'they don't know what you're talking about'

A criticism I sense regarding my screenplays and my blog and my entire shtick. 😠 - Bluntly: I watched The Wire in high school; I didn't use subtitles -- I just watched it, and eventually that Baltimore patois began to make sense to me. 🐝 What about Mona Lisa last night? Did anyone who stalks me turn subs on for that? - What about Oklahoma? Or Hamilton? This is just chauvinism from Americans and Brits that aren't au fait with Australasian vernacular. This is the bullshit that drives me mental about NZ's theatre and film industry: we pretend as if 'our thing' is distinctive and unique, but most of the people making high-level decisions in those industries aren't native New Zealanders. If I'm allowed to be somewhat bold, I'd claim what has separated my work from that of my peers in musicals or films is that my stuff is unapologetically Kiwi. - That's also probably why it's connected with people. 🥝 Barbie told me that opera singers have their natural accent deliberately trained out of them, while my approach has been exactly the opposite. I'm a republican: in my mind, we're not a colony of Britain anymore. Instead, we're a Pacific nation. That's what my various projects reflect, and that's why my dream trip is going to other Pacific nations and learning more about their guitar music. Does that clear things up for my critics?