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...from spying in each other's country, Baer says. That means the U.S. could not have useful operatives in London mosques, and the British just did not. And some businesses make the same mistake, according to George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR, an intelligence firm in Austin, Texas. "The expat community in Iran missed the fall of the Shah. In Russia they missed the fall of communism," he says. "They tend to rely too much on their personal contacts. They think, 'If I know the Shah's brother-in-law, I'm well connected, and I know what's going...
...Japan's modern religion. There are no degrees of citizenship here: if you are not "a Japanese" your gaijin status is hammered home at every encounter with officialdom, every gape from rural school kids and every well-meant compliment on your chopstick skills. This is not an "Expat-as-Victim" article: I know that in the immigration authority's hierarchy of gaijinhood, Caucasians have a far easier time than, say, Filipino "Japayukis," Russian exotic dancers or South American laborers. My point is that foreignness is like a magical garment from a folktale, one with the sewn-in curse that...
...foreign veteran of Japan, Arsène Wenger, the acclaimed French coach of the English club Arsenal. One of France's first coaching exports, Wenger moved from J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight to the Gunners in 1996, and promptly turned the London club into a veritable colony of expat French stars. Within two years, he had walked off with both the English Premiership title and the Football Association Cup. His bid to another F.A. cup was thwarted last year by Liverpool, under the coaching of another Frenchman, Gérard Houllier. An architect of the French national training system...
...other kids on the Asian travel circuit, that drugs in Laos are plentiful and cheap, and as long as you don't do anything too stupid, the cops leave you alone to get loaded in peace. Towns such as Vang Viang and Muang Sing, in the north, have developed expat communities of late teens and twentysomethings who come intending to stay a day or two but then find they are unable to leave. What keeps them in Vang Viang? For some, it is an idyllic landscape with jagged limestone karsts towering over the languorous Nam Xong river. But what more...
...Mining Lao held sapphire mining concessions, estimated to be worth $100 million, in Bokeo province, a region of dense forest, green rice paddies and rusty tin shacks where farmers were known to find sapphires and rubies in the red earth after heavy rains. In the cozy world of expats in Vientiane the Danes came to know the owners, Bernie Jeppesen and Julie Bruns. They dined at the same restaurants, went to the same parties and were united by the shared frustrations of doing business among the corruption and cronyism of Laos. One expat, on the condition of anonymity, says...