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RE: The Difference Between an Expat & an Immigrant

in #politics6 years ago
  • Emigrant: Anyone who leaves his country.

  • Immigrant: Anyone who arrives in a foreign country.

  • Migrant: Anyone who moves from one country to another.

Expat is literally an emigrant synonym. If you are a Mexican in the United States for example. In the United States, you will be an immigrant. In Mexico you will be an emigrant or expatriate. And in general, for statistics, you will be a migrant.

It is evident that for the United States and Europe, expatriates are white, because they are mostly white, and that immigrants are multiracial, because other continents are multiracial. Africa is mostly black, and Latin America is mostly mestizo or Amerindian.

In Latin America, where I live, Europeans are called immigrants, because they are not from here, and Latin Americans who leave their countries are recognized as emigrants or expatriates. In Venezuela, it is said that expatriates must return, that is, to the Venezuelans who left the country due to the crisis. These expatriates are not necessarily white, only a minority is, because the word has no racial connotation.

It seems to me that the only ones who are being racist, and who are having a eurocentric vision of the world, are The Guardian and the MSM.

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Bang on, logical and straight-cut comment!

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