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Interesting that they use the word expat instead of immigrant. I don't think if these two were from Asia/Africa they would have been called expats.

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It's pretty well known that (relatively affluent) white immigrants are called expats instead of immigrants.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jnylander/2015/04/03/in-china-wh...

Eh - no. I was a 'brown' person living in the middle east and called an expat.

Expat implies an intent to return or a temporary worker and is a frequently used term in the middle east/asia. E.g https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-25/expat-fee...

Not everything has to be viewed from an SJW angle

I never said brown people can't be called expats. Your defensiveness regarding that is more SJW than my original post, which just cited a few articles.

To be honest expat does not necessarily imply a permanent move

>I don't think if these two were from Asia/Africa they would have been called expats.

And you base that on....? Why do people search for injustice?

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.[0]

-MLK

[0]: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....

The left has been teaching people to believe they are victims for more than a decade now. That's why they search for injustice.

If you think the victim mentality is limited to the left, you've obviously not being paying attention to the alt right or Christian conservatives.

The true alt-right is tiny. Well, since alt-right has been defined to include white supremacy, anyway.

The left is huge.

Actually most western European countries have 'expat programs' for eastern European countries with job offerings mostly as babysitters/valets/waiters.

They're intended for young people & the stay is between 6 months & 2 years.

In that context 'expats' is used for temporal residence in foreign countries with no intentions to be made permanent. It's mostly intended for young people to travel around, not much for the financial benefit.

So in my understanding it's the intentions which define, not skin color / continents.

PS. The written above is a definition from my personal point of view :)

If they were working in a coffee shop, they would also be called immigrants.

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