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		dontlaugh on April 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Back to India And yet Americans in Germany are called expats, but Eastern Europeans or Africans or Middle Easterners in Germany are called immigrants.

igorkraw on April 12, 2022 [–]

Are they? I have a couple of Russian expat friends on Switzerland and Germany. This might be my bubble and I appreciate your calling out a bias in who we think of as "foreign" but I'm not sure it's this clean cut

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