Countries by foreign-born population. Sweden’s pretty high up there. In fact, these four things seem to go together across the board, though there are outliers like Saudi Arabia (many immigrants, still an absolute monarchy).
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Yeah, but some of them are going to have to be Martian or Andorian or something to make up for the limited human color palette. And you won’t get to see them much if your grandkids live on Mars.
Learn your American history. These types of fears have been common throughout American history and have always been overblown.
There were serious fears that German would supplant English. Also of significant Italian or Czech (at least in Texas) or Chinese enclaves where the people spoke no English.
Guess what? Their children learned English. In fact, in Texas, we’ve got the reverse problem. Many of the descendents of the Czech and German immigrants are forgetting their language and heritage.
It’s a common story: fears of immigrants displacing local culture. A generation passes. Fears of loss of heritage among descendants of immigrants. Hell, there’s a significant different between immigrant and native-born Hispanics in Texas. Both Texas and California are prime examples of how a few decades change things. The Hispanic people who have been born and raised here for a couple hundred years are culturally distinct from immigrants and speak and use perfect English.
If our great great grandchildren really are speaking something other than English, it’ll be something on top of English, not instead of English.
No, if you look at the wiki-page you will see that there is no Swedish version of it. It is just highly educated people like me who know anything about it in Sweden.
Noteworthy is that Ben Franklin never visited Sweden. The people employed at the embassy were probably mostly French people or mixed French-Swedish. A mix of a French person and a Swedish person usually means a French person by looks, because we Swedes have such precious recessive genes.
You do know that there are a lot of genetic diseases that are due to recessive genes, right? And that the people who have the most recessive genes are those whose parents were closely related? I’m not so sure that recessive genes are something to brag about.
Israeli immigration doesn’t count because Israel already has an ethnically-discriminatory immigration policy. To Raleigh, that trumps any danger of having such a vast foreign-born population. They’re all Jews, so it’s all good. Or something like that.
