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Very anecdotal but just today I was talking to a Lebanese person who is going home this weekend. They said the situation is very bad but life is still some wha
by kilroy123 5y ago
Very anecdotal but just today I was talking to a Lebanese person who is going home this weekend.
They said the situation is very bad but life is still some what humming along. They're going to a wedding next week and plan to go out and party with friends.
Maybe they're in the top part of society?
- anm89 5y agoTo be fair, just knowing foreigners is probably predictive of higher economic outcomes I would imagine this to be equally true of Americans
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoThere are entire countries living off Western Union. People in my country send food packages to the former colonies. And every summer tens of thousands of travel to Morocco.
- anm89 5y agoI'm talking about just socially randomly knowing people from other countries. It sounds like what you are talking about is more family\immigrant diaspora networks. Different definitions of "knowing foreigners Based on the way the parent said "a Lebanese person“ without mentioning a relationship I implied the former.
- raincom 5y agoThere are differences. For instance, filipinos or Indians working in the middle east, is different from filipinos or Indians in the EU/UK/USA/Canada--the economic status differs. Even the people who go to middle east are in a better state than many who don't.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Maybe they're in the top part of society? People who are going home from foreign travel to a place where 80% have neither food nor money to buy it is, almost certainly, in an economic stratum several substantial steps above the middle, if perhaps not at the very top.