Ignorant self-entitled pricks apparently.
Bit provocative there methinks.
In the Canaries, Brits and Northen European visitors and residents are called Guidi's and in Andalucia, Guiri's. It is a term referring to fair skinned people who put handkerchiefs on their heads as protection from the sun, don't bother to use sun cream and wear socks with sandals. Possibly racist, but usually just a piss take.
They call us by our names here.
To your face.
Maybe. I get bought enough drinks to suggest you are wrong.
That's perhaps because you're anyones after a shandy.
If you say so.
That depends on which way you look at it. I am a proud immigrant in Italy.
I get the point but surely it's just that both terms are being used from a UK-centric position?
Poor you! That must be terrible for you, people mocking you for your appearance. I should have a stern word with them, demand they kneel down and clench their fists, to say sorry.
Maybe, but is it a deliberate attempt to distort our thinking? Surely you would use the term emigrant for one and immigrant for the other.
Actually, you're right here. The manipulation is often in the language.
I remember arriving in southern Italy to spend three weeks with my Italian girlfriend, and the scandal it caused within the small town. Quite amazing, the whole thing. (I'll tell you about it sometime RVL)I think it often is, I guess my point is that if you are talking about the UK, it doesn't make sense to call someone who has left to live/work elsewhere an immigrant. Personally I wouldn't see that using 'emigrant' rather than 'expatriate' is a great distinction. But of course you're right that the language choices are loaded in many cases. Is there an alternative word to 'immigrant' that wouldn't be seen to have negative connotations?
