Re:You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes
by jeromegv on Saturday February 24, 2018 @10:45AM
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Americans always tend to use homogeneity as an argument when they compare themselves with other countries, like it’s somehow a good argument not to be as good as other countries in some aspects. Like you, I doubt that this is actually relevant. Canada is nothing but diverse, in a very similar way to the US and somehow it’s never used an excuse.
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Re:You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes
by alphamonster on Saturday February 24, 2018 @10:57AM
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Canada is much less (racially) diverse than the U.S.: 89% white and the largest minority group as asian with 6.7% versus the U.S. 66% white and 14.7% hispanic as the largest minority group. source: data compiled from census reports https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.mx/2011/03/us-vs-cana...
Re:You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes
by rayiner on Saturday February 24, 2018 @11:24AM
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> Canada is nothing but diverse, in a very similar way to the US and somehow it’s never used an excuse.
Less than 20% of Canada is a "visible minority." In the U.S., it's almost 40%. Toronto recently became a majority minority city. Washington, D.C. became a majority minority city sometime in the 1950s. In Chicago, it was sometime in the 1980s. Canada has no majority-minority provinces. Ontario is still 67% European (roughly on par with Connecticut). Our two largest states, California and Texas, are both majority-minority states.
Recency matters too. Much of Canada's diversity is very recent. American politics has in contrast been shaped by these conflicts for decades (really, from inception--we fought a whole civil war over race!).
Re:You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes
by muninn_ on Saturday February 24, 2018 @01:36PM
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Where immigrants come from matters too - family-based system vs points-based system.
Are you suggesting that it's not mostly accepted, sociologically, that ethnic diversity is correlated negatively with social cohesion? That was not my understanding. Do you have a citation that suggests otherwise?