Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America

Re:Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in A... by endisneigh on Friday October 06, 2023 @08:48AM (#37790059)

I'm talking about citizenship. I'm not familiar with every single country's policies, but it's simply a fact that the USA is more accommodating to immigrants than Germany and France, for example. France for instance barely provides support for English speakers, god forbid any other country.

An immigrant who finds themselves in New York City, to contrast, will see that the city provides government assistance in dozens of languages and proof of address and things of that nature aren't even required.

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Re:Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in A... by Gravityloss on Friday October 06, 2023 @08:59AM (#37790193)

Maybe some bigger countries have this expectation that most people talk their main language and movies are dubbed etc. Certainly also USA.

Smaller countries this is not the case. For example in nordic countries you can get by quite fine with English.

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