This is how I imagine foreigners are looking at Americans claiming they’re going to “starve”

@swirlie they mean people outside of the US.

@swirlie anyone from the outside of the usa looking in

@DeluxedEdition
I thought those were called "aliens"?

Americans usually refer to people from outside the USA as "aliens", not foreigners.

@swirlie only when it suits their political needs. Or immigrants too.

@BillyMack
Usually people who live in Great Britain refer to anyone outside the UK as "foreigners", even if those foreigners come from a British Commonwealth country. Americans don't typically refer to people who live outside the USA as foreigners unless those Americans were originally from Britain.

@swirlie I’m American. Never lived in the UK. I don’t use the term aliens. I’d say foreigners too.

But hey. You do you.

@BillyMack
Americans use the term "alien" when referring to a non-American and it's always been that way in the USA. If you say "foreigner", then you are probably someone who immigrated to the United States from another country and became a US citizen after starting out as a Landed Immigrant.

@swirlie you’re doing too much. it’s just a word 😂

An outdated word to be specific. Nobody says alien anymore. Not even when referring to illegal aliens. People just say “illegals”

@DeluxedEdition
I'm not actually generalizing!

@DeluxedEdition I gladly use the word alien. It is someone that is where they are not supposed to be. Not a visitor, not an immigrant, not a guest worker.