By FutureExpat, on March 17th, 2010

March 17 is celebrated throughout the United States and Ireland as St. Patrick’s Day. On St. Paddy’s Day, as it is familiarly known, we wear green, eschew orange and drink gallons of green beer. (Yuck!) We hold parades, dye entire rivers green, and generally behave in a very un-saintly fashion.
St. Patrick: A Brief
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By FutureExpat, on June 19th, 2009
Yes! Learning the language is vital to the success of your move. That is, if you’re a cultural expat.
As a cultural expat, you are motivated to bring your culture, or a specific aspect of it, to the people you’re living among (missionary expat), or you are a student of the new culture.
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By FutureExpat, on June 1st, 2009
I recently posted an article in which I attempted to categorize expats into groups. This is not easy, as many – if not most – expats live overseas for reasons that include multiple categories, but I thought it was worth a try. Over the next few days, I will elaborate on some of the categories I included in that initial post, beginning with:
Cultural Expats
Many people choose to live a life outside the boundaries of their native countries because they want to immerse themselves in another culture, or because they want to bring their culture to a foreign land. I divided the cultural expats into the broad classifications of missionaries and
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