In my last post I wasn’t actually trying to prove that foreigners are dirty. No doubt, someday, I’ll try and get a job, and this will tank my chances. I’ll be labeled a racist, pornographer, or some other nonsense, and *poof* no job for me. So, the question is: what inspired the post?
I’ve spent the last four weeks in the USA, away from my wife, simply because I had to leave so the University of Kent could apply for a work permit. I’m not allowed (as someone formerly on a student visa, by some rule/law) to be in-country when the application is made. Furthermore, my passport must be updated by a British Consulate in my home country—and that implies, of course, that I am in my home country when that update happens.
In other words, I’ve spent the last four weeks in the States simply because, from the UK’s perspective, I’m a dirty foreigner.
But I go back in a day or two, and can live and work there for some time, if I so choose. And while it is sometimes difficult being a foreigner, I kinda like the UK. In particular, I love that I can walk most everywhere I need to go, have a public rail system that I can use to go anywhere in the country, and have cheap and easy access to Europe. In the USA, I can drive for hours on end, and all I find are the same rest stops, chain restaurants, and Wal-Mart stores as far as the eye can see. From the UK, I can take a car on a train, the train under water, and then drive a few hours… crossing several international borders in the process. The language, culture, and way of life change drastically from one country to the next.
(Technically, you can take the car on a boat, too, but I haven’t done that yet.)
That’s kinda cool. And to think, in the USA, we’re afraid of Mexicans coming over the border.