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The last year has been... interesting, hasn't it? Despite everything, though, I think there is always room for Muppet patriotism .
One thing the pandemic has brought into sharp focus for me is what it means to be a foreigner. In Asia, you sort of get used to the collective belief that you are, and always will be, an outsider. Ang mo, gweilo, gaijin--these terms are so common you barely notice. But then there's a crisis, and you notice. In some places, it quickly became clear that foreigners were at the back of the line, and worse, were blamed for the pandemic. It's easy to do. Foreigners are the "other." (And in America, they have been