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

[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. :)