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I don't know what you country is, but I've felt the same way as soon as I started understanding English, a semi-rare feat at the time in my city/region (Normand
by xwolfi 6y ago
I don't know what you country is, but I've felt the same way as soon as I started understanding English, a semi-rare feat at the time in my city/region (Normandy, France). I've felt so alienated, having all my private life in English (news, podcast, books, discussions online) that after trying to make my gf of 6 years follow a bit, I decide to give it all up and move to a more English-speaking country (Hong Kong).
This was not the ONLY reason of course, but after having left behind all this frenchness, I have never felt so at home. Which is funny because there's nothing more foreign than a Normandy guy in Hong Kong, but at least here everything is in English, everyone speaks it to some extent while having another main language (so just like me).
I'll always be a foreigner in the eyes of Chinese people, for sure, but I'll never find a place with some many people like me, they even are majority right wing capitalists like me, something very rare in France :D