John Schinnerer
1 min readMay 15, 2024

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Love what you exposed with the Canva images. It bluntly shows how LLMs absolutely have minority world/dominant culture biases built in. Which is why some people would freak out at calling non-immigrant ag workers "expats," even though they fit the definition perfectly.

My own experience is from people I know who have moved from the USA (or Canada) to countries where cost of living is significantly less (that being their primary, or at least one of their primary, reasons for moving). In most cases this is Mexico or central or south America. @Dystopian Times nailed it as "passive aggressive colonialism." In this mode of "expat," with a few exceptions, they import their own culture and society. They live in "expat" bubbles that are mostly separate from the natives, except for services provided by the natives. Often they don't even learn the native language, or only enough for when they have to operate outside their bubble.

If they were "immigrants," they might be making significant efforts to engage with and assimilate into the culture they move into. But "expats" by this description mostly don't. They're just looking for a cheaper cost of living in a nice climate with more luxury than they could afford where they came from.

And, as you identify with the "non-immigrant ag workers," there is a partly inverse form of this where people come to north America from "poorer" economies to earn more money than they could where they're from, and also live mostly in social/cultural bubbles, learn little or no native language, etc.

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John Schinnerer
John Schinnerer

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A generalist in a hyper-specialized society. "How we do what we do is who we are becoming." - Humberto Maturana

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