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It's pretty well known that (relatively affluent) white immigrants are called expats instead of immigrants. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-prof
by tabeth 10y ago
It's pretty well known that (relatively affluent) white immigrants are called expats instead of immigrants.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/mar/13/white-people-expats-immigrants-migration https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jnylander/2015/04/03/in-china-who-is-an-expat-and-who-is-an-immigrant http://www.forbes.com/sites/jnylander/2015/04/03/in-china-wh...
- umeshunni 10y agoEh - no. I was a 'brown' person living in the middle east and called an expat. Expat implies an intent to return or a temporary worker and is a frequently used term in the middle east/asia. E.g https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-25/expat-fee-subsidy-cuts-what-s-in-saudi-fiscal-balance-document https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-25/expat-fee... Not everything has to be viewed from an SJW angle
- tabeth 10y agoI never said brown people can't be called expats. Your defensiveness regarding that is more SJW than my original post, which just cited a few articles.