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...expatriate in Asia is often a complainer: things are so different there from the way they are in wherever he thinks of as home that he feels aggrieved, ripped off, patronized or left out. The complaint takes different forms in India, Hong Kong and Japan, but the expat often stresses the ex part, as if he's more aware of what he's left behind than of where he's landed. The foreign observer is likely to be happy only if he sees his foreignness as an adventure, and recognizes that he has given up a sense of belonging...
...illusion and a form of imperialism. As Japan comes to resemble more and more the Ohio he has fled, as old friends die and he goes gray?half of the items in the journals come after he is 65?the entries become more melancholy. Even so, another longtime American expat in Tokyo is still, typically, shouting at Richie, four decades into his Japanese sojourn, "You will not allow yourself to be furious with these people...
...ginger biscuits, vanilla fudge, mango chutney, apple sauce, thick-cut marmalade and piccalilli (it's a mustard pickle) worldwide. www.cottagedelight.co.uk Upmarket emporium Fortnum & Mason of London 's Piccadilly will ship shortbread, Gentleman's Relish (posh anchovy paste) and some hampers worldwide. www.fortnumandmason.com Brits abroad miss basic corner-shop fare. Expat Shopping delivers worldwide those delicacies they can't live without: English mustard, Marmite, baked beans, mint jelly, brown sauce and well-loved biscuits and snacks like Jammie Dodgers, Wagon Wheels and Twiglets. www.expatshopping.com
...protection of British laws in Hong Kong, it was able to deliver genuine, often hard-hitting news to readers in countries where the media had no freedom or were heavily regulated-and, until the late 1980s, that was the case in most of Asia. The Review had a discernibly expat, Hong Kong-centric perspective-Southeast Asia always seemed more important than Japan, the region's economic engine-but there was charm in that, too. "Travellers' Tales," a column poking fun at bad use of English in Asia, remained one of the magazine's most popular features, even when Asian readers...
...advantage, thanks in part to large numbers of overseas troops who tend to vote Republican. "I think you can count on a lot of votes for the President here," says Caryln Manning, head of Republicans Abroad in the Philippines. But Democrats argue that there are lots of expats who are against Bush but might not have bothered to register yet?not to mention the possibility that war-weary soldiers might now oppose the Commander in Chief who sent them to Iraq. Hoping to capitalize on such anti-Bush sentiments, Hong Kong-based American and Democrat Brett Rierson set up OverseasVote.com...