Comment on Time to bash Americans again

• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I always thought expats had to live in little expat communities, keeping themselves aloof from the rest of the population. It’s a level of snobbery beyond even still caring where you’re originally from. That was my understanding from all the little compounds I saw in the global south.

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean some people typically called immigrants do that too

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    • HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Typically because that’s where they’re ALLOWED to live.

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean income directs it a bunch but some communities are just very insular and like to keep to themselves.

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When brown, they are inmigrantes anda those are ghettos. When white, they are expats in expat communities.

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Typically “expat” communities are much wealthier. Poor white immigrants live in pretty shit conditions too and the areas are considered ghettos, at least historically

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  • Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We should call them extracts and their communities “extractor communities”

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  • WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t forget to mention why they left their own country.

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For those unaware, an expat is an immigrant, but white and racist.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d personally argue against it. I’ve a British neighbour old-man who I walk with and he’s very nice and world travelled. He even said that he chose to have the British retirement fund over my country’s because that’s where he paid taxes in.

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• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think Japan also gets ‘Expat’ credentials too.

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• lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Core memory unlocked: Looking at a store called “Expat store” or something in that vein in Den Haag as a little boy, asking my parent what “expat” is. “That’s an American immigrant.” “So, why are they not just an immigrant?” “That way they feel better about themselves.”

  I only just realised how based my parents are.

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