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Agree 100%. When I'm told to "go home" if I have something to object against, I just can't figure out where they mean. Home is where I live. I live in Santander & Valencia.
Once you invest, start and run business, pay taxes, employe people, one might think you have some degree of say about how those tax money are spent without risking being through out of your new home.

 

Filipino pride. Anyone living here long enough, should know that Filipinos cannot take criticism, no matter how well intentioned.

 

I hate to say this, but this seems to be another worldwide human phenomenon - the "in people and the out people". Yes, you may be always be viewed by some as a foreigner - even after you have been bestowed with (and fairly earned) full rights of citizenship. But I sure as hell wouldn't let those small-minded few EVER control my destiny an passon.

Heck, if I had a business, employed locals, created tax revenue, paid taxes, lived in two houses, and didn't have a voice or a vote, I'd sure be looking at attaining full rights of citizenship.

And I'd be smiling all the way to the bank. Having citizenship when one already has so much to offer will put more playing cards into your hands.

You can play with what you have in your hands now, or with citizenship, you can draw from the deck. Even if the deck is stacked against you and you don't draw an "Ace", it's still a card you can play you didn't have before.

The man or woman that has accomplished as much as having a successful business, two homes and everything else attendant to that, has done well and are NOT the dull knives in the drawer.

You make the best of the hand you are dealt - and you smile all the way to the bank.

I read a story one time about the first self-made woman millionaire in America. A woman who, about 100 years ago, who started with nothing and turned herself into the first independently made, self-made woman millionaire in America.

The woman happened to be an African-American. I can only imagine the challenges she must have had 100 years ago in a white, male-only business world. Not to mention the stigma her color back then must have been in the "hoity-toity" upper-class society circles she probably was never invited into or rarely asked to be a part of.

But I imagine she probably laughed all the way to the bank.

So should you. Look at the donut at not at the hole, right?

nwlivewire

 

Seems it is a new word/phrase they have learned and will push it to the Limit as they have done with the Word, Lend

JP

 

I would love to agree but in 2016 you may change your mind on this a little.

Just saying

JP

 

If you are invited to dine with your "host", and your host gets a big piece of GREEN spinach in his teeth, and, every single time he opens his mouth this piece of crap ruins his smile -
Well, do you tell him of this politely, or do you not let him know and just pretend it's not there? Even though everyone in the room can see it on his teethe except for the Host himself, there is a diplomatic way to approach this that will allow him to "save face".

Praise in public but criticize in private. Allowing someone the "out" of "saving face" oftentimes will get the spinach off the Host's teeth AND the person doing the "calling out" will gain respect from the Host, too. This can come in handy as saved capital that can be spent at a later date for another time of "spinach in the teeth".

Now I realize the Host may not give a d*mn. But at least you allowed him the option to "save face" first. When the Host realizes that spinach on the teeth makes him look bad, oftentimes this may be enough for the Host to make a clean sweep.

Bitching about things serves no forward purpose. But bitching about something in a polite way and not personalizing it, PLUS offering a solution will work wonders.

Be part of the solution - have a solution - and you'd be surprised at just how much more cooperation you can garner.

Look for the "win-win".

nwlivewire