Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Radical Islam

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I keep hearing conservative critics lambasting President Obama again and again over his refusal to say the words “radical Islam” when talki...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Rio Games

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The Summer Olympics finally came to a close in Rio this past weekend, with greatly disappointing results for the Finns. All and all, Finla...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Trump's Sacrifice

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In the curious case of Donald Trump’s fight with Khizr Khan, the Muslim American who lost a son in the Iraq War, Trump keeps digging in his...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

National Colors

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On Sunday, I went running in the nearby woods with my wife, only the second time since last summer.  When I say “running”, I mean “joggin...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Jan from Chattanooga

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In a recent version of Slate’s excellent Trumpcast podcast , the host Jacob Weisberg interviewed a listener, Jan from Chattanooga, about why...
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Kent Tankersley
I’m an expatriate American living in Finland, where to my utter surprise, I’ve somehow spent half of the fifty-odd years of my life, so far. Time does have a way of sneaking up on you. As an American and long-time resident in a foreign land, I often feel pulled between two worlds, no longer completely familiar with the land of my birth after so many years and yet not always a full-fledged member of the society where I’ve made my home. Call it the dilemma of the expat. You gain new experiences when you stray far from home and broaden your horizons, but you lose something as well. Finland, an unassuming country on the fringes of Western Europe, is not the most obvious place for someone from a tiny town in North Georgia to find themselves. How the hell did I get here? And why do I stay?
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