Initially? People looking for gold, silver, fur. Missionaries spreading the word of god, people escaping persecution of various sorts.

Are those the people Europe and the US are look to immigrate?

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mr_toad 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Initially? People looking for gold, silver, fur.

For the most part it was companies looking for gold, furs etc, with the support of their governments. Companies founded the colonies and trading posts for the benefit of the stockholders and the governments. The consideration of colonists was a distant third. When the supply of easy marks dried up they turned to indentured labour and then slavery.

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arrowsmith 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Did they bring their parents with them?

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yibg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Can't pick and choose. Would you be ok with people escaping persecution or spreading their religion coming in the country if they don't bring their parents?

	▲	arrowsmith 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What point do you think you’re responding to exactly? GP mentioned “abandoning your parents” when you immigrate as if that’s absurd. In reality it’s the most normal thing imaginable. I know hundreds of people who live outside their home country and I can’t thing of a single one of them who took their parents with them. When does that ever happen?