The sugar industry was transformed from a run-down, unprofitable, inhuman, paternalistic and plantocratic expatriate family concern into a rehabilitated, forward-looking, productive and dynamic enterprise.
The white population of that era contained a large transient element and many white people might better be considered foreign expatriates than settlers.
There are also expatriate executives that are appointed by local companies in distant countries rather than being posted there by foreign multinational corporations.
