• Serpent@feddit.uk
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    20 hours ago

    I hate the word for the reasons you’ve said, but I know a lot of black Americans in Portugal that refer to themselves as expats.

    Feels to me that the line is drawn along economic privilege lines rather than simply race.

    • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      15 hours ago

      There’s also this level of like, still identifying as being primarily of the country they’re from, like a rejection of assimilation into the place they’ve moved to. I’m not saying that’s inherently good or bad, but, it’s an interesting dynamic, and an option that a lot of immigrants don’t have.

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        12 hours ago

        an option that a lot of immigrants don’t have.

        Especially when a lot of the same type of people will throw a fit if an ‘immigrant’ doesn’t do everything they can to assimilate.

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          Because these people think they are “better”. So when a wild barbaric immigrant shows up, they want that person to assimilate, but when they move among the unwashed lower folks, they don’t want to assimilate themselves, because it would be a step down in their eyes.

          (I am talking about their view, which I very much despise, just as a clarification)