Wherever I look I can see news about a few very rich individuals being stranded on a submarine that was supposed to take them on a tour of the Titanic. The effort put in place to rescue them appears huge in scope.
Last week over six hundred people died in a #shripweck off the coasts of #Greece and nobody cared. Nobody even bothered to start a rescue operation until it was too late.
Stop pretending people are equal, I hate this hypocrisy.
Also I refuse to call them immigrants. These are people, human beings.
It's like being called an expat just because you're a wealthy immigrant. I'm not an expat, I'm an immigrant myself, just one that happens to be rich enough to be accepted without a peep.
People literally hide behind the word expat because immigrant is placeholder for poor, and we live in a world that frowns upon poverty as if it were a crime, not a condition deliberately imposed on people.
@gabrielesvelto I always thought "expat" meant a person living in another country temporarily (for work, for example). I didn't know it could be used for someone who moved to another country permanently.
I know a couple who did this for years -- move to another country for a job, move back to the USA, repeat. They always used the term expat (she was US citizen, he was Canadian citizen).
(forgot to add that they ended up back in the USA)
Anyway, I've learned something new!
@ahimsa_pdx that's the correct meaning of expat, you're not wrong. The problem is that most people who call themselves - and are generally referred to - as expats are skilled immigrants that moved into another European country for good (this is obviously my EU-centric POV).
However most of them would probably find the term "skilled immigrant" almost offensive so that's not used anywhere... except on the related government pages which are absolutely blunt about it (see screenshot).
@gabrielesvelto @ahimsa_pdx
Sigh, I don't think that expat is much of a term in non-English languages at all.
And EU citizens are in a way, not really immigrants in EU countries., differently from “immigrants”, they basically come with a right to live/work/… anywhere in the EU.
It's basically a language problem, that's how we got the "3rd country" term: EU citizens are not completely like natives, but they are certainly even more different from foreigners.
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