DW-only for obvs reasons

[rhivolution]

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.

Comments

[futuransky]

I was brought up always to rinse my dishes! You only don't need to if you are going to dry up right away, but we always left things on the rack, we we rinsed -- either under the tap or in a bowl or rinsing water. So it's NOT universal... But maybe there is more of a culture of drying-up immediately in the UK than US?

[littlebutfierce]

Interesting! I've seen pretty much only people putting things on the rack to dry here--I distinctly remember seeing dishes put on w/big clumps on bubbles left on them. But also I don't understand why drying the dishes immediately would make leaving the soap on any different from leaving them to air dry--I can't imagine it really would wipe off all the soap...

[futuransky]

I feel like the soap would get wiped off... somehow dried-on soap feels worse to me. But there may not be logic actually involved in that perception. :)