Questões de Inglês

Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?

[1]       In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of
[2]  putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word “expat”.
[3]       What is an expat? And who is an expat? According to Wikipedia, “an expatriate (often shortened to
[4]  expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of the person’s upbringing.
[5]  The word comes from the Latin terms ex (‘out of’) and patria (‘country, fatherland’)”.
[6]       Defined that way, you should expect that any person going to work outside of his or her country for
[7]  a period of time would be an expat, regardless of his skin colour or country. But that is not the case in
[8]  reality; expat is a term reserved exclusively for western white people going to work abroad.
[9]       Africans are immigrants. Arabs are immigrants. Asians are immigrants. However, Europeans are
[10]  expats because they can’t be at the same level as other ethnicities. They are superior. Immigrants is a
[11]  term set aside for ‘inferior races’.
[12]      Don’t take my word for it. The Wall Street Journal, the leading financial information magazine in the
[13]  world, has a blog dedicated to the life of expats and recently they featured a story ‘Who is an expat,
[14]  anyway?’. Here are the main conclusions: “Some arrivals are described as expats; others as immigrants;
[15]  and some simply as migrants. It depends on social class, country of origin and economic status. It’s
[16]  strange to hear some people in Hong Kong described as expats, but not others. Anyone with roots in a
[17]  western country is considered an expat … Filipino domestic helpers are just guests, even if they’ve been
[18]  here for decades. Mandarin-speaking mainland Chinese are rarely regarded as expats. It’s a double standard
[19]  woven into official policy.”
[20]      The reality is the same in Africa and Europe. Top African professionals going to work in Europe are
[21]  not considered expats. They are immigrants. Period.
[22]      Most white people deny that they enjoy the privileges of a racist system. And why not? But our
[23]  responsibility is to point out and to deny them these privileges, directly related to an outdated supremacist
[24]  ideology.
By Mawuna Remarque Koutonin Adapted from: <http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals- network/2015/ mar/13/white-people-expats-immigrantsmigration>. Accessed on September 12th, 2015.

Assinale com V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) as seguintes afirmações, conforme elas estejam ou não de acordo com o texto.
(   ) “Expat” has the same meaning of “immigrant”.
(   ) The blog of “The Wall Street Journal” does not support the author’s point of view.
(   ) Social class is one of the factors which differentiates an “expat” from an “immigrant”.
(   ) The author is against the supremacist ideology.
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Settling into a comfortable chair to “binge-watch” multiple episodes of your favorite TV show for hours may be hazardous to your health over the long-term, according to Lilian Cheung, lecturer and director, health promotion and communication for the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

“There’s convincing evidence in adults that the more television people watch, the more likely they are to gain weight or become overweight orobese,” Cheung told NBCNews.com on February 14, 2014. “And there’s emerging evidence that too much TV watching also increases the risk of weight-related chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes.”

Available in: <http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-thenews/binge-watching-tv-may-harm-health/>.

 

Mark T (true) or F (false) according to the text and choose the correct answer:

 

( ) Watching TV for hours may be harmful to your health over the long-term.

( ) Adults that watch too much TV increase their chances to become overweight.

( ) Adults that watch TV develop type 2 diabetes.

( ) It is important to sit in a comfortable chair to watch your favorite TV show.

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78,000 People Apply for One-Way Trip to Mars - The mission aims to send a crew to the Red Planet in 2022.

An ambitious project to establish a human colony on Mars has attracted applications from tens of thousands of wouldbe astronauts, just two weeks after applications opened. The mission, a private venture by the Dutch non-profit organization Mars One, aims to send a crew to the Red Planet in 2022 – and, due to the physiological change in the human body after a stay on Mars, there’d be no coming back. That hasn’t deterred people, though: so far, over 78,000 people have applied to become one of Mars’ first immigrants (the company is expecting 500,000 applicants by the time applications close on August 31). “This is turning out to be the most desired job in history,” says Bas Lansdorp, co-founder of Mars One. [...]

Available in: <http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/09/78000- people-apply-for-one-way-trip-to-mars/>.

 

Analyse the statements below and choose the correct option:

 

I. Mars One was created by the Dutch government.

II. The people that participate in this mission to Mars will be able to return in case they don’t get to adapt to the Red Planet.

III. 500.000 people have already applied to take part in this mission.

IV. The people that participate in this mission will never be able to return to Earth.

V. The project aims to settle a human colony on Mars.

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Women own or manage more than 30 percent of all businesses but 5 percent or less of the biggest enterprises, the United Nations said in a report published Monday.

The report, by the International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency based in Geneva, also estimated that without new actions to promote women’s equality in management, it would take 100 to 200 years to achieve gender parity in business leadership positions.

Posted on the I.L.O.’s website, the report was done by the organization’s Bureau for Employers’ Activities. It was based on information from 108 countries where I.L.O. data is available, as well as the findings of the organization’s survey of more than 1,200 companies in Africa, the AsiaPacific region, Eastern and Central Europe and the Latin America-Caribbean regions. [...]

GLADSTONE, Rick. Women Run 30 Percent of All Businesses, but Only 5 Percent of the Biggest Study Shows. The New York Times, jan. 12, 2015.

 

Choose the correct alternative

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Christian sacred art is produced in an attempt to illustrate, supplement and portray in tangible form the principles of Christianity, though other definitions are possible. Most Christian groups use or have used art to some extent, ________ some have had strong objections to some forms of religious image, and there have been major periods of iconoclasm within Christianity. [...]

Available in: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_art>.

 

Choose the correct alternative:

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As football continues to tiptoe around increased use of technology, tennis is boldly exploring where seemingly no sport has gone before.

Indeed a tennis event being staged Tuesday, and not the prestigious Miami Open, could well shape the sport for many years to come.

Hawk-Eye has been used at top-tier tournaments for a decade now but Tuesday evening in Salt Lake City the line calling aid will be used on the PowerShares Series solely instead of linespeople.

And one of the four participants in Utah, former Wimbledon finalist Mark Philippoussis, thinks it's a matter of when, not if, tennis at the highest level adopts something similar and does away with linespeople. [...]

Tennis without human error? You cannot be serious. CNN, mar. 24, 2015.

 

According to the text, choose the alternative that is INCORRECT: