Can you name the countries with the most British expats? by paulio_ham

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BRITS ABROAD! Quiz

by paulio_ham

Created May 31, 2010 in Geography
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	banutzu:	May 31st, 2010 at 13:41 GMT	10 points
	why are brits abroad called "ex-pats" but foreigners in britain called immigrants?

	newmarcchan:	May 31st, 2010 at 19:28 GMT	-4 points
	45,000 Brits in Singapore! Now that is a surprise.

	switters:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 04:14 GMT	2 points
	@banutzu. The term 'ex-pat' sounds a lot more negative than it is, as though someone has given up patriotism in a symbolic gesture in favor of living abroad. However, it's simply a shortened form of 'expatriate', which literally means 'to leave one's OWN country'. The parallel to 'immigrant' is of course 'emigrant', but that can be anyone leaving any place that they had previously lived, regardless of nationality. You could definitely call anyone who has left the UK after living there an emigrant, but 'expatriate' is more specific.

	Jam1:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 11:06 GMT	1 point
	http://www.sporcle.com/games/Jam1/british_immigrants

	johnlk:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 14:54 GMT	2 points
	Rather surprised Italy isn't on here.

	h4ydn:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 15:10 GMT	2 points
	surprised greece and cyprus arent on here! #and italy

	themanintraining:	Jun 2nd, 2010 at 00:51 GMT	2 points
	fun quiz, lots of surprising answers

	paulio_ham:	Jun 2nd, 2010 at 09:36 GMT	3 points
	well spotted I somehow missed cyprus!

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	bumbles:	Nov 4th, 2010 at 16:32 GMT	9 points
	adrian96 if anything is bringing this country down, it's moronic bigots such as yourself, and certainly not the vast majority of decent and honest immigrants to this country who usually work harder and bring more to their communities than the indigenous locals do.

	HiddenPalace:	Nov 4th, 2010 at 21:18 GMT	2 points
	I would say that both adrian96 and bumbles are not completely correct. You can't make generalisations. A British person who finds it difficult to get a job despite making many applications and is completely willing to work may quite rightly take offense at the statement that "immigrants to this country usually work harder and bring more to their communities than the indigenous locals do". A person of immigrant origin who works hard may quite rightly take offence at the statement that they are "immigrating to steal another countries' benefits". As for the quiz itself, it's decent.

	Pit_trout:	Nov 4th, 2010 at 22:22 GMT	1 point
	@banutzu: I'd suggest it's because the language we use is English, and so has been shaped largely by the British/anglophone perspective on things. An expatriate was "one of us" who was living abroad; an immigrant was "one of them" who had come to live here. (I don't mean to suggest that we're thinking of it as "us" and "them" now, just that that's part of why the terminology developed the way it has.)

	techwork:	Nov 4th, 2010 at 22:54 GMT	5 points
	Adrian 96 - Come back when you're educated please. If you knew anything the vast majority of Indian people living here are descendants of people INVITED to the UK after the war from all over the British Empire to help rebuild the country.

	Manitopiaaa:	Feb 9th, 2011 at 09:28 GMT	1 point
	Spain has a lot of expats. Are expats by law still British citizens or are they just people of British descent who are typically citizens of their new country?