• ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 days ago

      You’re right, and New Zealand is our nicer, saner neighbour (Canada of the southern hemisphere)

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      You know, as an American, I’ve always felt like Australia was like even bigger Texas. Obviously, this isn’t based on any firsthand experience, just my perception based on media, stereotypes, and memes. Like I said, I’m American.

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        Most of Texas is a conservative racist hellhole.

        AFAIK Australians are orders of magnitudes better.

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            Have you seen the Governembt NZ elected and what they’re doing to the Treaty ?

            While as an Aussie who mostly agrees Australia is a conservative ass backwards shit hole, it would appear NZ is now aspirationaly Australia.

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            “I love a sunburnt country, I love it a lot… it’s just a pity about all the redneck fucks!” 🎵🎹🎵

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            Having conservatism without the racism is like a pipe dream in the US

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    I can understand that, as an American, Australia is near the top of the list of countries I’d consider moving to.

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    It makes some sense. Australia is not that unlike the US: there’s a lot of geographical spread, people more or less speak the same language, much of it is car-centric so you won’t have to get used to walking/cycling everywhere as you might in Europe, plus there’s a more or less functioning state healthcare system and much fewer guns in the hands of the general public. On the downside, the wildlife wants to kill you, and the locals will call you a “bloody seppo bastard” (rhyming slang for American, from “septic tank”/“yank”), though sometimes affectionately.

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    Guyana surprises me a little bit. The spectre of war is probably pretty unpleasant, but on the flipside that’s one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The economic situation should be, at a minimum, stable for the average person.

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    So, plus 10% would mean what? There is a 10% net-migration of the countries population towards the US… per what? Month? Decade? Minute? I wished more graphs where self-explanatory . This one isnt.

    If someone has the answer to what this is actually supposed to mean, would be cool if it got posted.

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      It is literally written, right there, in the subheading:

      Foreign Diaspora in the United States Less US Diaspora in Foreign Country, as a Share of Foreign Country Population

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          Read it again. There’s not a “per when” because it’s measuring the Diasporas, which would just be “per all time, that are still alive”

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            Diaspora just means dispersed people. It doesn’t convey any time frame in and of itself

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              Yes, exactly, hence “per all time, that are still alive” because it’s measuring the current number of American-born residents of each country, compared to the residents from said country in America.

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                As of what year?

                Edit: id also like to point out there are diaspora maps for time frames, so just posting a map with that word is as best trying to misleading or make a statement. Otherwise, that information would be freely available. That’s how data works.

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                  That’s an entirely different thing than “per unit of time”. It’s a valid question, turns out there isn’t an answer, but some very basic searching linked me to the original map as released: http://cf.datawrapper.de/dduui/2/

                  To your edit, sure, there are diaspora maps for timeframes. Those are called immigration/emigration maps, because the acts of which grow or shrink a diaspora.

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                He’s asking a valid question. There are no time references anywhere on the chart. Surely the numbers change over time, so knowing when the map was created is perfectly relevant.