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.

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[azuire]

my family doesn't work in diplomacy/military-related things so we are all in that uneasy limbo between expat & immigrant. my father likes to call us 'everybody's minority', even though class wise we'd qualify as expats in transition to becoming diaspora. it be complicated!

[rhivolution]

Indeed. There aren't good words for it, really. We must make our own language?

[azuire]

uhm. expigrants? immipats? ahahaha.

[mercredigirl]

I am ZOMG at the idea that 'expat' means a different thing outside of SEAsia (i.e. MNC-posted worker from overseas).

[mercredigirl]

iono by SG standards you're expat classwise, though I know how a lot of people would mark you as immigrant because of race. ('Expat' tends to be saved for white people? But if you've been here a long while you're a resident...? *thinks of Kyle, who isn't really white anyway*)