guardian | In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words,
created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else.
One of those remnants is the word “expat”.
What is an expat? And who is an expat? According to Wikipedia, “an
expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or
permanently residing in a country other than that of the person’s
upbringing. The word comes from the Latin terms ex (‘out of’) and patria
(‘country, fatherland’)”.
Defined that way, you should expect that any person going to work
outside of his or her country for a period of time would be an expat,
regardless of his skin colour or country. But that is not the case in
reality; expat is a term reserved exclusively for western white people
going to work abroad.
Africans are immigrants. Arabs are immigrants. Asians are immigrants.
However, Europeans are expats because they can’t be at the same level
as other ethnicities. They are superior. Immigrants is a term set aside
for ‘inferior races’.
Don’t take my word for it. The Wall Street Journal, the leading financial information magazine in the world, has a blog dedicated to the life of expats and recently they featured a story ‘Who is an expat, anyway?’.
Here are the main conclusions: “Some arrivals are described as expats;
others as immigrants; and some simply as migrants. It depends on social
class, country of origin and economic status. It’s strange to hear some
people in Hong Kong described as expats, but not others. Anyone with
roots in a western country is considered an expat … Filipino domestic
helpers are just guests, even if they’ve been here for decades.
Mandarin-speaking mainland Chinese are rarely regarded as expats … It’s a
double standard woven into official policy.”
7 comments:
The System knows IQ-160 when it sees it. Thus the distinction.....
What system is that BD?
System (with a capital S) = Society in general.....
---- Expat - Self sufficient, has resources, FTO, and viable options and choices.
---- Immigrant - Parasite fled to benevolent host, saving own hopeless ass from chaotic 3rdWorld S-hole.
ummm...., BD, I think I hear the telephone ringing. "hello, um hm, um hm, hold on one sec magne: BD - it's for you, UBJ on the line" http://uglyblackjohn.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-probable-making-of-remy-i-mean-ummm.html
...Accurate descriptions are essential for good communications. BD is sorry that different nomenclatures, however offensive, must of necessity apply to peoples of different personal qualities. So, deal with it......
lol, Remy, are you telling me thatThat the kid showered (in shame?) with his tighty-whities on seemed odd in a room full on free-swinging kids. That the kid couldn't understand how even the Black kids could still
attract the pretty white girls while he struggled with game seemed to
make him more confused.was dead on the money.
Nah, just defective education... http://www.businessinsider.com/closing-arguments-in-atlanta-cheating-trial-2015-3
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