Should expatriate citizens of your country have the right to vote?
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@evan @mayintoronto @fabio A lot of people just say “brasileiros no exterior” - I don’t identify with that. I’m a Brazilian-Canadian.
I truly never identified with Brazil as a country for a bunch of reasons and Canada embraced me so much since the day I arrived, I am a very proud Canadian.
Every time I go to Brazil it’s not a good experience for me. I miss being at home and home is Canada. It will always be.
@renata @evan @mayintoronto @fabio I usually identify as Brazilian but last week I was imagining some kind of conversation and called myself "Canadian" in my head for the first time (I moved here in 2021).
I also often say I'm from <city where I moved for university and lived for 8 years> rather than <city I was born in and lived for 16 years>.
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@MJmusicinears I didn’t think of armed forces, or diplomats for that matter.
It is a complex web.
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@rakoo @mayintoronto @fabio @evan to me, "expat" carries with it the expectation that you will eventually return to home country. Immigrant does not.
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@renata @evan @mayintoronto @fabio I usually identify as Brazilian but last week I was imagining some kind of conversation and called myself "Canadian" in my head for the first time (I moved here in 2021).
I also often say I'm from <city where I moved for university and lived for 8 years> rather than <city I was born in and lived for 16 years>.
@dancer_storm I love this for you!!
My parents brought me here as a young kid and I was told we were probably never going back home. It was nice that all the kids around me looked different too, and they were all (probably) Canadians.
In my head, it wasn't long before I thought "I guess I'm a Canadian now?"
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@rakoo @mayintoronto @fabio there are some other words for French citizens living abroad that are used here in Montreal.