President Donald J. Trump "If those countries weren't 'sh*tholes', why do their people want to come here (meaning the United States)?" I tend to hear that quite a lot. Not exactly in those words, but with the exact same idea behind it. Would the fact of Wikipedia asserting that �in 2016, the U.S. State Department estimated that there are 9 million U.S. citizens living abroad� turn the United States into a sh*thole? Apparently not; so we must look elsewhere for why other countries under equivalent circumstances are labelled as such. The English-language French newspaper The Local [thelocal.fr] says: �The number of French expats rose by 2 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, making a total increase of 4.14 percent in two years. There [sic] total number of French nationals registered abroad has reached 1.7 million, according to France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs�. It continues: �However, while the figures reflect the growing tendency to move abroad, t...
