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Who Coined The Term Displaced Person?

Who Coined The Term Displaced Person?

So sociologist Eugene Kulischer was the first to use the term “displaced person.”

Hmmm.

For some reason, this reminds me of the first time I realized there are two different words: “immigrate” and “emigrate.”

Immigrate: To come to a foreign country.

VS.

Emigrate: To leave your home country.

Examples: Kelly immigrated to the USA. Melissa emigrated from Brazil.

My advice is to live abroad if you can, if only for a short time.

A year overseas will make you realize that two different worlds can exist on the same planet.

It’s kinda cool, actually.

The phrase “displaced person” had a very particular meaning at the end of World War II: it was apparently coined by the Russian-American sociologist Eugene Kulischer to describe those who, as a result of war or other catastrophic social disruption, were forced to leave their native land and had no clear path to return. (It is noteworthy that Kulischer, between 1920 and 1941, was forced to flee newly Soviet Russia for Germany, Germany for Denmark, Denmark for France, and France for the United States—the last move occurring at approximately the same time that the Weil family and Claude Levi-Strauss came to America.) For Auden, the civilizational disruptions of the war had displaced everyone in some respect.

-Alan Jacobs, The Year Of Our Lord 1943 (Amazon)

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You Can Move To Save

You Can Move To Save

Relocating, when possible, to places with a lower cost of living is a highly underrated move.

See, everyone obsesses over salary. But income is only one side of the coin. The other side is expenses.

The part that everyone forgets is this: Both sides of this coin are equally valuable.

An annual $10,000 in lower costs is the same thing as an extra $10,000 in higher income.

A major move to save money is outside so many people’s comfort level that most never consider it though.

Maybe there’s ego in it too?

Maybe you think family or friends would see it as a failure?

Or, would you rather be from New York City, or Kingman Arizona?

Understand: We know about you. But you don’t know about us.

The double-double is when you can pull off a crazy move to earn more and save more.

Cheers to that.

We did it in Saudi Arabia.

When I was ten, my father had moved us—three boys, ages fourteen, ten, and eight—from Bronxville, New York, a compact, affluent suburb just north of Manhattan, to Kingman, Arizona, in a desert valley ringed by two mountain ranges, known primarily to the outside world as a place to get gas en route to somewhere else. He was drawn by the sun, by the cost of living—how else would he pay for his sons to attend the colleges he aspired to?—and by the opportunity to establish a regional cardiology practice of his own.

-Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air (Amazon)

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