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Are immigrants and their children likely to be richer, eat better, etc?

There would need to be research done, nothing has been said if these people were all immigrants to Barcelona or the wages they were on, my guess is they are probably not truly random and replication will be difficult if we chose say bilingual in Wales, for example.

There is not reason to think that inmigrant population is over-represented in the hospitals. Would be more logical to expect the opposite, in fact, as some immigrants could be more reluctant to go to the hospitals.

This study was not about an immigrant population: "we looked at whether in Barcelona – where everyone is more or less bilingual..."

Those who are bilingual, yes.

> Those who are bilingual, yes.

Wouldn't immigrants by nature have to be bilingual because they have to be able to communicate in the nation they immigrated to?

At least in the US, there are millions of people who don't speak English well or at all. Source: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2014/acs/acs-26...

Go out. Look around. Talk to some people about their parents.

There's a lot of immigration from Latin America though.

People that speaks fluent clingon must appear in the Forbes list then.

Someday I'd like to hear the lines

    - What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?

    - My lord, he doth deny to come.

    - Off with his son George's head!

in the original Klingon. Pursuing the synergy-recognising creative destruction of a Stanley[1] is no doubt in the wheelhouse of some on on the Forbes list.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field#Stanl...

If I were to immigrate to Barcelona I would learn (Galician) Spanish, but perhaps not Catalan. (Though it’s a beautiful language.) I guess I would count as monolingual in their study.

Galician Spanish? Do you mean Castillian Spanish (which is another name for normal spanish)? Galician is a separate language

You can speak Spanish tainted by Galician words and modisms also. Is very common in Spanish speakers. The whole communication can be a 90% spanish and 10% Galician (or the opposite).

Thank you, I meant Castillian Spanish.

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