expatriate

“India relies perhaps more heavily than any other emerging economic power on remittances from its expatriate workers abroad. The perception of excellence enjoyed by its expatriate professionals overseas is a source of patriotic pride at home.” an excerpt from International Herald Tribune.
I wonder if Mexico is not ahead of India but two words stand out– ‘expatriate’ and ‘emerging.’
It is doubtful that Mexico would be considered an emerging nation, unless the U.S. were to legal any Mexican immigrant who sought a green card. And the immigrant workers are not expatriates. They are migrant workers for the most part. They do not assimilate and would probably not assimilate into the culture during the first generation.
What is an expatriate? It holds the lore of being romantic. Research would probably show that many expatriates are outcast rather than philosophical ideologs who move rather than bend to the majority.
A wiki definition: “Expatriate can just as well be used to describe any person living in a country other than where they hold citizenship, but is generally not used for government officials stationed in a foreign country.” By that, the illegal aliens are expatriates.
But are they really? Are the Indians living in England, who now fear that the recent failed terrorist attacks will diminish their ability to work abroad. According the Tribune article, they send money home which keeps the Indian economy afloat. That is true also of the Mexican workers.
The difference for most of the Indians is they are professionals, while the Mexicans are laborers. That is no way discounts the hispanics’s humanity just differentiating the two groups. The Indians for the most part are on work permits in the UK. It difficult to get a work permit in the UK. Much the same as it is in the U.S. Professional or high tech people are the recipients of work visas or permits in both countries.
If the pear gets elected I will seek to become an expatriate. My prediction– “it will be the worst four years in American history.” And you can quote me on that.
Why leave a country which has given me so much? The culture of today does not hold much for me. I am radically anti-multicultural, I am anti-socialism, I am anti-big government. I am pro-family, pro-life, pro-gun, pro states rights, pro local government and pro isolationism.
I have been demonized or at least my beliefs have been for the last 30 years. It will not get better as the move to socialize the U.S. grows stronger with the arrival of minority control of the electorate. While there are today less racial minority citizens, which changes in the next 50 years, the blocks of feminists, ethnics, gender benders, and the other splinter groups have united under one party.
The offshoot of that is cultural change to satisfy each block through legislation. But to make the cultural changes necessary to satiate the growing minority groups, taxation will be necessary to support social programs. With a majority in both legislative branches and the executive branch only the judicial branch stands in the way of radical change.
The majority now stands as conservative but with the incoming group of power mongers, there will be relentless assaults on any resistance to change. Doubt it. Look at the political rhetoric since feminism came into power. Both parties have adapted the policy of demonization.
When one cannot find an appropriate response attack the other party. That’s not debate, that’s verbal terrorism.
If the U.S. continues to slide into multicultural decay, then why be a part of it. Reaching the age of retirement, there is no good reason to comply- not for money, nor love, nor country. Better than fighting the inevitable.
What will I miss– my family.
The things that I miss have already died. Safety, community, tradition, morality all died in my opinion a long time ago. Not through one dramatic act of government, but through the slow changes in our society. The only vehicle remaining to be put in place is socialism. A society which requires redistribution of wealth to support the majority of its unemployed population. That spells Clintonism or in my opinion socialism.
Will I miss it. The deserts, the plains, the forests, the mountains, my favorite spots. Most of my favorite people are dead or dying. The ones remaining can travel to see me if they choose.
Reality becomes obvious if one is willing to look.