Quote Originally Posted by ms rae View Post
To me, the word "immigrant" is not as offensive as the word "foreigner".

Immigrant just means:a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

But foreigner means: 1. a person not native to or naturalized in the country or jurisdiction under consideration; alien. or 2. a person from outside one's community.

Now that sounds more alienating to me.

Then again, I guess it depends where you come from. Commonly for many Filipinos, immigrant can have a negative connotation or meaning since most of the time, other nationalities think most Filipinos are poor and migrate for financial reasons(to escape ugly circumstances in their own country) - which can be quite embarrassing at times(no matter how true). Because it not only becomes a ground for prejudice against us. But most of all, it can be grounds for discrimination and/or abuse...
sorry i,am not as clever as you but immigrant to me is someone comming to the uk and taking advantage of the uk and not even trying to lern our culture or langauge, thats not a phillipino far from it, sorry to look at it this way but the uk is falling apart because of these people (not all of them), nothing wrong with being a foreigner you can still be apert of the country your in but still have your pride in your birth country