Consider a breakfast menu, the chicken, and the pig: like the chicken, the émigré may be abstractly concerned with the direction of the Old Country, but unlike

Consider a breakfast menu, the chicken, and the pig: like the chicken, the émigré may be abstractly concerned with the direction of the Old Country, but unlike the pig, is in no concrete way committed! [also: I'm an old married man — I already know what I'm having; you may do better to ask someone younger what's currently on the menu?]