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Isn't this a meaningless statement to begin with? Every nation is a nation of immigrants if you go back far enough.
by loggedinmyphone 9y ago
Isn't this a meaningless statement to begin with? Every nation is a nation of immigrants if you go back far enough.
- 0xcafecafe 9y agoNot really. Unlike other nations, the idea of modern american nation was born from the hard work of european "immigrant" pioneers going back only a few centuries and that of other immigrants thereafter. This just seems more like closing the door behind me.
- loggedinmyphone 9y agoThis is what happens with all nations. Germany for example, being settled by the Volkswanderung (migration) in the 8th Century, which displaced the previous inhabitants. Every nation starts as a nation of immigrants and then stops being so once it has an established population.