05-01-2016, 04:16 AM
I'm thoroughly confused x.x
Why do other cultures find the word "Foreigner" to be a bad thing?
The only other people who I know use the term as frequently as we do here, are Japanese people and like them, we usually mean it with the most innocent of intentions;
But I've come across a lot of flack for using it, as it some how implies that I'm racist?
I call all people not from here, a foreigner, because that's the way I was raised to address an outsider, even other West Indian people, tho we tend to use their descriptive name of origin (Bajan/Yardie/Trini/etc).
It's really cool and odd to come across such vast differences in such simple aspects of culture x.x
Why do other cultures find the word "Foreigner" to be a bad thing?
The only other people who I know use the term as frequently as we do here, are Japanese people and like them, we usually mean it with the most innocent of intentions;
But I've come across a lot of flack for using it, as it some how implies that I'm racist?
I call all people not from here, a foreigner, because that's the way I was raised to address an outsider, even other West Indian people, tho we tend to use their descriptive name of origin (Bajan/Yardie/Trini/etc).
It's really cool and odd to come across such vast differences in such simple aspects of culture x.x