For years, millions of foreigners living legally in the United States saw no urgency in applying for citizenship.
Every year, thousands of foreigners are issued special visas to come to the United States and work for foreign diplomats.
Every year, thousands of foreigners are brought to the United States, mainly to New York and Washington, to work in the homes of diplomats: cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping and caring for the diplomats' children.
"Now my parents aren't here, I'm pushing myself harder," she says, face crumpling.For some years, large inflows of foreigners prompted calls to "demagnetise" Tennessee.
As political stability and general elections have come to the country in recent years, the number of foreigners moving to Burma has increased.
Scores of foreign prostitutes have arrived in Kabul in recent years, along with the influx of foreigners and foreign assistance.
Wooridul Spine Hospital said it expected to draw about 1,000 foreign patients and $1 million in revenue from their treatments in 2008, its third year of wooing foreigners.
By contrast, about 10 million tourists visit the city every year, and thousands of foreigners and non-Venetian Italians own houses there, forcing up house prices beyond the means of local people.
To Murong Xuecun, a well-known Chinese author, the program revealed a national psyche, fed by decades of Communist Party propaganda, that craves vengeance for the years of humiliation by foreigners.
They have two main demands, which they imagine will reverse 500 years of oppression by foreigners and fellow Bolivians: nationalisation of oil and gas, and a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution.Their critics allege that the social movements are themselves puppets of foreign interests seeking to replace Bolivia's democracy with a socialist dictatorship.
