I’d say ‘while’ is perfectly fine for a native speaker in place of ‘because’. You could leave ‘while’ out of the sentence, the comma alone implies ‘because’. The reason for the statement is implied by the two clauses sitting side by side, many connective words would do equally well, right? The only thing that suggests a non-native speaker to me is ‘respect to’, which is still sometimes correct. Respect to charitable interpretations, and respect to multi-lingual people.