DW-only for obvs reasons

Thinky thoughts--if I were to make a community on Dreamwidth for expatriate people in the UK, would anyone join it?

Thing is, there are a bunch of issues here:
- the obviously vastly different experiences for people of different races
- the class/race divide between being expatriate and being immigrant (I saw this referenced recently by someone, had an a-ha moment, but cannot remember where...citation help?)
- the differences in experience due to the places that one is coming from

And since my position is one of a shitload of privilege, being a white lower-middle-class person shifted between two Western English-speaking countries, one of which being the bloody USA...I gotta chew on this one for a while.

And also the issue of Anglophilia, which sometimes can drive me up.the.wall. (sorry Anglophiles.)


...OTly, I am pee-my-pants excited about my Festivids reveal later today. SO EXCITED. I have got more comments on my vid than on any fannish thing I've ever done and I am just plotzing.

VID: Resistance (Star Trek: TNG, gen)

Title: Resistance
Vidder: Rhi (rhivolution/rhipowered)
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Music: Simon and Garfunkel, "The Sound of Silence"
Warnings: Some disturbing images regarding body modification, some violence.
Length: 3:08
Summary: 0.68 seconds -- for an android, nearly an eternity.
Notes: Made in Final Cut Essentials with the help of ffmpegx and VisualHub. For sweetestdrain in Festivids 2010, who asked for a TNG vid focusing on Data. I cheated a little and used First Contact...m'bad. Beta by geekgirl.
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