Damian Cultures´ Blog

There are sometimes that people confuse these two terms, both refers that people are moving across the boarders of nations, or maybe they just don’t know what the expatriate term means.

When we are talking of the expatriates, is just a person that is living permanently or temporally in a different country where he or she grew or was born by legal terms. This also implies that this person is affected by the culture where is leaving.

As an example of an expatriate we could imagine a company sending one of its workers to collaborate and work for a period of time, even a person who had to live the country when he was just a little child and had to travel with the family.

Meanwhile immigrants can be appreciated as people searching for the citizenship during the time spent in that country and more labor kind (people searching for best works to improve somehow their life conditions). Unfortunately, today in the present we see many examples of illegal situations of immigrants, this has created a stigma, making many people believe that whenever is speaking about this topic it has to be related with the Africans (going to Europe), Mexicans, Colombians, and more Latin American people.

Nowadays in USA is very common to hear the term “wetback” and/or "beaner", a very offensive term for Mexicans that arrive to North America searching for better opportunities.

Maybe because am friend of some Mexicans, and also because am a Colombian (catalogued as drug dealer) but I really hurt when every person is treated as an illegal.

This time i wont post any pictures, I will just let two music videos (in Spanish), who are very related with the last part of the topic... the treat received for all the people, generalizing the concepts.

Beaner - Frijolero - Molotov (from Mexico)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdPDsLRSllQ

Wetback - Mojado - Ricardo Arjona (Guatemala) and Intocable (USA)

This video comes with subtitles in english, which i really recommend to watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKQrlLlFo8