Posts by renata@cosocial.ca
 (DIR) Post #B2crw8HL0sX8Ogvl7w by renata@cosocial.ca
       2026-01-24T21:35:13Z
       
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       @evan As a Brazilian citizen, it’s mandatory for me to vote for president every 4 years even though I don’t live there.I lose the right to renew my passport if I don’t. Brazil sees voting as a responsibility not a right - you can go to the polls and void your ballot but you have to show up. I have opinions on the subject after voting as a Canadian citizen for many years.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2eupWmjuBw9s5ctV2 by renata@cosocial.ca
       2026-01-25T15:08:00Z
       
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       @mayintoronto @evan @fabio Just chiming in that I also agree that expat is a bad word and you should consider not using it.I call myself an immigrant from Brazil. People call themseves immigrants from a country, the government refers to us refers to us as immigrants. We’re not expats. Thanks for coming to my talk.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2evXRFvp8eXSsDduS by renata@cosocial.ca
       2026-01-25T16:08:52Z
       
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       @evan @mayintoronto @fabio There’s the word emigrante in Portuguese but I don’t think people use it anymore. A lot of similar words that were used when I was still in school fell into disuse because language is dynamic like that (and that makes me old)It’s usually two very similar words that mean different things, people keep using one of them more than the other, and the less used eventually gets replaced. Fabio can talk about that better than me because he studied communications.