Define an expat.

You mean a seaman is also an expatriate?

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

Britexpat.... you have been overseas to long! LOL

..kids in at least two countries!

I would have said

1. Qatari

2. Other GCC

3. Lebanese/Egyptians (coz they speak Arabic)

4. Westerners

5+. As per your suggestion.

trust me, as a westerner, I KNOW I'm not that close to the top...

So you are saying he was racist because he didn't want a Qatari to do the job?

Have worked in at least three different hemispheres

Flown on at least 10 different airlines

Use a small holdall for your entire luggage

Be bored with air travel

Know everyone who's ever been contracting for the last 10 years

Wear an imitation Rolex watch

Never be seen in an "I’ve been to Saudi" tee shirt

Get on well with the boss

Take a tourist under your wing

Always try to fiddle the expenses

Lay down a brew on the first day

Get pissed on the first night - somehow

Reminisce over "the good old days of contracting"

Have a mega-tan

Have a negligible bank account

Have an understanding wife/divorce

Have a £100,000 house

Have a wallet full of credit cards, car hire cards, etc.

Been blown up at least once

Wear ray ban sunglasses - permanently

Arrive at airport after "last call" announced

Enter airport pissed - both ways

Have a 90 page passport

Have the taxman chasing you

Thanks Mis-Cat - I have never heard that term.

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I like your contribution, Paul. Setting a mindset again????

"dgoodrebel will always be the rebellious good one"

A Kiwi is flightless bird indigenous to New Zealand it is also an affectionate name given to some one from New Zealand.

What's a kiwi?

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You missed out the OA group.......Other arabs

We are in the process of getting human rights groups into the Gulf, but unfortunately last time it fell on deaf ears. All we can do is try and pray to god that something is done about all this unnecessary human suffering.

yes I think you are right, it isn't a good system but the way things are here I can't see it changing too much.

"So racisim is alive and kicking and for me you should only judge a person by his competency and not by his nationality."

I don't know why you are surprised by this. Nationality is the most important thing in Qatar. Let me show you the class system here and your ranking anil fig.

1. Qatari's

2. Westerners – Americans Canadians, Australians, Kiwis, British, etc etc

3. Pilipino, Indonesians etc.

4. Nepalese, Sri Lankan’s, Indian – now these people are treated real swell in the Gulf. Your considered lucky if you get to wear a yellow jump suit as you are allowed inside - how privileged are they? They actually get to go into a building. If however you wear a blue jumpsuit your considered scum and can only work outdoors. Oh well just think of the lovely suntan and Vitamin D your body is taking in.

Charming place isn't it?

expat= "girls? where"

sharp tongue "beer"tex.

QLAG members are there?

Five expats are in Doha Golf Club, they see a sign that says "Expats Bar," they go in and order their drinks. The bartender serves them and says, "That will be 4 Riyals."

They can't believe their good luck. They finish the drinks and order another round and the bartender again says, "That will be 4 Riyals,"

This whets their curiosity, so they ask the bartender, "How can you afford to serve beer so cheap?" The bartender replies, "I guess you've seen the decor here. Well, I am a retired expat and I always wanted to own a bar. Last year I won the lottery for £15 million and decided to open this place for real expats. Every drink costs 4 Riyals - wine, spirits, beer all the same."

They notice four guys wearing QL T-Shirts at the end of the bar who haven't ordered anything. They ask, "What's with them?"

The bartender says "Oh, they're from QLSG ; they're waiting for happy hour."

Anyone that can be replaced by a local in a job is an expat.

Anyone who is given second treatment in a country

Means I'm not an expatriate!

...but you sure do know how to describe a typical expat in the Middle East. LOL

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

damn you britex, dont tell all about me!

:P

To be honest , most of the people here are not real expats..

A real expat has:

Red nose from drinkig too much

Beer Belly

At least one ex-wife in his home country

A Rolex on his wrist

Gold chain round his neck

At least five rings on is fingers

Tall stories to tell

with Termination letter just like Damokles sword...

We are all temporary on this world, we are expatriates in our lives.

You mean 90% of US residents are expats?

