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I lived and worked in SEA for about 10 years. I’m pretty sure I never went to an expat social gathering. I never understood expat communities. Primarily sociali
by AmericanChopper 6y ago
I lived and worked in SEA for about 10 years. I’m pretty sure I never went to an expat social gathering. I never understood expat communities. Primarily socializing with an insular expat social groups seemed to defeat the purpose of moving abroad to a certain extent.
- dogma1138 6y agoI wonder if people would say the same about immigrant communities in their own country it’s basically the same thing you just get to see the other side of it.
- AmericanChopper 6y agoInsular immigrant communities who take no interest in local customs, or even worse, attempt to coerce local conformance to their own customs are generally viewed as rather contemptible in every country. If you can’t adapt to the local way of doing things, then you’re simply a bad immigrant. The western identity politics view that this is somehow racist or xenophobic is anomalous and you won’t find it anywhere else in the world. I made a lot of great friends living in SEA, and met a lot of locals who were very welcoming of me. But those same people would typically (and rightfully, imo) hold a rather dim view of westerns who moved in, had no interest in learning the local language, little interest in learning local cultural customs, and little interest in participating in local communities.