Non-Hispanic Whites Now Minority Births

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I'm sorry but I have to say I expected this sort of complacency from the Americans on this board.

Why are you sorry? It's great!

So apparently I'm wrong because I'm looking at this from a "European perspective". The thing is, there's no reason to believe that if certain patterns are observed in Europe and the same conditions existed in the USA, the patterns could not be observed there as well.

That's right. America is not Europe. Many of us might have European roots, but we're not Europeans. America is not a genetic pattern or a color of one's skin, it's a state of mind. Which is why anybody can become 100% American even if they were born and raised elsewhere.

I know there is this idea that America is somehow immune to Balkanization, and that it is infinitely superior to any other nation on the planet and its supposedly tolerant and diverse nature means that it can assimilate any ethnic group.

We can and we do. What's our secret? We do not try to assimilate anybody. Nobody is required to learn English, nobody is required to accept American values or American culture. At the same time, we do not babysit anyone. Everyone is free to succeed or fail.

But there's no reason to believe all that. Your ability to assimilate different immigrant groups is a national myth. American might think the Irish or Germans count, but tbh in Europe if somebody moved from one (western) European state to another, I don't think they would even be considered an immigrant by most people.

I find that hard to believe. We hosted a couple of Germans from the parent corporation back a few months ago, and they just kept on harping about how they hate the Dutch. That was after we told them that there are lots of Dutch-Americans in Michigan.

The fact is that the demographic changes taking place in America right now are unprecendented, America has never faced anything like it before.

Been there done that. The Irish, the Chinese, the Jews, the [insert an ethnicity here].