{"id":9876,"date":"2016-12-15T14:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T08:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=9876"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:56:30","slug":"brexit-from-kathmandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/brexit-from-kathmandu\/","title":{"rendered":"#Brexit…From Kathmandu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To begin with, I shared in the grief that friends in the UK felt when the country voted for #Brexit.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was — and still am — aware of some of the negative consequences of that to the country and the people of the UK. What’s more, many of those people are friends of mine! As a matter of fact, I have loads of friends in the country — both British and non-Brits. (I read with horror details of many of the immediate social consequences.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of those British friends are friends from my time as a student in Italy, the US and UK itself, between 1988 and 1994. Many others are non-Brit friends living, studying and working in the country who are also friends of mine from that same period. Many others are British friends, students and families from my time working in London, way back in 2003-04!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have others in the country who are friends, colleagues, students and families of students from my years as an international teacher in nine countries around the world between 1994 and 2013! And there are those who don’t fall into any of those categories, namely Nepalese friends, who — for one reason or another — have now made UK their home, and others, who I met as a traveller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of those friends are dear, dear friends…really dear friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, I have felt — and continue to feel — for the country and people of UK and the situation they are in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT, having studied and lived in the country, I also know how British humor is full of self-deprecation. The Brits readily and easily laugh at themselves. (See video below…obviously!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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