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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 13:34:00 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   you're not an American-living-abroad. you're a migrant. an American migrant. same with the UK. fuck with that expat bullshit. you're a migrant.

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 13:34:00 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     there is a reason i use MIGRANT, instead of the jingoistic immigrant.

     humans have alway migrated. we are primates. most primates, even gorillas, would move around more freely if humans had not destroyed most of our habitats.

     it's natural for humans to migrate.

     colonialism + imperialism + capitalism + racism have destroyed much of our natural migratory patterns.

     no, it’s not civilization or modernity that made us evolve into sedentary beings.

     the cult of exploitation & genocide did that.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 16:29:46 JST clacke

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     @zmh @blogdiva People who call themselves expats are embracing the privilege and asserting that they're better and have a stronger right to be there than the people they call migrants.
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     zmh (zmh@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 16:29:47 JST zmh

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     @blogdiva for me the distinction is between coming from a richer (expat) or poorer country (migrant). So your experience in arriving somewhere new is quite different (and the way you relate to the society you are now a part of). You can change the way you call them, but the privilege will still be there.

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 16:32:02 JST Antiqueight

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     @blogdiva You can be a migrant, or an ex-pat and migrant. An ex-pat usually has complicated tax arrangements because they are employed in the home country but working in the other country. But all have migrated. Some temporarily and some permanently. Sometimes people think they have moved permanently and that changes or even the inverse.

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     砂漠人 :hyogo: x 🏜️ (sleepytako@famichiki.jp)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:42:23 JST 砂漠人 :hyogo: x 🏜️

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     @blogdiva "The Expat Community" is always the least connected migrant community in any host nation. Why can't these "expats" learn the local language and traditions!

     Or.

     No dude who drove here from Rokko Island, we don't have parking for our bar.

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     David Jaša (djasa@cztwitter.cz)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:42:30 JST David Jaša

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     @blogdiva
     Ah, "British expats and EU migrants" vibe
     @25kV

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     JustAFrog (justafrog@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:42:35 JST JustAFrog

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     @blogdiva Expat really does mean "migrant but not one of those".

     Never seen a good case that it means anything else.

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     Harries (harries@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 01:12:57 JST Harries

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     @blogdiva Bespoke colonialist surely!

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     Amy (She/Her) (eco_amandine@mastodon.cr)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 01:13:12 JST Amy (She/Her)

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     @consumablejoy @blogdiva @LilPecan I know people from Central America who has been to the US as illegal migrants. They save money to build a house and start a small business, come back to their country, then marry and continue with their lives. They're not "on a mission" with some company but they're in a temporary situation as well, working for big bakeries or in restaurant's kitchens. And they're not called "expats", because they're not from a rich country.

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     consumableJoy (consumablejoy@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 01:13:13 JST consumableJoy

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     • Piggleston Pecanpants

     @blogdiva @LilPecan I’ve always thought of expat as temporary, and potentially not really by choice but rather by assignment from your company, with the intent to go back to your original country. Retaining your original citizenship. And potentially with really unfortunate tax implications of your working situation. I’ve always thought of “migrant” as “hope for permanency”