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From: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Old World heritage in the New World
Message-ID: <856@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 21:40:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 28 21:40:38 1985
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In article <52200001@hpcnof.UUCP> lrb@hpcnof.UUCP writes:
>How does the list change if the criteria is changed from "(generic)-speaking"
>to "(generic)-heritage".  For instance, I have heard that there are far more
>"Norwegian-Americans" in the States than there are Norwegians in Norway.

It's also said that there are about 10 million inhabitants in the USA with
Swedish origin, while the population of Sweden is "only" 8.3 million.

The reason for this is quite natural - and there is probably some fancy
word to denote the phenomenon. Swedes in Sweden marry each other, while
Swedes in the USA marry other inhabitants of the USA, not necessarily of
Swedish origin. If you compile a list of "Number of People in the USA
with Specific Origin" for most nationalities of the (old) world, the sum
would by far outnumber the actual amount of people in the USA (is it 200
or 300 million?)...
-- 
Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 183170
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