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Replying to @userbahn76 I’m a slowmad. Many of the people I help are indeed immigrants. But, just as many are intentionally expats. Do you understand the nuances of these terms? An immigrant intends to settle in the country permanently. They will learn the language, integrate into the culture, and move their entire ‘center of influence’ to the new country. An expat is someone who is in a country temporarily. They could be there a year, three years, or even ten years. The difference is, they know it’s not forever. They may not learn the language, have any local friends, or move their money to the new country. Now, an expat can become an immigrant if their intentions change. That actually happens a lot. A nomad is a person who moves frequently. They may be staying in a country on tourist visas and never going through any formal immigration processes. I call myself a slowmad, because I move from place to place, but slowly. I still have to go through many legal immigration processes, but my forever plan isn’t clear. So you can stop trying to flex and claiming I should call myself an immigrant. 🆘🇺🇸

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It's not a racist thing that I'm not using the word "immigrant" in my content, and that I often use the word "X" pad instead of "immigrant". The reason I don't use the word "immigrant" straight away in the content that I'm producing about how to move abroad is because a lot of the people that I help have no intention of becoming an immigrant in the country that they're going to. An immigrant is someone who's moving to that country, intending to stay permanently. They're going to move everything about their life, including their financial life, their possessions, their family life, everything over to the new country. Our ancestors who came over to America, those were immigrants. They were not going back and forth, going back home all the time. They literally picked up and moved their entire life, everything they knew to the new country. They were going to integrate, learn the language, have all their money there, all their schooling there, everything about their new life was the new country that they were picking. Now the word "X" pad might not be the right word either because an "X" pad is someone who is intentionally there temporarily, right? These are going to be people who are there for a study abroad program or they're going to be people who are there maybe for a short term work assignment. These are definitely the people who are in other countries because they work at embassies or their military families and they're there for a short term assignment. Those are definitely "X" pads and "X" pad might not be the right word but it is a generally accepted word for kind of this idea that I'm talking about about Americans moving abroad. Now the word "no-mad" is also probably not the right word because a "no-mad" is somebody who moves around more aimlessly without a purpose and definitely much more frequently than an "X" pad. And nomadic people are often thought to be the young, 20-somethings who are hostile-hopping and just like living it up, going to the country to country without necessarily a plan. So in my personal life when people ask me about my long-term plan living abroad, I actually call myself a slow-mad, which there's no purpose of me making any videos on TikTok labeled slow-mad because nobody has heard of that word but I consider myself a slow nomad, slow-mad. And that's because I don't necessarily know where I'm going to live. So when people come at me saying no, no, you're an immigrant. I don't feel like an immigrant. I haven't integrated into any of the places that I've lived, I lived in the Dominican Republic for one year, Japan for two and a half years and I've been in Portugal for a year and a half. That is not an immigrant when you're moving from country to country and you don't know where you're going to settle. So I call myself a slow-mad, I'm not using the word "X" pad as a way to be more prestigious, I just want to be more accurate than saying that I'm helping only immigrants. Lot of the people I help want to move for a period of time. They want to move through the Trump administration or they want to move so that they can get their kids through high school. That doesn't necessarily mean that they are moving to permanently become an immigrant somewhere. So I hope those distinctions help you understand why I use the word "X" pad because it's definitely more temporary than immigrant on the majority of cases I deal with and it's definitely more long-term than no-mad, which is definitely not the goal of most of the people I help. So it's kind of in the middle. I call myself a slow-mad, maybe once that word is more widely adopted, then I can start making contact saying I help slow-mad, but until then I'm using the word "X" pad and it has nothing to do with the color of any one skin or the prestige of that word holds. It's just simply more accurate than using the word "immigrant" at this time.

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