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amoorthy 3 hours ago

Immigrants to any country are a unique slice of the population because they chose to migrate for a better life. Hence immigrants in most countries tend to do well economically (sometimes after a generation). Uncertain that cultural differences are the reason for different economic outcomes you observe.

seszett 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Swedish speakers in Finland are not immigrants anymore than Dutch speakers in Belgium are, though (the Dutch speaking area also generally does better than the French speaking areas, for a variety of reasons).

em-bee an hour ago | parent [-]

it is interesting to note that since the industrial revolution it was the french speaking part of belgium that flourished due to its steel industry, and the dutch speaking part was the poor one. only when the steel industry stopped being competitive the economy switched away from industry to service where the french part stagnated and the dutch part started to flourish,

so clearly who does better has nothing to do with the language but with the economy and who has the better resources and is more adaptable to serve the current needs.

nradov 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which immigrants? A significant fraction of native Finnish citizens speak Swedish as their primary language. It used to be the same country.

NooneAtAll3 2 hours ago | parent [-]

why did you decide to mention Finland?

snypher 2 hours ago | parent [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151476

inemesitaffia 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They are usually richer too.