It also make sense the other way to understand this song, as there are so many little things that are different and that you don´t realize about yourself and your culture before you live in another country.
I actually quite like the way when I am a foreigner I have an excuse to not know how things work, I don´t have to follow all the rules, I don´t belong - both good and bad. If there is a "secret code" that you should be wearing this or having that, I can easier choose to stay outside or to be included than if I am borne and raised in one place and need to get my surroundings acceptance in a different way.
When I am an expat, I am only visiting, I am here temporarily, if things go bad it doesn´t really matter that much because I am leaving soon anyway. I have a different life elsewhere, I have at least two homes where I belong. I have people in other countries that know me and understand me, that accept me for my opinions.
This can also be a problem because choosing by being outside I dont actually need to get involved and participate for the common good, when it comes to charity or other things, I am getting the benefits but not contributing.
It also makes it easier to do bad things if you don´t belong in a society, nobody knows your granparents and can cause the shame and by that follow the rules. I belive I have read somewhere that there is a corrolation between crime and rootless kids.
What is normal is suddenly not normal anymore when you are a foreigner. Genereal accepted truths just aren´t.
It makes us more conscious of who we are and what we value.
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