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If you take a look at a list of countries ranked by foreign-born population: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-born_population_in_2005

by jquery 13y ago

If you take a look at a list of countries ranked by foreign-born population: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-born_population_in_2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-bo... USA is ranked #1... by a huge margin. The fact we rank so low on your cited Wikipedia page is a evidence to my assertion that we "get along". Unlike so many other countries, we integrate and assimilate our immigrants.

dalke 13y ago
You didn't say "foreign born", you said "enormous diversity." Those are very different concepts. "Unlike so many other countries, we integrate and assimilate our immigrants" What does 'diverse' mean to you? Since I don't think it means what you think it means. Assimilation is a process which reduces diversity. Also, in that list the US is indeed #1 ... in the total number of immigrants. If you re-sort by "Immigrants as percentage of national population" then it's: UAE - 83.7% (but I don't include guest workers) Saudi Arabia - 31.4% Australia - 27.7% Canada - 20.7 % United States - 14.3% By all metrics, it seems that Canada has both a more diverse culture than the US and a higher percentage of immigrants than the US. That's the country you should be praising, not the US. The main factor in all of these numbers is that the US has a high population. Once you switch to per-capita, it drops in the ranks. Congratulations, there's a lot of people living in the US.
- subsystem 13y ago
  Yes, that really is a useless metric since the US has four times the population of the next most populous western country (Germany). And btw: Sweden - 15.9% http://esa.un.org/unmigration/migrantstocks2013.htm?mtotals http://esa.un.org/unmigration/migrantstocks2013.htm?mtotals
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    > Yes, that really is a useless metric since the US has four times the population of the next most populous western country (Germany). After the US, the next most popular country of those generally considered "Western" is Brazil; the US has a little over 1.5× the population of Brazil. Number 3 is Mexico. Germany's number four.
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by jquery 13y ago

dalke 13y ago

You didn't say "foreign born", you said "enormous diversity." Those are very different concepts. "Unlike so many other countries, we integrate and assimilate our immigrants" What does 'diverse' mean to you? Since I don't think it means what you think it means. Assimilation is a process which reduces diversity. Also, in that list the US is indeed #1 ... in the total number of immigrants. If you re-sort by "Immigrants as percentage of national population" then it's: UAE - 83.7% (but I don't include guest workers) Saudi Arabia - 31.4% Australia - 27.7% Canada - 20.7 % United States - 14.3% By all metrics, it seems that Canada has both a more diverse culture than the US and a higher percentage of immigrants than the US. That's the country you should be praising, not the US. The main factor in all of these numbers is that the US has a high population. Once you switch to per-capita, it drops in the ranks. Congratulations, there's a lot of people living in the US.

subsystem 13y ago
Yes, that really is a useless metric since the US has four times the population of the next most populous western country (Germany). And btw: Sweden - 15.9% http://esa.un.org/unmigration/migrantstocks2013.htm?mtotals http://esa.un.org/unmigration/migrantstocks2013.htm?mtotals
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Yes, that really is a useless metric since the US has four times the population of the next most populous western country (Germany). After the US, the next most popular country of those generally considered "Western" is Brazil; the US has a little over 1.5× the population of Brazil. Number 3 is Mexico. Germany's number four.

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