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Point. I've read about this, too - especially people who've grown up multicultural tend to glom together as a "international ethnicity". One of the real attra
by Vivtek 17y ago
Point. I've read about this, too - especially people who've grown up multicultural tend to glom together as a "international ethnicity". One of the real attractions of living somewhere other than "your country" is being one of the expat crowd and love/hate dissing the local culture.
- jacquesm 17y agoYou're in for a double helping of culture shock as long as you still consider yourself a 'national' of some country. I try - with partial success - to live as though being born in some place was pure chance and to try to lose the myopic view of life that you get when you keep seeing things through the lens of home. It's a mixed success, and I haven't even lived in places that were very different from the one that I was born in. For me the 'security blanket' seems to be cheese. As long as I can find a good chunk of cheese somewhere I can deal with the rest. Selling cheese at exorbitant prices to immigrants must be a great way to make money.