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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by habinero on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:17PM (#45317014)
It's only "not helpful" because you don't have a good argument against it. :)

Also, the founders were not British. Most of them were second and third generation immigrants.

In addition, I don't think you realize how funny this statement is:

> Ethnic politics had little opportunity to arise in these communities, which were individually mono cultural

I wonder if you can spot the massive gaping hole in this logic. I doubt it.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by newfriend on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:36PM (#45317233)
Being born in a British colony in the early 1700s to British subject parents did in fact mean you were also a British subject. Several were also born in Great Britain proper. They were also nearly all ethnically English or Scottish.

Indeed, most of the founding fathers were British.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by rayiner on Saturday September 20, 2025 @09:52PM (#45319332)
The Washington family was British landed gentry dating to the 12th century. Their ancestral home dates to the late 1100s.
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