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  • @Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    103 days ago

    It’s semantics but the difference between expat and immigrants is an expat intends to return to their home country some day, where an immigrant does not.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉
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      93 days ago

      it’s racism

      if a westerner works with plans to return they are called expat, if it’s a non western, they are called migrants labour or foreign workers and are treated like shit.

      • @Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        33 days ago

        they dont like to be called immigrants, because then they would have to be labeled like the “brown people” they say have hawking over.

    • @theherk@lemmy.world
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      63 days ago

      Yes, but connotatively it is just a marker of privilege. Especially here, since what we’re talking about is immigration, not temporary work.