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Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two by ummonk on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:18AM (#19086689)
That is the point isn't it? European countries finally start catching up to the US in the size of their immigrant population, and all of a sudden you're seeing massive social upheaval and populist movements popping up everywhere.
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Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two by mr_overalls on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:50AM (#19087035)
> European countries finally start catching up to the US in the size of their immigrant population,

No. Several European countries have had significant foreign-born populations for a long time.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/549292/foreign-born-popu...

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Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two by sol_remmy2 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:07PM (#19087209)
Those stats count an immigrant from any neighboring Western European country as foreign born. That makes them highly misleading compared to the US. In the US, a person from a different state does not count as an immigrant.
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Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two by moreira on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:50PM (#19087614)
Of course not, but a state is not a country. Germany has 16 states, for example, and the statistics don't count people from different states as immigrants.

However, a person from a neighbouring country (e.g. Mexico) would count as an immigrant in the US.

Just because states are massive in the US doesn't make them equivalent to different countries in Europe, which all have their own language, ethnic background, and culture. A German person moving 350 miles to Italy (from Munich to Venice) is definitely an immigrant, with a completely different background, even though the distance itself isn't even enough to go between Austin and Houston in Texas.

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Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two by tkxxx7 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:11PM (#19091046)
I think GP's point is more that there are many more surrounding countries from which immigration is easier, than in the U.S.
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Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two by ScottBurson on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @12:38PM (#19097469)
There may be more cultural distance between Austin and Houston than you think :-)
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Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two by ummonk on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:52PM (#19088442)
Percent foreign born isn’t really a good metric of the level of racial, ethnic, and religious diversity.
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