You are not an expat in the country you are currently in. You are an expat in the country you left.
If you're in a foreign country, you're either an immigrant (as a generic term) or, if you want to get pedantic, you can use whatever more apt definition they have (visitor, migrant worker, non-immigrant, etc).
Immigrants and expats are overlapping terms, but there are some differences in common usage. An immigrant may intend to stay in the host country permanently and make it their new home, while an expat just happens to live there for the moment, often for a specific purpose. Expats are often more privileged than immigrants. An immigrant may seek to integrate into the society and the culture, while expats are more likely to have a purely transactional relationship with the host country.
I agree with your characterization of expats as typically being more privileged, and the context you give.
That said, it is expat and emigrant that overlap, not immigrant and expat.
An expat is someone who has left his country, with varying degrees of permanence and volition. Eg: to be exiled is to be expatriated by force.
Absurd example: you could technically be an expat without immigrating (or visiting) any other country if you kept to international waters (or unclaimed space?).
The distinction between "expat" and "immigrant" is made by governments as well. Example: as someone who over time held multiple non-immigrant and dual-purpose visas, became an immigrant (permanent resident), then naturalized, I can tell you "expat" was nowhere to be found on the dozens of INS and USCIS forms I've had to fill out. It was never a status I could apply for or one I was given. On the other hand: the US embassy, and my home country's embassy, do offer me "expat services" where I currently live.
I wonder what kind of audience split there is on HN when it comes to "marketing" "tools".
Whenever I see posts like this one, all I think is "great, more spam in my inboxes", and I gut-feel like the overwhelming majority of people think similarly.
I assume there are people (maybe "founders"?) who see things like this in a different light, but how many?
I really liked the concept of BAT but the reality left me wanting.
Things like "we'll hang on to the tokens of sites that don't use BAT yet for them until they join" gave negative vibes.
It all felt a little underbaked. I swing back to Brave once in a blue moon and then remember I've got at least $20's worth of BAT lost forever somewhere.
I'm not a big fan of it or anything, it's just the only crypto I know that was targeting that idea.
I'd love if there was another one that was totally open and just a browser extension away. But I do not think it would ever get off the ground because...
People love the ad model and hate paying for things.
For some reason, this made me think of the countdown timer in Galaxy Quest that counts down but stops before getting to zero because the ship's design is based on a TV show.
I find it a bit disingenuous that you chose to quote those two bits while ignoring the words between the two:
> and I find it difficult to fully encapsulate or even identify the essence between the two, because the more you know, the more you know what little you know
Yes, that sentence in full is disclaiming they know it all after claiming they know it all in a seeming attempt to invalidate the author’s account. It is not strictly accurate to say they are not claiming that; what you are pointing out is that they are also disclaiming it. I do not see how that is an improvement.
No. You are just not paying attention or just resorting to weather typical abusive manipulative tactics. I did not claim to know it all, I simply stated that I have that experience and it is not an exaggeration. I nor you will ever “know it all”, regardless of whatever compels you to be spiteful and seemingly jealous.
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