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In article <rdavis.728008225@connie.de.convex.com> rdavis@convex.com (Ray Davis) writes:
>
>Sure.  Not to agree or dissagree with the foreperson's comments, I'd
>note that the density of immigrants to native born Americans is low
>enough to almost go unnoticed.  Think about it - the US is a huge
>place.  It doesn't have a bunch of other countries with vastly different
>cultures around it ('taint much difference in Canada except the language
>in Quebec, and Mexico is a wonderful place - but poor).  Why do you
>think USA-nians (don't be sorry!) are amazed that so many Europeans
>(Uk-nians not included) speak more than one language. [whoa! schwing!]
>

I don't know about Texas, but California has a very high percentage of
immigrants from all over the world.

There are large populations of Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Italians, &
Portughese who originally came here after the gold rush. More recently, there
are additional waves of immigrants from China, Taiwan, teh Phillipines,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Central America, and more recently the various
ex-Soviet countries. There are also many Indians, Persians, and others
to add to this melting pot.

This is in addition to the steady stream of European immigrants such as myself.

In any Silicon VAlley company, you will find a typical department has
people from all over the world. MAny people speak more than one language, and
often the second language is an Asian rather than a European language. The most
common second language of course is Spanish, and almost everyone knows a few
words.

I would be very surprised if the US does not in fact have the highest immigrant
population of any developed nation.

Jim Munro