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honestly missionaries are evil. the idea of traveling the world to tell people Who Didnt Fucking Ask that their beliefs are wrong in the hopes that theyll adopt your beliefs seems sinister

The Christians in the notes whining are so absolutely stupid

I don’t even want to talk about how they specifically target poor people and hold basic necessities over their heads in exchange for faith.

“I read about an [Inuit] hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘Not if you did not know.’

‘Then why,’ asked the [Inuit] earnestly, ‘did you tell me?” -Annie Dillard

(edited to remove slurs/dated language)

My culture and our religious practices (Inuit) have been decimated by Christianity and I fucking hate pretending its a neutral thing.

Christians in the notes still don’t get it. They’re saying that missionaries aren’t that bad bc they’re just trying to save all ppl and they’ve started quoting bible verses and whatnot but here’s the thing: I. Don’t. Believe. In. That. Like your beliefs and scriptures are non applicable to me (and everyone else who isn’t Christian, or at least abrahamic) bc we’re not christian and I literally don’t care if you think we “need to be saved from Satan” or smg bc frankly, it’s not your business and that “well meaning, innocent” intention is still forcing your religion onto us. OP is right. Missionaries are evil. Leave other religions tf alone.

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I know people won't care because you all assume every country that isn't in the west is automatically homophobic and/or transphobic, but enshrining this bigotry into law, enabling more institutional and state violence is making my heart weep.

for those who do care, Silent Majority is actively fighting against this bill and I do hope people can support them.

the dichotomy between the "immigrant" (someone from the global south who moves to the north) and the "expat" (someone from the global north who moves to the south) makes me feel fucking crazy. a white person who moves to asia is an expat but an asian who moves to the west is an immigrant. & how those terms are politicized and assigned class statuses, like the word "immigrant" tends to imply a blue collar worker (even if that isn't the case) while "expat" implies a white collar worker. the associations with "expat neighbourhoods" in asian countries is very very different from those of "immigrant neighbourhoods" in western nations. also how "immigrants" who dont assimilate are seen as "failing" and bad, lower class, a burden on society, etc. whereas "expats" not assimilating into local culture is expected and viewed as a sign of their higher status. the double standards are so insane

Non-native english speaker here;

I always thought that expat or immigrant is used depending on the perspective?

Like if a german moved to the UK, germans would call them an expat and the english would call them an immigrant?

It can work like that - there are technical definitions for "expat" and "immigrant" that don't necessarily = how they are used colloquially by people from country to country. Expat is short for 'expatriate' which just means 'someone who leaves their country of origin to live elsewhere', whereas immigrant means 'someone who moves to a foreign country to live permanently.' So all immigrants are expats but not all expats are immigrants.

Like in your example, if you wanted to talk about Germans who move overseas regardless of where they move to or why or how long, you could say "German expats." But if you are talking about Germans who move to the UK permanently they are immigrants.

In a similar vein, someone who moved away from Germany is an emigrant, someone who moved to Germany is an immigrant. It's a small contextual thing. Put another way: if I'm talking about people who leave a country, they are emigrating from that country. If I'm talking about people who move to a country, they are immigrating to that country. Ex. "People emigrating from Ireland" VS "People immigrating to Ghana"

However, these words aren't necessarily used that way in casual/daily speech, where they take on cultural associations that imply things like race, national origin, economic class, etc. These associations vary from country to country but speaking about Southeast Asia as a region (because that is what I'm familiar with), people from the global north who move to Southeast Asia whether temporarily or permanently are usually called "expats", and "expat communities" have specific connotations that are very different from those of "immigrant communities" which is what I'm talking about in this post. The literal definitions of these words have additional meaning here. A Westerner living in Southeast Asia will very rarely if ever be called an immigrant, even if that's what they are on paper, because that word is not associated with Westerners. This is the case elsewhere, in varying degrees/ways, in Central and South America as well as in Africa. The specific ways these terms vary from country to country in these regions I'm less familiar with.

Further, in the West, when people talk about 'immigrants' in a political sense they usually are not talking about other Westerners - this varies, of course, depending on the country's concept of 'Western-ness' as well as xenophobia, racism, and classism. Ex. my white Irish grandfather who moved to Canada has never been called an immigrant but my Malaysian Indian father has. My white Canadian mother who moved to Malaysia is called an expat but my father who moved to Canada is called an immigrant. These words clearly have political meanings outside of their technical definitions.

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