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by et-al 2607 days ago
How about growing up brown in the UK, but also being able to immigrate to California?

> Born in England to Indian parents who later moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., [Pico Iyer] attended graduate school at Oxford and Harvard and then went to work for Time magazine.

We're getting off course here, but I do think there's a certain level of privilege when one snowbird's in a foreign country and doesn't bother learning the local language.

Immigrant workers in SE Asia would probably love to learn the local language if they weren't occupied working 16 hour shifts or sleeping.