Do East Asians/South Asians/African language speakers perceive a general "Western" accent?
In the west, and especially in the US, there seems to be an idea of a generalized "East Asian" accent when people from this region speak english, even though languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are vastly different. With some slight training you can definitely tell them apart, but I'm sure the average American could more easily discern the differences between a French, German, or Italian accent over the differences between a Chinese or Korean accent. This seems to be the same for India and Africa, both places with vast linguistic diversity, but with Americans percieving these regions as having one unified accent when speaking english. If anyone is from these places, would you say that people in your region, especially non-english speakers, can generally tell the difference between the accents of different European languages?
Also, a lot of westerners would struggle to tell the difference between spoken Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc, but can most people in your region easily discern the difference between spoken English, German, Spanish, Italian, etc...?
Maybea there are shared phonologies within regions, even between very different languages? I honestly don't know so please let me know!