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There is no more quiet part anymore [Feb 2024, referring to Obama] (lemmy.ml)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

we’re 25% non-citizens

Refusing to give citizenship to residents isn't a point in the country's favor.

That’s compared to 7-8% of the US population for example.

If you want to get historical, the US is north of 99% migrants. But setting aside the politics of generational migration, we also have birthright citizenship and marital citizenship laws that naturalize people at a far more consistent rate. And we have an enormous territory, such that you can move from New York to California or Puerto Rico to Alaska and still enjoy citizenship.

What do you call a huge influx of East Coasters into Texas, Colorado, and Arizona if not migration?

Let me know when the majority of the Swiss population is French, and then you can brag about your diversity.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I’m not bragging about diversity just replying to someone calling switzerland an ethnostate. Jeez!

And I wouldn’t brag about most the US population being migrants from a couple centuries ago because that comes with the fact you practically wiped out the native population.

If you’d like to compare the US and Switzerland without using citizenship you could use percentage or forgein born population. 37% of the Swiss population vs 18% of the US population.

But I didn’t mean to start a US vs Switzerland contest, I just used US based statistics in my previous answer to illustrate how Switzerland is not currently an ethnostate. Especially since Switzerland contains 4 distinctive ethnicities since centuries. Schywzerdütsch have a very different culture than swiss romands or swiss italians etc. We don’t even speak the same language…

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

And I wouldn’t brag about most the US population being migrants from a couple centuries ago

Most Americans are less than three generations old.