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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
cp is absolutely convinced Muslims have completely taken over London, it's the craziest **** you can imagine. Like there was one guy who had to go to London on a business trip and he said he spent all his time holed up in his hotel room.
Compared to America, it might feel that way.
A bit over 10% of the population of the UK is Muslim. Only 1% of the American population identifies as Muslim. Of course this doesn't factor in that most of those dolts haven't seen a Muslim in their entire lives.
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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon
This is some bogus math. Many USA #1 people in the bottom 50% don’t pay the average American $9k+ on healthcare.
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Oh? Is that because they are so much healthier than the richer people?
Probably because they don't have 9K to spare on healthcare. After all they are in the bottom 50%.
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
The other thing about assimilation I read recently was that America's birthright citizenship for children drives assimilation in the parents. Basically, immigrants with citizen children put their kids in school and have their kids do other American things, and their kids learning English and getting into American culture is a kick in the ass to the parents to do likewise. Parents with noncitizen kids tend to keep them in the insular immigrant community and do likewise themselves.
Makes sense the opposite way as well. For example, my former American colleagues in Spain got married and started a family there. They both have children who are as Spanish as your typical Spanish kid and by necessity they had to pick up the language to be able to operate as a family there.