Really nice updates. Start button gives you time to read through the "rules" of the quiz without burning time, and the notification of # of points, both on the quiz and overall lets you know how you did (assuming a less than perfect score) without having to go find the Quiz again in the Stats. Great Job!!!!
I would think that many of these people originate from these countries and have managed to get some sort of regular payment from USA and now prefer to live back "Home'.
Apparently, a fair number of them ARE illegals but the Mexican government's attitude is "Meh, they're not bothering anyone. We'll deal with the paperwork when we get to it."
For the latest update, I reduced the number of countries from 20 to 14. The Wikipedia article has incomplete data, so I'm a little less confident of its accuracy below the top few countries.
Close. Wikipedia: "An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their citizenship."
So an American expat in Mexico could be, as I said, born in the USA to Mexican parents, meaning that they have US citizenship but then emigrated to the country of their parents' birth. They could also be what Malbaby said, assuming that they were born in Mexico, emigrated to the USA, were naturalized there to gain citizenship, and then returned to Mexico. Which happens. Though I think what I said is more common and more likely.
Why make a relevant comment that people might gain something from reading when you could passive aggressively snipe at someone you have a silly gripe with by implying something that's not even accurate?
Also, why use a question mark at the end of an interrogative sentence when you could save pixels and use a period.
you admitted in the comments section of another quiz that you were going to make it your mission on this site to follow me around and pester me on every quiz that you could as often as you could until some of your harrassment got through moderation. Why don't you tell us who else you were directing the above comment at, then? (lie) There are no plausible alternatives.
Here's an interesting question: Does the data you used take dual citizenship into account? (It seems like it could definitely skew the data in a country like Canada, where there are a ton of dual citizens.) To wit: if the data is just counting American citizens abroad, it would count me as an expat in Canada if I was living there. But if I had dual citizenship, I'd really just be hanging out in the country of my citizenship, i.e., I'm not actually an Ametican "expat". (I assume though, that it *does* take into account U.S. citizenship renunciation.)
I wish that's how immigration actually worked. I can think of several people that America would do well to send somewhere else, who commit more crimes (including those that Mexicans were accused of) and steal more resources from the government than any Mexican ever has. One of them is orange. If only we could find some other country that was willing to take him.
When my great grandmother (white) came over from Ireland, she was an immigrant. When James Baldwin (black) went to live in France, he was an expat.
The issue isn't color, it's class and status. Who has money and who needs a job? Does the country where you settle view your journey as a favor to them or a favor to you?
This is still a type of bigotry, of course. It just doesn't happen to be racially based.
No, you're an immigrant if it is a permanent move, an expat is usually someone who is working overseas temporarily - may also include retirees who maintain their citizenship for whatever reason
I think the figure for American expats in Israel may be skewed. That number must include people with dual citizenship, in which case, they are not expats as they live here in Israel permanently as Israelis.
So an American expat in Mexico could be, as I said, born in the USA to Mexican parents, meaning that they have US citizenship but then emigrated to the country of their parents' birth. They could also be what Malbaby said, assuming that they were born in Mexico, emigrated to the USA, were naturalized there to gain citizenship, and then returned to Mexico. Which happens. Though I think what I said is more common and more likely.
Also, why use a question mark at the end of an interrogative sentence when you could save pixels and use a period.
Couldn't help it. I'm sorry.
US Ambassador to Saudi said that recently regarding coronavirus outbreak:
https://twitter.com/CICSaudi/status/1246126656663756800
(For clarity, I don't agree with this distinction, but that's how it's mostly postulated)
The issue isn't color, it's class and status. Who has money and who needs a job? Does the country where you settle view your journey as a favor to them or a favor to you?
This is still a type of bigotry, of course. It just doesn't happen to be racially based.
After that, the US continued to house multiple military bases in the Philippines up to the present day.
There have been a lot of US servicemen over the last 100 years that spent many years there and decided to retire there.