Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?

Nonsense. Expat indicates citizenship status. An expatriate is a person temporarily residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. An immigrants on the other hand is a person in the process of changing their citizenship to their new resident country.<p>I&#x27;ve never heard a European immigrant referred to as an Expat in New York.<p>Here in China we are certianly not immigrants because it is made absolutely clear we are expected to eventually leave.<p>If anything the question is why are some people called Expats and some called Migrant Worker?

The author has confused &quot;race&quot; with &quot;education&quot;.<p>I am a white American who lived in the South Pacific. One of the things I noticed is that the term &quot;Expat&quot; was used to refer to a qualified worker who goes abroad to work for an international company for a specified amount of time.<p>My neighbor and friend was an &quot;Expat&quot; Fijian working on a two year bank rotation.<p>&quot;Immigrant&quot; was used mostly for migrant workers or workers that had an undetermined timeframe.

Supporters of the startup visa should emphasize how it will attract expats instead of immigrants. Amirite?