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"white" people can't immigrate? Are they immobile ? What's preventing them from immigrating?
by 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 :)