~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.

switchbak a year ago | parent | next [-]

Who cares if they're native English speakers or not, as long as they can converse in the language?

	▲	Retric a year ago \| parent [-]
		shortrounddev2 who brought the topic up without knowing the numbers.

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adriancr a year ago | parent | prev [-]

Source?

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Retric a year ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat...

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adriancr a year ago | parent [-]

> aren’t native English speakers

Where does it state this?

Do you assume that all immigrants are non-native english speakers?

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Retric a year ago | parent [-]

By coming from different country their native language (IE what language they heard as infants) more closely resembles that country than America. Note I said 47 million and there are more than 47 million immigrants.

There are also some native born Americans to immigrants who also don’t have English as their first language and People born in China whose first language is English, but that’s ever smaller refinements on a specific estimate.

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adriancr a year ago | parent [-]

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Retric a year ago | parent [-]

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adriancr a year ago | parent [-]

You made this statement which is wrong:

> ~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.

Your link says 46M total which includes native speakers. So it does not state how many non-native speakers. (not that it would matter as most would be proficient english speakers, just pointing out you're exagerating and your numbers are wrong)

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Retric a year ago | parent [-]

Link is showing slightly outdated data as is common on Wikipedia, but the breakdown by country is what’s important.

“About 47.8 million immigrants in 2023” https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-immigrants-are-in-the-...

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JumpCrisscross a year ago | parent | next [-]

My family immigrated. We’re native English speakers from India.

	▲	Retric a year ago \| parent [-]
		So immigration had zero impact on your family being a native English speaker. And again 47 < 47.8

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adriancr a year ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	Retric a year ago \| parent [-]
		The question of your native language is answered long before any of what you’re talking about here. A 20 year old isn’t time traveling to have different parents when they take an exam.