Queer Lit Cats · @QLC
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PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
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My family can relate to this article.

( refers to a that feel when living away from their country. When their nation trudges through periods of and , expatriates witnessing their nation suffer, unable to help, suffer in solidarity with their countrymen; while some feel helpless, others are empowered to cause change.)

thevarsity.ca/2023/03/19/after

#diaspora #guilt #culpability #expatriates #crisis #instability #asianmastodon #displacement #disconnected #familyties #bipoc #poc

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Japanned Steve McCarty · @SteveMcCarty
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Regarding Japan's longstanding ban on dual , an Asahi Shimbun editorial asahi.com/ajw/articles/1484632 is fine as far as it goes, but it focuses on the type of in who are suspected of changing to evade taxes. To us in , it is more important that our half-Japanese "haafu" kids and others should not feel forced to choose one cultural allegiance simply because is not recognized or understood here. See "Dual Nationality in Japan: Learning to Love Ambiguity" at academia.edu/38566597 or shingetsunewsagency.com/2019/0
The law is not enforced in Japan, so it can be like a joke that vaccination makes three passports. Our happy-go-lucky sons have no conception of what it would be like to be an outsider or to agonize over their cultural .
Once I tried to explain "What it Means to Be Bicultural" - at academia.edu/36008217 or childresearch.net/papers/langu
How about this issue in your country or region?
@Bilingualism

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I’ve been flying the St Andrew’s Cross Scottish flag on my house since that independence referendum in… 2013 (?).

Should Scotland goes independent, I am totally going to look into what it takes to move there, not just visit. But a visit, first, of course!

#expatriates #scottishhighlands #scotland

Last updated 2 years ago

I’ve been flying the St Andrew’s Cross Scottish flag on my house since that independence referendum in… 2013 (?).

Should Scotland goes independent, I am totally going to look into what it takes to move there, not just visit. But a visit, first, of course!

#expatriates #scottishhighlands #scotland

Last updated 2 years ago