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Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google? by aroberge on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:59AM (#15711735)
Canada would disagree with you. One in five people living in Canada was born in another country [1]. Canada is officially a multicultural country [2]. Yet, there is a lot more trust and a lot less social strife than in the U.S., to use a comparison with the article you quote from the U.S.

[1] http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-01...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Multiculturalism_Act

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Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google? by Chris2048 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:07AM (#15712040)
Isn't that cherry picking? At least in terms of the US. Why not compare the US to Japan?
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Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google? by aroberge on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:11PM (#15717895)
The person I was replying to was referring to a study about the U.S.
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Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google? by Chris2048 on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:59AM (#15720645)
Cherry-picking Canada vs Japan to compare the US to.
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