it seems to me that the only people who call themselves "ex-pats" are those Americans who constantly refer to the USA while they reside outside the USA. they follow baseball scores and know the stores that sell American products.
i knew many of this type of people in Europe; they lived inside an air bubble, filled with American air. they could be five years in Germany and still not speak any German at all. i felt a bit sorry for them; their lives were in a suspended transition; they lived neither here nor there.
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I was already, but just barely, in Canada when the Grant Park riots occured in Chicago. Interestingly, the man who teaches film studies here at Nipissing is also an ex-pat American who was actually in Grant Park that tumultuous spring. I was still in Chicago for the riots following the assassination of MLK. But I was already in Toronto when Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The US seemed like a sinking ship at the time. We watched the news every night and worried. Probably we didn't worry enough, not recognizing the seeds of today's world. Reading back over that paragraph, I see the word ex-pat. I don't ever see myself that way. I've been Canadian over twice as long as I was ever American.Ursula, musing in the morning sunshine ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.28/518 - Release Date: 11/4/2006
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