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>> No. 3603 Anonymous
17th September 2021
Friday 8:38 pm
3603 Thailand
I’m moving to Thailand soon, I’ve spent a few months the there, and years in other Asian countries with similar climates and cultures, so I’m not too worried. Any experience of living and working there?
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>> No. 3604 Anonymous
17th September 2021
Friday 10:49 pm
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Are you >>>/b/446216 as well?
>> No. 3605 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 4:04 pm
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>>3604

One lad is a fledgling sex tourist, the other is a. Expat.
>> No. 3606 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 7:30 pm
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>>3605
>expat
I love how we're too far above using the word immigrant when it applies to Brits.
>> No. 3607 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 7:49 pm
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>>3606

Because they're not immigrants, they have emigrated from here. Immigrant applies to someone coming here.

If you were a Thai person in Thailand you could call them immigrants. And you'd call a Thai person living here an expat.
>> No. 3608 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 8:03 pm
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>>3607
You know what he meant; and it's a valid point.
>> No. 3609 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 8:13 pm
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>>3608
'Expat' tends to be used for people who have emigrated from more economically developed countries to less economically developed countries, and 'immigrant' the opposite. Let's just gloss over the subtle jab at immigrants from >>3606.
>> No. 3610 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 8:15 pm
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>>3608

Yes, I do know what he meant, the trouble is it's not a valid point. That's the point.

Sure, we could start calling anyone who moves from one country to another an immigrant if it makes somebody somewhere feel better about themselves. But that would still be technically incorrect, and the iron laws of literacy are far more important than such petty nonsense.
>> No. 3611 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 8:35 pm
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>>3609
>>3610
An expat is an immigrant, an immigrant is a "permanent" expat. There's no difference, but one is obviously much less offensive to one's ego.
>> No. 3612 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 8:46 pm
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>>3611
I'm not calling a Canadian living here an expatriate, that's nonsensical. Not him, I just can't stand righteous little jabs like these from people who don't know what they're talking about.

There are British expats spreading the light of civilization and then there's everyone else. Unless I'm writing something from the perspective of a foreign government e.g. 'Australia has a problem with their expats'.
>> No. 3613 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 9:25 pm
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Whatever happened to "emigrant"?

Also, if the news is anything to go by, you're not allowed to say immigrant any more; it's "migrant" or nothing. I assumed this was because the people in the Channel have not arrived here yet, and therefore have not immigrated here yet, and are therefore still mid-migration. They're migrants until they arrive. And the OP has not immigrated into Thailand yet, and therefore he is not an immigrant.

"Expat" is an abbreviation, rather than a full word, and is therefore automatically wrong to write.
>> No. 3614 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 9:29 pm
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>>3611

There's im-migrants (im, from the old Norse meaning "aaa-a-aaaaah-ahh") and e-migrants (like e-waste.)

Expat is just a better sounding word than emigrant, as we know due to the Council of the English Language unanimously declaring it to be the correct one.
>> No. 3615 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 9:34 am
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Maybe it's just me and my collection of odd prejudices, but I'd like nothing less than to be an "Expat" were I to move to one of the nice first world former dominion type places. Call me British, call me English, call me Canadian, call me Australian, call me an emigrant, call me an immigrant, call me a cunt, all fine and good, but for some reason I'd draw the line at expat.

My guess as to why Is that I interpret it as marking a certain failure to integrate, a badge that says something like "you physically live in this country, but if anyone asks you tell them you're not with us.", an uncomfortable situation where Britain has stopped being home but the other country hasn't become a new home.
>> No. 3616 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 9:36 am
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I wouldn't be too worried about being called an "expat" if I moved to a foreign country because it's an English word and they'd speak a different language there anyway.
>> No. 3617 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 9:59 am
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>>3616
It really doesn't matter, it's just people looking for something to get their knickers in a twist about.
>> No. 3618 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 10:26 am
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>>3615

It's just a word to describe something, it has no real connotations itself and to my eye has never been used to imply something negtive on its own.

Though I do find it interesting that we don't call the romanian, polish, indian etc etc folk who have moved here expats. They are exclusively immigrants.
>> No. 3619 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 1:10 pm
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Why are you lot arguing about this, it's simple as fuck.

If you're white and speak English you can go anywhere you want an be an expat.
If you're not, that means you're an immigrant.
>> No. 3620 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 1:33 pm
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>>3615
It does seem a uniquely British trait for us to move abroad and create our own ghettos. Makes me wonder if we're a disproportionate part of the foreign population in the Gulf States where spoilt castes are the enforced norm.

