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Western European nations are richer, so logically attract immigrants.
Main reasons for diversity and immigration were colonial ties and/or guest worker treaties. Based on this reasons are countries like UK, France, Germany or Benelux so diverse.
Add to this fact that people from poorer neighbouring country will move to richer and EU free movement of people and thanks to this factors we end up with UK, France, Germany being very diverse comparing to Eastern Europe (i asume OP meant under eastern former eastern bloc). Russia, Slovenia and Czechia are somehow more diverse than average EE nation. Russia is special case itself with so many indigenous ethnicities and all 3 countries have much higher immigration % than rest of the region. Slovenia and Czechia are also 2 richest. By immigration % i mean ongoing immigration and new immigrants who came in last 1 or 2 decades, otherwise many other countries have higher % of foreign born population. Croatia, Latvia, Estonia or Ukraine have very high % of foreign born population, but it is thanks to soviet decisions and war in case of Croatia not modern type of immigration.
Now immigration is slowly happening in this region, but i do not think it will ever be similar to UK or France, because of reasons i mentioned. There were no colonial ties, no guest worker treaties and now under EU free movement people from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia and Lithuania are moving out, to, western nations not to each other. Slovenia, Czechia have pretty limited work related emmigration comparing to other EE member states and Estonia is special case with most people working in Finland.
There is only another option left on the table and it is asylum kind of immigration. Sweden is leader in this category that most of their immigrants came from such countries. In other European nations top categories are mentioned colonial ties, guest worker treaties, EU free movement and immigration from neighbours.
I do not see eastern european countries accepting people through asylum in big numbers.
The difference between western and eastern european nations might even increase with ongoing massive immigration to certain westerm countries and very slow, immigration to certain eastern european so in 3 decades diversity difference might even increase when we will compare most ethnically, culturally diversed countries in Europe with least diversed
America isnt importing that much, 90% are mexicans crossing the border, and the southern areas in the US for long time have been in hands of mexicans.. just look at the names of the cities. Its not the same as somalians going to sweden, middle easterns going to germany or congolese going to french.
Um, no.
About 25% of U.S. immigrants are of Mexican descent. In recent years, the % has been even lower.
The biggest source of immigration to the U.S. is Asia, not Latin America.
And the Southwest U.S. has Spanish names because of the Spaniards. It has nothing to do with Mexican immigration.
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