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> America is undisputedly the best country at assimililating immigrants. I'll dispute it. - Foreign-born US citizens: 14% - Foreign-born Australian citizen
by vacri 11y ago
> America is undisputedly the best country at assimililating immigrants.
I'll dispute it.
- Foreign-born US citizens: 14%
- Foreign-born Australian citizens: 28% (without British, 21%)
Despite all the accusations of racism that Australia gets, we have a far higher proportion of foreign-born citizens than any other western democracy. The country seems to be doing fine.
edit: US is 14%. UK is 12% (as I originally had it). The comparison doesn't really change much, though.
- underdown 11y agoForeign-born immigrants are recent immigrants. If you change your time frame the results might be different.
- vacri 11y agoIf you're born in a country, you're not an immigrant. These people are sometimes called "second-generation immigrants", but they're not actually immigrants themselves. Australia has plenty of those as well (like any postwar new-world Anglo country does) Still, I'm interested to see how you'd fiddle with the timeframe to make the results functionally different. Show me how you see it being different.