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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[rhivolution]

Oh, I can understand that! I'm sorta the same way about the US, but then I worry that I get splainey in response (not saying you'd do that, just saying I worry about myself)...

[futuransky]

Yeah -- I would probably not allow myself to comment much, and read it only occasionally, for that reason, but the perspective would be welcome after having spent so long mentally ranting at [Bad username or unknown identity: brits_americans"] and other expat comms...

[littlebutfierce]

I would personally feel uncomfortable if I knew that UK natives were coming to gawk/'splain in such a comm & wouldn't post if I knew that was happening. :/