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> Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion wikipedia. You are a

• Retric 2y ago
  ~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.
  • adriancr 2y ago
    Source?
    • Retric 2y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat...
      • adriancr 2y ago
        > aren’t native English speakers Where does it state this? Do you assume that all immigrants are non-native english speakers?
        • Retric 2y ago
          By coming from different country their native language (IE what language they heard as infants) more closely resembles that country than America. Note I said 47 million and there are more than 47 million immigrants. There are also some native born Americans to immigrants who also don’t have English as their first language and People born in China whose first language is English, but that’s ever smaller refinements on a specific estimate.
          • adriancr 2y ago
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            • Retric 2y ago
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              • adriancr 2y ago
                You made this statement which is wrong: > ~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country. Your link says 46M total which includes native speakers. So it does not state how many non-native speakers. (not that it would matter as most would be proficient english speakers, just pointing out you're exagerating and your numbers are wrong)
                • Retric 2y ago
                  Link is showing slightly outdated data as is common on Wikipedia, but the breakdown by country is what’s important. “About 47.8 million immigrants in 2023” https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-immigrants-are-in-the-us/country/united-states/ https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-immigrants-are-in-the-...
                  • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
                    My family immigrated. We’re native English speakers from India.
                    • Retric 2y ago
                      So immigration had zero impact on your family being a native English speaker. And again 47 < 47.8
                  • adriancr 2y ago
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  • switchbak 2y ago
    Who cares if they're native English speakers or not, as long as they can converse in the language?
    • Retric 2y ago
      shortrounddev2 who brought the topic up without knowing the numbers.