The most successful immigrant nation in the world is Australia

The most successful immigrant nation in the world is Australia https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/bernard-salt-demographer/australia-is-worlds-most-successful-immigrant-nation/newsstory/1b07d0d672e5eb6ba5e8b6630e5e55af

The most successful immigrant nation in the world is Australia Australia may be the most successful immigration country in the entire world. All in all, we have 195 sovereign countries, 90 of which have a critical mass of at least 10 million or more residents. The proportion of each country’s resident population born from overseas is being kept track by the United Nations.

In the case of Australia, that proportion is at 28 per cent, which means that nearly 7 million out of 24 million Australians were born abroad. Add in the Australians who were born here but who had at least 1 parent born overseas and that proportion goes up to 40 per cent.

This data shows a basic fact regarding the Australian nation and its people. There is no other nation equivalent (this means a nation with the same critical mass of population) which has been as liberal and unselfish when it comes to absorbing migrants.

The only nation that has a higher proportion is Saudi Arabia, which has 10 million residents out of 32 million, or roughly 32 per cent, who were born from overseas. Saudi Arabia’s foreign-born residents, however, are guest workers who are not provided with the same sovereign rights as its migrants.

The migrant proportion of Australia stands clear of its peer nations. The lowest in comparison is Britain, at 13 per cent; in the United States, it is 14 per cent; in Germany, 15 per cent; in Kazakhstan, 20 per cent; and in Canada, it is 22 per cent.

Australia’s story of immigration is not the success of this generation as it has been built layer by layer, for more than 200 years, often spurred by calamities overseas such as the Irish Potato Famine and the need to move away from Europe after the war. There have also been different persuasion of a number of economic booms, one of them being the gold rush.

Migrants usually enter Australia through its capital cities in Sydney and Melbourne, and form clusters within territories formed by familial and/or tribal ties. It is also practical to cluster in New World cities such as Melbourne, and USA’s New York because it supports the churches, schools, shops, and the language of a certain ethnicity.

Carlton in Melbourne was commandeered by the Italians in the 1960s as the Greeks drifted to Marrickville, Sydney. A century prior to that, the poor Irish congregated either in North Melbourne or the mean streets of Collingwood, in Melbourne. Cabramatta, Sydney is now considered to be ‘owned’ by the Vietnamese, and Lakemba, Sydney, is where the Arabic-speaking community is usually clustered.

The Australian experience by the 2^nd generation is the bleeding and blending of the migrant community into the greater urban masses. The Italians in Carlton were known to be building lavish homes in places such as Keilor and Fawkner by the 80’s and their children born in Australia were part of the inner city’s regeneration. The Italians and the Greeks had been absorbed into the Australian culture, but at the same time changing it in a profound way, until it eventually morphed into a Mediterranean-Anglo integration.

People started drinking coffee, from their original taste of tea, and started kissing each other on the cheek as a sign of greeting in a very cosmopolitan, continental way. You can expect that from the most successful nation in the world, who also happens to be the most accommodating. It isn’t anything about the ‘us’ trying to convert ‘them’ to our culture, as it is all about the fusion of cultures side by side, growing together as time went on, improving and blending in a very Australian way. We take morsels of these cultures and make something that fits our values.

20,000 people live in Horsham, Wimmera, located in western Australia. Some consider ita whitebread community, and yet 10 per cent of the population in Horsham was born overseas. In Pittsburgh in the United States, which has a population of 2.4 million, only has 4 per cent. Horsham’s population is purely cosmopolitan by comparison.

The last census showed 42 per cent of the population in urban Sydney was born overseas. This proportion in the great melting pot, New York, is at 29 per cent. But that’s not all. Paris is at 22 per cent. In Berlin, it’s at 13 per cent. Tokyo and Shanghai is at 2 per cent and 1 per cent, respectively. This is the reason why Australia obviously stands apart from the rest.

This however, does not mean there are no tensions in Australia brought about by tensions of ethnicity. This doesn’t mean either, that there will not be any tensions in the future, or that there won’t be any loathsome acts of racism.

What this means is that our country should feel pride in the fact that we are able to achieve something no other country has attempted or achieved before, which is the conveyance of a continued economic prosperity combined with a liberal and open-handed immigration program for generations.