According to our friends at the United Nations, today, May 21, 2019 is World Culture Day. Cultural diversity is a valuable and necessary asset to our organizations. In an effort to raise up the next generation of leaders to be culturally sensitive, schools around the world are participating in World Culture Day to share the various cultures and bridge the gap in communication. The goal of this global outreach is to engender understanding and diminish ethnocentric thinking.
Immigration and World Poverty
Roy Beck delivers a TED Talk about immigration and world poverty. His hypothesis is that those who have the means to immigrate to the United States should stay in their home country to improve conditions for those living in their home country. You can find his video below…
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- From 2000 to 2009, the United States granted on average 1,003,741 green cards per year, according to DHS. Statistics. From 2000 to 2013, the U.S. granted an average of 1,008,404 green cards per year.
- Using the World Bank’s measure of poverty, in 2010 the Population Reference Bureau estimated the percentage of each country’s population who lived on less than $2 a day.
- The United States tends to bring in immigrants from the better off poor of the world instead of those living in extreme poverty, as measured by per capita GDP data from the World Bank. Academic works on international migration trends demonstrate that the “poorest of the poor” cannot afford to migrate and poorer countries tend to lose their better educated and more prosperous citizens to the developed world.
- According to DHS, the largest share of people living in the United States in 2009 who had been born in another country was from Mexico, 29.3 percent of the total foreign-born population. The second largest group was from China, 5.5%
- In 2009, the number of people living in countries with average incomes below Mexico’s was approximately 5.6 billion, according to the World Bank measure of per capita GDP.
- According to the Population Reference Bureau, 80.8 million births in 2009 were in “less developed regions.”