Renouncing US Citizenship Might Get Cheaper

Here’s a little news item that caught my eye this week. Apparently, a group of concerned US citizens abroad is brining a lawsuit against the government, because of

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American Ignorance: How Much do Americans Know about Spain?

How much does your average American know about Spain? Probably very little. So are Americans all ignorant? Well, that’s a longer story, which I’ll tell here. Let me

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Bill Bryson Goes to the real America… my America

Living abroad, I come into contact with people from basically everywhere in the world. “Foreigners.” People from Inner Mongolia, Uzbekistan, or the edge of Siberia, people from villages

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Cómo ligar con guiris – ligar con extranjeras es posible si sabes cómo…

Debido al aplastante éxito de mi artículo de ayer “Cómo ligar en inglés” he buscado un poco más información sobre el tema de las relaciones interculturales. Y he

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The Great Arizona Haboob Controversy

In the last couple of weeks I have read some articles about language that I just couldn’t ignore. The latest one is about the controversy surrounding the word

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Memories of a Redneck

When I was in Elementary School, I had a friend whose family were real Arizonians. I’m a real Arizonian, too, but my parents aren’t. This guy was third

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