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Started by Syt, January 18, 2020, 09:36:09 AM

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garbon

Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2020, 03:24:48 AM
Also that some fashion designer held a fashion show with no audience and live streamed it.

That makes it sound like a performance art piece. :P

Giorgio Armani told people not to come because of the coronavirus but still had the show available for people to watch online.
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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Tamas


Maladict

Two cases in Austrian Tyrol. This could be a prime opportunity to cull everyone on skiing holidays.

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Syt

Two confirmed cases in Austria: two Italians in Tirol. :ph34r:
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Tamas

Quote from: The GuardianExpatriates in Italy have told of confusion and apocalyptic scenes in the north of the country, as it battles to contain the coronavirus which now appears to have spread to the south.

Jodie, a beautician who has lived in Dolo between Venice and Padua for 15 years, said that the atmosphere is strange and "no one knows what is going to happen"

Reminded me how racist the term "expat" is. Live 15 bloody years in Italy but she is an "expat" because she is British so obvs she can't be labelled an "immigrant" that's a nasty word!

celedhring

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First case in peninsular Spain.  Woman from Barcelona that had traveled to northern Italy.

Honestly I'm not too scared of getting it myself, but I absolutely don't want to pass this shit to my parents.

viper37

Quote from: Tamas on February 25, 2020, 08:54:29 AM
Quote from: The GuardianExpatriates in Italy have told of confusion and apocalyptic scenes in the north of the country, as it battles to contain the coronavirus which now appears to have spread to the south.

Jodie, a beautician who has lived in Dolo between Venice and Padua for 15 years, said that the atmosphere is strange and "no one knows what is going to happen"

Reminded me how racist the term "expat" is. Live 15 bloody years in Italy but she is an "expat" because she is British so obvs she can't be labelled an "immigrant" that's a nasty word!

Depends.  To me, an immigrant is someone who has or seek to obtain citizenship in their new country.  An expat is someone working in a country while always keeping his own nationality.  I don't see it as racist.
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Expats are immigrants from cool countries/ethnicities.

Valmy

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Quote from: viper37 on February 25, 2020, 10:08:35 AM
An expat is someone working in a country while always keeping his own nationality.  I don't see it as racist.

Plenty of Mexicans work here without ever intending to become US Citizens, they send money home and will eventually go back home. I have never heard them described as expats before, to be fair to Tamas :lol:

"illegal expats"

Even legal ones are often called "guest workers" or something not expats. You have to be special to get called an expat. I am sure there is an expat Mexican community but they are elites and educated types.
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Traditionnally, expat was somebody sent by a company to another country. Guess what, this was mostly for executive/management positions and temporary.
Immigrant was more of an individual choice, not executive/management jobs, with an individual leaving for another country for good, often without a job contract. "Guest workers" being a special case having one but initially not intended to stay.
So yes, European immigrants do exist.

Tamas

Quote from: celedhring on February 25, 2020, 09:53:06 AM
First case in peninsular Spain.  Woman from Barcelona that had traveled to northern Italy.

Honestly I'm not too scared of getting it myself, but I absolutely don't want to pass this shit to my parents.

Yeah, same. I'd guess I have reasonable survival chances even if I get it, but as I mentioned, I am rather worried about unknowingly carrying it home to my 1.5 years niece or my my near-100 grandma.

Tamas


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Ex-pats are people from one's own country living abroad. Immigrants are people from other countries living in yours.
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