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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:17 PM Original message |
Funny, sad and true |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. a few years ago I was working with some foreign students |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. That's the main reason I hear too |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. That's the opposite impression I get from my foreign friends |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yeah, I guess that's why there's "only" 40 million foreign-born residents in the U.S. |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Duh! |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. "And the well deserved stereotype of all Americans being arrogant and mean" |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. And you are correct |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. 40 MILLION???? |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Congressional Research Service |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
7. I was in Latin America recently and met not one person who'd even want to visit here |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. A friend of mine returned to Honduras during the uprising in '09 |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Bingo. |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 12:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. The plural of anecdote is not data. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. There's six billion People on the planet. 40 million isn't statistically significant..... |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:04 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Ten years before that it was America |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. 13 % of U.S. population. Do you know any other country which has attracted so many foreigners? |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Israel? |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Good catch. Israel is probably #1. |
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laundry_queen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:33 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. 1 in 5 in Canada are foreign-born. 19.8% nt |
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laundry_queen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. NM, I see you were talking total numbers. nt |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Doesn't sound like you travel much outside of the country. |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Sure, but that's an indication of what people have already done |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Not true. The last ten years have been boom years for immigration. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 01:22 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Thank you for saying so eloquently what I said so poorly. n/t |
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