Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born

Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by toasterlovin on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:30PM (#22261158)

> historically Mexicans have been in the US forever

As recently as 1940, Hispanics made up only 1.5% of the US. Population. As of 2010, they made up 16.3% of the U.S. population (about 50 million people). As a point of reference, Canada has a population of about 37 million people and the UK has a population of 63 million people. So we have imported roughly an entire Canada/UK's worth of people from Latin America. As far as I am aware, immigration of this scale is basically unprecedented in human history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...

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Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by TheCoelacanth on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:35PM (#22262017)

Wait until you hear about how much the population of white people increased in the 17th century.

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Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by toasterlovin on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:25PM (#22262703)

I guess what I meant to say is: population movements of this scale occurring without violence and genocide.

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