certainly not all) movie stars use is the closest thing to said generic accent.