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kukabynd
I’ve been working on a tool for making products using vertically integrated stack of an editor, renderer, and collaborative workspace. It was a lot technically.

This product is a first real tangible outcome which I’m still working on. Any ideas and feedback would be greatly appreciated.

The reason for product to exist is to explain how to access the greatest financial market in the world as a foreigner who can travel to the US to get:

- customer protection

- free float

- acquire points for hotels, flights

None of it is new to financially-savvy Americans but few foreigners know that anyone (other than citizens of embargoed countries) can access the same tool belt.

paulkrush
So in my echo chamber I rarely here the word "foreign" meaning outside of the country. I only hear it as: "This is different to me." I am been wondering for a while now: Where is this word really in use now? Do import cars become foreign outside of the city? Do your parents say this?
kukabynd
Interesting. To me foreigner is a synonym for non-resident/alien. How do you interpret it?

Dictionary says it’s `a person belonging to or owing allegiance to a foreign country`.

paulkrush
Same here. That's what it meant when I was growing up 40 years ago, but you don't here anyone saying this any more. I asked my son and he only said "unknown". It's interesting because foreign(not from the US) people, food, and customs are pretty normal. I would say they are not unknown. So I want to hope that proper usage of the word, not politically correctness has pushed it away. BTW: If you think your usage is normal, it might be. I am not your target audience.
kukabynd
Well, My target audience definitely interprets foreigner as gaijin, farang, gringo, etc.