The Displaced Nation

Entering the curious, unreal country occupied by international travelers

Tag Archives: Pocahontas

Is there a common theme — or better yet meme — for the expat life?

15 Comments Posted by on April 23, 2012

After writing, planning, commissioning, and editing posts for this site for just over a year — many of which were centered on the keyword “expat” — I have become rather fixated on that word of late. Yes, we’re back to that old chestnut, but kindly indulge me while I rake it over the coals again [...]

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“We read to know we’re not alone”: 1st-ever litfest for expats & random nomads

15 Comments Posted by on April 16, 2012

The displaced writer Hazel Rochman once said that reading “makes immigrants of us all”: Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. That must be why author interviews have played such an important role in the entertainment mix provided by The Displaced Nation since our founding one year [...]

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Love, love, love — love (& film) is all an expat needs… Welcome to February!

11 Comments Posted by on February 1, 2012

Two expats — he from England and she from Germany — first lock eyes in the lobby of a posh hotel in the Big Apple. Returning to his room from the gym, he stops in his tracks, bowled over by her exotic Northern European beauty, while she is drawn to his toned and muscular physique. [...]

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The Displaced Nation’s Halloween post is…mysteriously displaced!

4 Comments Posted by on October 31, 2011

Kate Allison was supposed to post today, for Halloween…but then, pouf, she vanished without a trace! How very strange, we think you’ll agree… Her topic was going to be Halloween costumes for expats. Given her offbeat sense of humor, none of us would have been the least bit surprised had she suggested we dress up [...]

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The Displaced Nation’s monthly themes — witty, wacky, wise, all or none of the above?

5 Comments Posted by on August 17, 2011

Before drawing up the charter, as it were, for The Displaced Nation in April, the site’s two Founding Mothers — Kate Allison and myself — and its one Founding Father, Anthony Windram, engaged in some vigorous debate over what the site’s “categories” should be. We had met through our blogs. What topics did we all [...]

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Youth writer Gabrielle Wang’s characters solve cross-cultural conundrums with magic and aplomb

9 Comments Posted by on July 27, 2011

The spirit of Pocahontas has been haunting The Displaced Nation this month, lending a helping hand to anyone who feels stymied by the strange customs they’ve encountered in other lands. This precocious Native American girl appears to have been naturally gifted in openness and tolerance — else how could she have become an intermediary between her [...]

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How foreign is Fez? A travel yarn in two parts (Part 2)

5 Comments Posted by on July 26, 2011

We welcome back Joy Richards to The Displaced Nation for the second part of her travel yarn about a trip she made in May to visit a British expat friend in Fez, Morocco. In Part 1, Richards learns about the Moroccan concept of hshuma (forbidden, shameful) and reveals she rather likes “covering up.” In Part 2, [...]

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Marriage, cross-cultural style: Two veterans tell all (Part 2)

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 25, 2011

A week is a long time in blogging, and since Part 1 of this post went up last Monday, horrifying events in Norway have delivered a chilling reminder of the venom that can be unleashed when cultures mix and values clash. Thus I am full of renewed admiration for our two married couples — Gabriela [...]

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How foreign is Fez? A travel yarn in two parts (Part 1)

22 Comments Posted by on July 22, 2011

We welcome Joy Richards to The Displaced Nation as a guest blogger. Though she lives and works in the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, UK, Richards seizes the opportunity to travel whenever she can. In May, she journeyed to Fez, Morocco, to visit an English friend who lives in that city. It was her [...]

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In fiction and in life, this expat pursues paradise

12 Comments Posted by on July 20, 2011

As regular readers of The Displaced Nation will know, Pocahontas is the heroine of our blog this month. Sprightly, playful, well-featured and solicitous — unencumbered by the corrupting influences of civilization, in tune with Nature — she, and other women of her ilk, conformed to the vision Europeans held of the New World. They were [...]

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