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So, the US is 87.2% native American? Or are we only counting the first generation as "foreign born"?
by BashiBazouk 14y ago
So, the US is 87.2% native American? Or are we only counting the first generation as "foreign born"?
- lkbm 14y agoLooking back a single generation might be too short a timespan to get a good gauge of homogeneity, but I think going back five hundred years, several hundred years before the foundation of the nation would be far less meaningful, to the point of absurdity.
- BashiBazouk 14y agoI probably phrased it poorly. I was trying to point out that populations in the US mostly come from somewhere else and how quickly each group homogenize with the rest of the population differs greatly per group and region.
- msh 14y agoEverybody on the American continent come from somewhere else, humans originally developed in Africa after all.
- dalke 14y ago"Foreign born" has a specific, well-defined meaning. It refers to a person born someplace other than the person's country of residence. Some foreign born people are immigrants, though "immigrant" is an ambiguous term which can include the native born descendants of foreign-born people. The term foreign born also includes non-immigrants, like temporary ex-pats working overseas for 5 years and students getting a foreign education. The term "foreign born" is used in part so as to avoid the debate you are attempting to provoke.