Then people started moving around
Maybe western Europeans started moving around but, for example, my family is from Slovakia where folks have been in place forever. There may be some blood introduced by invaders--Mongols or Romans or whatever, but families didn't uproot. A little mixing with the Poles in the north or the Hungarians in the south but that's it. I imagine that the folks living in Botswana have been there for generations, too. Likewise Peru and Tibet. You find Indians and Chinese in small numbers throughout the world but most folks stay put. Countries like Canada, Australia, and the US are unique in their diversity.
Is it total foreign born, or is it ethnic background?
Foreign born is foreign born. 27.8% Foreign born (13.8% Latin America, 8.1% Asia)
Ancestries: Irish (12.8%), German (12.6%), English (11.5%), Italian (5.1%), United States (3.3%), Scottish (2.8%).
It really does seem high to have an entire county with 28% foreign born.
You just have to look around you and see that it's probably accurate. It's hard to tell because who knows whether the kids were born here or not. But when you encounter broken English, or no English, which is very common, you can reasonably assume immigrant. I can easily make a trip to the grocery store and not hear English spoken in the aisles, and barely at the checkout. There are so many languages now that I don't recognize all of them anymore.
Personally, I love the color and texture of the place. But I've pretty much given up ordering from my car in a fast food restaurant. Between those lousy speakers and the heavy accents, it's impossible to communicate an order. <g> |
