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Expats? You mean immigrants?
by softcactus 4y ago
Expats? You mean immigrants?
- woleium 4y agoMigrant workers?
- EdwardDiego 4y agoThey're here to pick your SEO strategies.
- kmonsen 4y agoNo this is white people
- sfmike 4y ago"white" people can't immigrate? Are they immobile ? What's preventing them from immigrating?
- elevaet 4y agoThey were being facetious, it's a critique of the racist/classist tendency in our language to label people with brown skin living in another country as "immigrants" but white people as "ex-pats". It's related to the history of WASP colonialism.
- _v7gu 4y agoI think they tread the line in reverse here: I don't think LA Times would put out news that call for immigrants to "go home" but it's fair game when they call them expats.
- imran-iq 4y agoThey don't like being called immigrants since they use it in a mostly negative context, so they are expats :)
- refurb 4y agoFound the racial grifter
- eps 4y agoExpats usually refer to skilled or wealthy immigrants. It's a subclass.
- cuteboy19 4y agoMost skilled immigrants are still immigrants, unless we start calling h1bs expats
- wenc 4y agoExpats = moving there temporarily, either on assignment or retirement. Immigrants = moving there to settle down permanently, eventually naturalizing. You can start off being an expat and turn into an immigrant.
- Dudeman112 4y agoSemantic drift is a thing. Expat hasn't really been used with that meaning lately. Same as third/first world countries, gay or terrific.