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Are immigrants and their children likely to be richer, eat better, etc?
by drdrey 6y ago
Are immigrants and their children likely to be richer, eat better, etc?
- Koshkin 6y agoThose who are bilingual, yes.
- The_Precursor 6y ago> Those who are bilingual, yes. Wouldn't immigrants by nature have to be bilingual because they have to be able to communicate in the nation they immigrated to?
- tuatoru 6y agoGo out. Look around. Talk to some people about their parents.
- umanwizard 6y agoAt least in the US, there are millions of people who don't speak English well or at all. Source: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2014/acs/acs-26.pdf https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2014/acs/acs-26...
- Franciscouzo 6y agoThere's a lot of immigration from Latin America though.
- pvaldes 6y agoPeople that speaks fluent clingon must appear in the Forbes list then.
- 082349872349872 6y agoSomeday I'd like to hear the lines - What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power? - My lord, he doth deny to come. - Off with his son George's head! in the original Klingon. Pursuing the synergy-recognising creative destruction of a Stanley[1] is no doubt in the wheelhouse of some on on the Forbes list. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field#Stanleys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field#Stanl...
- andy_ppp 6y agoThere would need to be research done, nothing has been said if these people were all immigrants to Barcelona or the wages they were on, my guess is they are probably not truly random and replication will be difficult if we chose say bilingual in Wales, for example.
- lolc 6y agoThis study was not about an immigrant population: "we looked at whether in Barcelona – where everyone is more or less bilingual..."
- pvaldes 6y agoThere is not reason to think that inmigrant population is over-represented in the hospitals. Would be more logical to expect the opposite, in fact, as some immigrants could be more reluctant to go to the hospitals.
- hibbelig 6y agoIf I were to immigrate to Barcelona I would learn (Galician) Spanish, but perhaps not Catalan. (Though it’s a beautiful language.) I guess I would count as monolingual in their study.
- lentil_soup 6y agoGalician Spanish? Do you mean Castillian Spanish (which is another name for normal spanish)? Galician is a separate language