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Originally Posted by drex
considering i am 1/2 immigrant (1971) and 1/2 immigrant (1700s), you question is what?
all americans are immigrant with the exception of the few north american indians who remain here today.
aren't you lucky it is us at your southern border, and not mexico, or iran, or iraq?  |
Canadians pretty much fit the same profile, unless one is aboriginal one is an immigrant or a descendent of an immigrant. I think the point was that if the US is peace-loving, why is the violent crime rate 3 x that of its northern neighbour. The counterpoint was that Canada was apparently a white-bread society, without an ethnic mix like the US. Pure BS. Hence the ethnic mix chart. Perhaps a better slice is the number of new citizens per capita. See the link. (I should credit the poster who first used nationmaster; it is nice and easy to use)
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/im...ips-per-capita
Now we are probably going to hear that all the crime in the US is from illegal aliens.
As to your second point, I don't have a comment on which country I would rather have at my border, but know that for all the ribbing we give the USA (peace-loving?), I highly value the relations that our two countries and peoples maintain. That long, unguarded border is a precious thing.
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