"I think partly what we foreigners are good at is looking at America, not in a judgmental way, but wide-eyed, and seeing the things you take for granted and presenting them in a new way, " he added.
We rather get reminded of this when we foreigners forget to leave them a tip (I have actually had a waiter in NYC tell me, as I was sitting down, that he had to tell me as a foreigner that a 20% tip was normal).
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But most importantly, to the extent that we block foreigners from investing -- for raising funds in the United States, we probably undercut the viability of our own system.
We must show our unity, our cooperation among ourselves, before we can persuade foreigners to come here and help us in our economy.
"We were having an influx of foreigners visiting South Africa and we needed comment on it and we did it in a way that demonstrates the ignorance and the misconceptions that people have about our country, " says Ahmed Tilly, executive creative director at Nando's advertising agency.
But, as foreigners, we should be able to look at Russian society without any blinders.
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Imports are the sweat and labour of foreigners that we get to enjoy ourselves.
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If the dollar had not been a reserve currency in high demand by foreigners, we would have had to correct that foreign imbalance long ago.
It makes no difference whether we have a magic box that simply spouts electricity, some foreigners make it for us or we make it.
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"We went overseas and found foreigners liked us, " Sun Wenjing says.
Of course, one can argue that we should not complain when foreigners help American taxpayers, especially when the foreigners in question generally share our notions of international commerce.
Far from exposing mediocrity and incompetence, the games have challenged lazy assumptions about what kind of country we are - not just to foreigners but to ourselves.
Scary stuff, although at least the entitlements are sums we owe to ourselves, not to foreigners.
Instead of making tourist and immigration visas hard to get, we should push to get more wealthy foreigners to come to live here and to spend tourist dollars here.
And then we come to the bit that always amazes foreigners about the American legal system.
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"We want to start offering shares in Danamodal to foreigners right from the start, " says CEO Daud Dol Moin.
No broad disaster has resulted--yet--because foreigners are gladly lending us the money we need to pay for our capital investment.
What about this story that we, we mentioned earlier on today, the story about 100, 000 new, Labour to invite a 100, 000 foreigners a year into UK, ministers announce sweeping changes in immigration law to attract workers because we're short because of a severe skills shortage among British workers, is that a good idea?
"We want independent people to represent the country and not foreigners to talk about Kenya football, " Swaleh said.
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It can't be stressed enough that without our exchange of dollars for foreign imports, foreigners would lack the dollars to buy what we make.
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Another piece of the deficit has to do with the fact that the U.S. pays more to foreigners in profits, royalties and interest than we receive from them.
But ranting about the iniquities of exports is very strange indeed: especially when you and Lou are more normally ranting about the iniquities of imports, which is how we get to do exactly the same to all those foreigners.
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"We get all sorts here, including up to 9, 000 foreigners a year, " explained Nerone, the school's senior magister (instructor).
Any wealthy African with a conscience and some intellect should realize that it's about time that we step up ourselves and do as much for the continent as foreigners are doing.
Since we don t have the domestic savings to fund our own debt, and since and foreigners may not have the will or means to continue funneling their savings to the U.S., the result is that we must rely on current owners to rollover their debt on a continual basis.
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