>>3618
Have you ever heard the term 'American expat' being used here by a native, EVER?
>> No. 3621 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 1:42 pm
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>>3619
I'd consider Polish people to be 'white' for example, and they're still taking my millions of jobs, so I think you may be missing the mark a bit.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/mar/13/white-people-expats-immigrants-migration

>Africans are immigrants. Arabs are immigrants. Asians are immigrants. However, Europeans are expats because they can’t be at the same level as other ethnicities. They are superior. Immigrants is a term set aside for ‘inferior races’.

>The reality is the same in Africa and Europe. Top African professionals going to work in Europe are not considered expats. They are immigrants. Period. “I work for multinational organisations both in the private and public sectors. And being black or coloured doesn’t gain me the term “expat”. I’m a highly qualified immigrant, as they call me, to be politically correct,” says an African migrant worker.

Is the gent in question called an expat in whichever part of this 'Africa' place he's from? Now I'm wondering if other countries/languages have a term for immigrants-from-our-sphere and we're too busy with this to know.
>> No. 3622 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 1:45 pm
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>>3620
>It does seem a uniquely British trait for us to move abroad and create our own ghettos.

I take it you've never been to somewhere like Bradford? There's plenty of enclaves within this country. Most large cities will also have a Chinatown area.
>> No. 3623 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 2:35 pm
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>>3621
>I'd consider Polish people to be 'white' for example, and they're still taking my millions of jobs, so I think you may be missing the mark a bit.
They have funny accents though.
>> No. 3624 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 3:01 pm
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>>3622
You're missing that these groups still interact with wider society, speak the language and don't hive themselves off inside gated communities like we do in Spain.
>> No. 3625 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 3:07 pm
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>>3624
I take it you haven't been to Bradford then.
>> No. 3626 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 7:28 pm
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Nice to see the spirit of Simon is alive and well. What’s he up to these days?
>> No. 3627 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 3:50 am
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>>3625

It sounds like you haven't. I lived there.
>> No. 3628 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 4:13 am
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>>3618

>we don't call the romanian, polish, indian etc etc folk who have moved here expats.

That's because we're the country they immigrated to, we're not the country they were expatriated from. If we were Romanian, Polish or Indian or etc etc we'd call them expats, because they are expatriates of our country.

If you were an Indian and your brother moved to Britain, you wouldn't call your brother an immigrant, that would make no sense. You'd call him an expat. He emmigrated from India to Britain, becoming an Indian expat. If you were that man's British landlord you'd call him an immigrant. He immigrated to Britain from India. He is an Indian immigrant.

It's literally like the word implode and explode. One is for in, one is for out.

Stop trying to stick politics in like the camera man in a porno coming over to shove his cock in.
>> No. 3629 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 4:44 am
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>>3628

Nothing to do with politics you fucking moron.

I'd call a polish bloke a polish expat if he lived here, why not?
>> No. 3630 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 7:12 am
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>>3629

Because that would be wrong. Do you go around saying everything the wrong way round?

"Just taking the kettle off" when you put it on to boil? "Just taking my clothes off" when you're getting dressed? "Just going to sleep" when you wake up?
>> No. 3631 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 9:09 am
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>>3628
>>3630

You're right in that expat/immigrant is (or can be seen as) relative; a matter of perspective.
But every single one of the examples you've given are wrong.
You've apparently been awake all night so I'll forgive you that.
>> No. 3632 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 10:44 am
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>>3630

You saw that I said 'polish expat', right? The modifier makes it make perfect sense.

Not that the actual definition of expat relies at all on the perspective or direction of travel. Expatriate means exactly what it sounds like it means.
>> No. 3633 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 4:57 pm
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>>3632

But do you live in Poland?
>> No. 3634 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 5:11 pm
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I've just heard back from the Home Office and they're saying it doesn't matter what you call yourselves, none of you are allowed abroad for fear you'll fatally embarrass the country with your endless pedantry.
>> No. 3635 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 6:49 pm
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Why are you lot having a cunt-off?

Anyone from the western world setting up ghettos anywhere else in the world = "Expat."
Anything else = Immigrant.
>> No. 3636 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 7:55 pm
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>>3635
>Why are you lot having a cunt-off?
It's what we do.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
We're both cunts
And so are you
>> No. 3637 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 8:48 pm
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>>3633

"Polish expat" clearly means an expat from/of poland. That's really basic English.
>> No. 3638 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>3635
> Why are you lot having a cunt-off?
Why shouldn't we, you pillock!
>> No. 3639 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>3637

And "Irish ex-pat" means she's Saoirse now.
>> No. 3640 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 8:56 pm
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>>3637
I just typed Polish Expat in Google. Mirth.

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