expatriates most likely to return home eventually:
1. china born chinese.
2. taiwanese.
3. penangites.
expatriates least keen to return home:
singaporeans.
the nationality least likely to become expatriate:
japanese.
china has a mysterious magic. despite every painful memory, a thousand years of culture still exerts an inexorable pull over the dreams and hopes of her scattered diaspora.
singaporeans, on the other hand, are almost afraid to return. home, when you are an older singaporean, can be too costly and unforgiving to retire to.
2 comments:
"hai gui", or sea turtles, they are called here in China, those returning migrants.
i was also thinking of the elderly in their seventies & eighties who have made a new life in a foreign land and continue to live in the motherland inside. a bit like the song... i've crossed every border but my heart's there now.
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