The US is a melting pot culture and people accept these changes, but there’s no reason that European cultures need to replicate this in their own countries.
The Hispanic population of California was 13.7% in 1970. 19% in 1980, 39% in 2020:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanics_and_Latinos_in_Cal...
And over 55% of students in CA public schools today:
https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/enrethlevels.aspx?a...
The shift in demographics wasn't driven entirely by the increase in the Hispanic population, and in fact I didn’t mention Hispanic population at all. It also was in part driven by immigration from Asian countries.
Not sure why you’re calling me a liar.
But the numbers I provided are specifically for non-Hispanic whites, who never identified as Hispanic. The article is irrelevant to that demographic shift.
Not true.
Whether Texas or California, the land that is now the American southwest was almost completely empty before the Mexican War; about 80,000 hispanos, or about 1% of Mexico's prewar population, mostly in New Mexico and southern Colorado. They were very, very isolated, living in "islands", and were already dependent on the US, not Mexico, for trade <http://web.archive.org/web/20070517113110/http://www.pbs.org...>. The American takeover and attendant influx of settlers completely changed the region; by 1860 California alone had 380,000 people] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California#Pop...> and was a US state.
*85% of Mexican Americans today are from post-World War II immigration.* As late as 1970 <http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/05/01/a-demographic-portrait...> there were five million people of Mexican ethnicity in the US, including one million born in Mexico. Now there are 33.7 million and 11.4 million, respectively. The number of people of Mexican ethnicity has grown by ~16X in 75 years (from ~2 million in 1940), while the US population has grown by ~2.5X. Had the Mexican-ethnic population grown by the same rate as the broader US there would be 5 million today, not 33.7.
History, even recent history, has been rewritten in peoples' minds by popular culture. Los Angeles's stupendous growth in the first half of the 20th century was driven almost entirely off of internal US migration. So many Iowans moved to LA that it was joked that southern California should be renamed "Caliowa". Almost everything we think of about the city, demographically speaking, is a post-1970 phenomenon.
According to Census estimates <http://web.archive.org/web/20080912052919/https://www.census...>, the city of Los Angeles was 7.1% Hispanic (almost all Mexican, of course) in 1940, and 15-17% in 1970. In 1990—let me repeat, two decades later—it was 39.9%. The non-Hispanic white population went from 86.3% in 1940, to 61-63% in 1970, to 37.3% in 1990. As of 2020 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#Race_and_ethnicity> the city is 46.9% Hispanic and 28.9% non-Hispanic white.
"We didn't cross the border; the border crossed us" is only true for the aforementioned hispanos. If alien space bats had rotated the contiguous US 180 degrees in 1945, all other Mexican Americans would be living in Buffalo and Portland and Boston and Rochester and Detroit. Those cities would be known as the home of Cal-Mex and Tex-Mex cuisine, not LA and El Paso and Phoenix.
Sub-Saharan Africa and some Middle Eastern countries are pretty much the only places left with high fertility rates:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_f...
But we may need to consider more solutions than simply using Africa and the Middle East as a breeding ground to populate the rest of the world?
Asians and south Americans integrate well. Not just in USA, in Europe as well. My country accepted over 500k of Ukrainian refugees into population of just 10m. They integrate outstandingly.
I am not one of the haters that would claim that immigrants are "ruining our culture" but I see issues. Example: the support Hamas gets in certain communities.
I would be interested what would Americans say if a huge influx of North African and Middle Eastern people arrive to USA.
The problem is the false dichotomy that because one side is wrong the other one is right. In reality, both sides in the conflict have done wrong, before and during the conflict.
We can all agree that killing an infant or toddler is universally wrong. And under that definition they're both wrong. Excuses just makes it worse.
I believe the vast majority of the Middle Eastern people in California are Persians. Again, that's a nationality that fares well in inclusion even in Europe.
I am all for immigration, we need it, we are an aging continent. But we should be a little bit more picky and cautious. And I am not saying we should not get any people from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Horn of Africa, it's just often people coming from these countries have a risky mix of low education and culture that doesn't respect women or institutions.
And it's not islamophobia from me, that's why I specifically say culture, not religion. Persians are often muslims and fine, same for Indonesians or Turks.
Problem is we can't have meaningful and polite debate about it like I have with you - you get immediately labeled as racist or xenophobe. Thus the sad rise of far right groups in Europe.
On this note, I am sad that someone is downvoting/flagging you.
Also, if you're suggesting the issue is sharia law or something similar, it's weird to list Iran as ok but Syria/Iraq as anti-woman etc. Other way around there.
Geographic proximity makes Europe a prime destination for all the people who don't have the means to immigrate to the US.
Europe has taken in many young men from war torn countries and those men have different standards that sometimes are not compatible with western standards.
You can be all high an mighty and cast blame. But the actual issue is that there are different economical sets of immigrants.
Europe has immigrant ghettos where police are too scared to even be present.
Obviously there are many great immigrants from all backgrounds that are trying to make a better live for themselves, but we can't deny that there are issues.
It also helps that most Americans are not direct, so we can all pretend to get along. Whereas in other cultures, like Dutch, Oceaniac, Egyptian, etc., it would be made plain when someone has a problem with you.
These are either positives or negatives depending on one's values, and incentives.