@evan @mayintoronto @fabio A lot of people just say “brasileiros no exterior” - I don’t identify with that. I’m a Brazilian-Canadian.

I truly never identified with Brazil as a country for a bunch of reasons and Canada embraced me so much since the day I arrived, I am a very proud Canadian.

Every time I go to Brazil it’s not a good experience for me. I miss being at home and home is Canada. It will always be.

@evan ️

@evan @mayintoronto @fabio There’s the word emigrante in Portuguese but I don’t think people use it anymore.

A lot of similar words that were used when I was still in school fell into disuse because language is dynamic like that (and that makes me old)

It’s usually two very similar words that mean different things, people keep using one of them more than the other, and the less used eventually gets replaced.

Fabio can talk about that better than me because he studied communications.

@mayintoronto @evan @fabio Just chiming in that I also agree that expat is a bad word and you should consider not using it.

I call myself an immigrant from Brazil. People call themseves immigrants from a country, the government refers to us refers to us as immigrants.

We’re not expats.

Thanks for coming to my talk.

@mpjgregoire @evan Just the passport, you have to pay a fine and if you don’t you can’t do a bunch of things - makes your life annoying.

My father passed and I had skipped one election, I had to regularize my electoral status at the consulate to be able to get a lawyer in Brazil and get the estate stuff going.

@evan As a Brazilian citizen, it’s mandatory for me to vote for president every 4 years even though I don’t live there.

I lose the right to renew my passport if I don’t. Brazil sees voting as a responsibility not a right - you can go to the polls and void your ballot but you have to show up.

I have opinions on the subject after voting as a Canadian citizen for many years.