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> America is undisputedly the best country at assimililating immigrants. I'll dispute it.

  - Foreign-born US citizens: 14%
  - Foreign-born Australian citizens: 28% (without British, 21%)

Despite all the accusations of racism that Australia gets, we have a far higher proportion of foreign-born citizens than any other western democracy. The country seems to be doing fine.

edit: US is 14%. UK is 12% (as I originally had it). The comparison doesn't really change much, though.

Foreign-born immigrants are recent immigrants. If you change your time frame the results might be different.

If you're born in a country, you're not an immigrant. These people are sometimes called "second-generation immigrants", but they're not actually immigrants themselves. Australia has plenty of those as well (like any postwar new-world Anglo country does)

Still, I'm interested to see how you'd fiddle with the timeframe to make the results functionally different. Show me how you see it being different.

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