#Expat

Galtee

BinLimerick

THREAD Aujourd'hui j'ai envie de vous raconter une histoire. Je vais vous parler de ce qui est arrivé à C., une amie proche. On s'est rencontrées il y a 4

Afeef Nessouli

AfeefNess

Trust me when I say this. Arab sunni Muslim journalists who have on the ground experience, get left out of this conversation because white people in editorial board rooms really

Dominic

domihim

... there's an "independent Lebanese geopolitical commentator" with a huge Western following. She has zero written words outside Twitter. Instead you'll find her selfies with Canadian suburbia as background on

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ruffleseed

I want to talk about Vernacular Schools, from a non-racial point of view. Just education.I went to SJK(C), and my son will enter SJK(C) next year. I consider myself a

Maggie Burton

mmburton

Even as a regressive form of taxation, property taxes are still redistributive. What we discussed yesterday would have represented 0.25% of a mill on the overall rate. Looking at total

Jim Grace

mac_puck

1. UK net transfer to the EU?The Commons Library worked out the net cash transfer was £8.9Bn in 2018 (see below).But this was just public sector receipts: it didn't include

Sachiko Ishikawa

Ishikawa_Sachi

Okay—we need to talk about white people’s idealization (fetishization) of Japan.You know why white cishet men love Japan?Because a) expat culture and white privilege b) orientalism c) classism d) sexism

AussieinJapan

AussieinJapan

To make a positive out of a negative from the last few months of craziness here’s a few thoughts of what I learnt during our Tokyo “lockdown”, WFH & since.While

Faraz Shibli

farazshibli1

Thought-provoking piece on @BBCCountryfile on ethnic minorities and access to countryside by fellow adventurer @DwayneFields. But it prompted lots of comments, many of them lacking in understanding or downright unpleasant.Brown

Stephen Heyman

steveheyman

My book “The Planter of Modern Life” comes out today! It took me ~5 years to produce a biography of a FARMER that (I hope) feels every bit as

Steven Bodzin

guacamayan

LIVE: Indictment of John Cobin, US-born libertarian/right-winger for shooting a man in Reñaca, Chile. Charges of attempted murder & more. Victim says he was out shopping, crossed the street to

Shalys Petty

Shalys_Petty

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT:How The DNC Hired CrowdStrike to Frame Russia for the Hackhttps://thenationalpulse.com/commentary/exclusive-excerpt-how-the-dnc-hired-crowdstrike-to-frame-russia-for-the-hack/U.S. Director of National Intelligence Ratcliff

Hugo Poliart

HugoPoliart

SCAM ALERT on @Immoweb /Airbnb in Brussels. If you are an expat living in Brussels or about to move here, please read this carefully. Yesterday I went on Immoweb looking

Michelle D'Arcy

mishmishjuba

Thread 1/14 - In light of the powerful #BlackLivesMatter movement going global there is a growing number of critical narratives being released on the systematic racism the Aid Sector

Claire Symonds

claire_roses

It’s been a tremendously bleak week. Well done for getting through it. Here are some ridiculous news stories about badgers. 1/7 This badger stole an entire crate of cheese from

M Reyaz, PhD || محمد ریاض

journalistreyaz

1) THREAD on how Hindutva Zealots Harming India’s Goodwill in Muslim World, also trying to explain (put in perspective) why suddenly Arabs Twitterati (and SM influencers) are criticizing India (based