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

" if we are not part of the SOLUTION, then we are the PROBLEM "

Expatriate

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence. The word comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (country, fatherland).

The term is often used in the context of Westerners living in non-Western countries, although it is also used to describe Westerners living in other Western countries, such as Americans living in the United Kingdom, or Britons living in Spain. It may also reasonably refer to Japanese living, for example, in New York City, New York. The key determinant would seem to be cultural/socioeconomic and causation.

In the 19th century, Americans, numbering perhaps in the thousands, were drawn to Europe—especially to Munich and Paris—to study the art of painting. Henry James was a famous expatriate American writer from the 1870s, who adopted England as his home.

Famous American expatriates

American literary notables who lived in Paris from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein. African-American expatriation to Paris also boomed after World War I, beginning with black American veterans who preferred the subtler racism of Paris to the oppressive racism and segregation in parts of the United States.

In the 1920s African-American writers, artists, and musicians arrived in Paris and popularized jazz in Parisian nightclubs, a time when Montmartre was known as "the Harlem of Paris." Some notable African-American expatriates from the 1920s onward included Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and, after World War II, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker.

Another famous group of expatriates was the so-called Beat Generation of American artists living in other countries during the 1950s and 1960s. This group included Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Harold Norse, Gregory Corso and Gary Snyder. Later generation expatriates included 1950s jazz musicians such as Steve Lacy, 1960s rock musician Jim Morrison, and 1970s singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy. Preceding the Beats by several years, and serving to some extent as a point of pilgrimage for many of them was the American expatriate composer and writer Paul Bowles, who spent time in Europe in the 30s before relocating to Tangiers, Morocco in 1947, where he lived until his death in 1999.

Many American fashion designers have notably become expatriates in France and Italy to design for existing European design houses or to enhance their own collections. These fashion designers include Marisol Deluna, Tom Ford, Patrick Kelly, and Marc Jacobs.

Colorado-born actor, singer and songwriter Dean Reed never achieved great success in his native United States, but later achieved great popularity in South America, especially Argentina, Chile and Peru. He appeared in several Italian "spaghetti westerns" and finally spent much of his adult life in the German Democratic Republic, but never renounced his USA citizenship. He was an immensely popular celebrity in Eastern Europe until his death in 1986.

Trends in expatriation

During the later half of the 20th century expatriation was dominated by professionals sent by their employers to foreign subsidiaries or headquarters. Starting at the end of the 20th century globalization created a global market for skilled professionals and leveled the income of skilled professionals relative to cost of living while the income differences of the unskilled remained large. Cost of intercontinental travel had become sufficiently low, such that an employers not finding the skill in a local market could effectively turn to recruitment on a global scale.

This has created a different type of expatriate where commuter and short-term assignments are becoming the norm, and are gradually replacing the traditional long term. Private motivation is becoming more relevant than company assignment. Families might often stay behind when work opportunities amount to months instead of years. The cultural impact of this trend is more significant. Traditional corporate expatriates did not integrate and commonly only associated with the elite of the country they were living in. Modern expatriates form a global middle class with shared work experiences in multi-national corporation and working and living the global financial and economical centers. Integration is incomplete but strong cultural influences are transmitted. Middle class expatriates contain many re-migrants from emigration movements one or two generations earlier.

In Dubai the population is predominantly expatriates, from countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines, with only 3% of the population made up of Western expatriates.

Business handling of expatriate employees

In dealing with expatriates, an international company reckons the value of them and has experienced staff to deal with them, and often has a company-wide policy and coaching system that includes spouses at an earlier stage in the decision-making process, giving spouses an official voice. Not many companies provide any compensation for loss of income of spouses. They often do provide benefits and assistance. The level of support differs, ranging from offering a job-hunting course for spouses at the new location to full service partner support structures, run by volunteering spouses supported by the organization. An example of an expatriate led project can be found in the Gracia Arts Project of Barcelona.

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NIL ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM

expat = alcoholic

expat...

head,neck and hands = brown

legs = white

i dont even look like an european...

anil, dont be upset!

leave him like that!

Is someone who is temporarily residing in a country/ culture other than his own Country. Could be white/black/asian anyone...