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scot47

Sep 21st 2019 8:56 pm

Exilium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile

Let us not romanticise the experience. "Being an expat" is the modern version of "Exilium" in Imperial Rome.

Whether you are in Dubai, recruiting honkies to work for the Emiratis or are slaving away as a sparkie in Oz, there is nothing romantic about it.

sid nv

Sep 22nd 2019 4:44 pm

Re: Exilium

Yer bum’s oot the windae, man.

scot47

Sep 22nd 2019 6:24 pm

Re: Exilium

Would you care to elucidate ?

sid nv

Sep 22nd 2019 9:58 pm

Re: Exilium

Even if you adopt the voluntary meaning for exile rather than being banished, voluntary exile was used to avoid punishment. I don't see how Expat = Exile.
History of Roman Exile | Ovid and the Censored Voice

scot47

Sep 23rd 2019 1:52 pm

Re: Exilium

No jobs at home so people go an work in a foreign land. That sounds like exile to me.Migration is economic.

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