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]

can't take a position on this as every country marks me as an immigrant cuz 'expat' is usually for Teh Ang Mohs. Bleh.

Not to mention I find expat/foreigner comms in general to be very unfriendly to the kind of thinky things we like (even damn-foreigners, though it seems niceish I am leery).

[littlebutfierce]

I think you want this post? (If there are other places where people are talking about this I'd like to see too.)

I'd join, if only to have another place to gripe w/people who would probably get it--though I would be wary if it ended up being, say, mostly white USians in there.

[futuransky]

FWIW (and I'm not sure how much that is!) I would be fascinated by goings on in such a comm, though elements of it would also make me feel weird... you can probably triangulate exactly how and why from things people like me say about the US.