Alyxra

Alyxra t1_it80xw7 wrote

By this logic all humans in America are immigrants including “natives” because they crossed over a land bridge from Asia thousands of years ago.

Humans did not evolve in the New World.

There is a difference between colonists and immigrants which is why they are not the same word.

In simple terms, colonists are people who move to an area that is not yet established and build a state. Immigrants are people who move to an already established area.

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Alyxra t1_it7z1j6 wrote

True, but I was not excluding based on race. Including white immigrants, the majority of the US population were descendants of the colonists until fairly recently.

Large demographic changes like that take a while for complex government systems to adapt to.

Especially considering most of the change is localized to particular areas.

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