Core memory unlocked: Looking at a store called “Expat store” or something in that vein in Den Haag as a little boy, asking my parent what “expat” is. “That's an American immigrant.” “So, why are they not just an immigrant?” “That way they feel better about themselves.”

I only just realised how based my parents are.

I always thought expats had to live in little expat communities, keeping themselves aloof from the rest of the population. It's a level of snobbery beyond even still caring where you're originally from. That was my understanding from all the little compounds I saw in the global south.

For those unaware, an expat is an immigrant, but white and racist.

I feel https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/30883044 applied to “expat” as well.

I've always assumed it depends on what your context is. If your perspective is the country that the immigrant is from, then they would be an expat. If you are in context of the other country they are an immigrant.

Ie

"My friend is an expat who went off to The Netherlands." "My friend is an immigrant that came here from The USA."

As an American, I would like to apologize profusely for the rank idiocy of my fellow citizens.

*cries in PVV majority*

Yeah, but a really big part of the MAGA platform is hating on the "communist" and "woke" "yuropoors". She must really really hate it here.

As an American, please enthusiastically tell any American that tries to do this to fuck all the way off and go back to our own shitty country. I don’t want us fucking up your continent too.

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.

Because they live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance.

Everyone in Switzerland has a gun and they don't shoot eachother up. American society is fucked up on multiple different levels

Whenever i mention the Swiss having as many guns as the US, if not more, and yet the former has practically zero mass shooting incidents, and pointed out the problem of America is cultural, Americans tend to turn a blind eye to it.