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View Poll Results: Which Anglophone country do you consider "most diverse"?
Australia 5 8.93%
Canada 8 14.29%
Ireland 0 0%
New Zealand 0 0%
United Kingdom 4 7.14%
United States of America 39 69.64%
Voters: 56. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-01-2017, 06:27 PM
 
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I assume there's more first and second-generation Europeans in Australia and Canada, which the other countries seem to lack.

The European-descended population in New Zealand seems comparable to the United Kingdom.

Despite being ethnically diverse, the European-descended population in the United States has converged into one group (i.e. White Americans). The European cultures and languages have been lost throughout the generations.
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Old 01-01-2017, 06:30 PM
 
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Thanks for the tip.

Does Australia collect racial data? The Census Bureau in the U.S. and StatCan does as well. Couldn't find anything for Australia, however.
No it does not, for example African Americans would be classified as American in the Australian census.
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Old 01-01-2017, 06:36 PM
 
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The most (and least) culturally diverse countries in the world | Pew Research Center

https://web.stanford.edu/group/fearo...by-Country.pdf

Ethnic fractionalization and cultural diversity scores, by region and ethnic fractionalization. Rank of Cultural Ethnic Frac. Cultural Frac. Frac. Within Region Western Europe and Japan
1 Canada 0.596 0.499 1
2 Switzerland 0.575 0.418 3
3 Belgium 0.567 0.462 2
4 Spain 0.502 0.263 6
5 USA 0.491 0.271 5
6 New Zealand 0.363 0.363 4
7 UK 0.324 0.184 9
8 France 0.272 0.251 7
9 Sweden 0.189 0.189 8
10 Ireland 0.171 0.157 10
11 Australia 0.149 0.147 11
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...iversity_level

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_analysis.png
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Old 01-01-2017, 06:49 PM
 
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Opinions are like a*******, everybody's got one.

Yep. Not sure being top of that list is necessarily a good thing, though... At least it makes Australia look like a utopian, highly successful melting pot society.
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Old 01-01-2017, 08:19 PM
 
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Which Anglophone country do you consider "most diverse"? For fear of biasing, I'll leave the term "diversity" as a blank slate, with the only caveat that I'm talking about the people - not biomes or weather or anything like that. When you picture each country, which do you consider most diverse?

Possible forms of diversity (though please don't limit yourself to these if there are other forms missing)

Racial Diversity--US
Ethnic Diversity--US or Canada
Tribal Diversity--US
Ancestral Diversity--US
Lingustic Diversity--US
Political/Ideological Diversity--US
Religious Diversity--US
Socioeconomic Diversity--US
Culinary Diversity--US
Cultural Diversity--US
Artistic Diversity--US or UK
Indigenous Diversity--US
Regional Diversity--US

Other than ethnic and artistic diversity, is any of it debatable?
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Old 01-01-2017, 08:39 PM
 
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Other than ethnic and artistic diversity, is any of it debatable?
Yes. For example, for linguistic diversity more Australians than Americans speak a language other than English at home, and a far higher proportion were born into, and so have direct attachment to, a foreign culture.
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:04 PM
 
Location: Brisbane
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Yes. For example, for linguistic diversity more Australians than Americans speak a language other than English at home, and a far higher proportion were born into, and so have direct attachment to, a foreign culture.
The indigenous one is also certainly debatable. Most foreigners seem totally unaware that Australian Aboriginals are divided into over two hundred different cultural groups, speaking just a many languages. Unfortunately Australia is also a major source of extinct of nearly extinct languages.
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:33 PM
 
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Yes. For example, for linguistic diversity more Australians than Americans speak a language other than English at home, and a far higher proportion were born into, and so have direct attachment to, a foreign culture.
The numbers are almost exactly the same for both nations. I did not realize how large the foreign born population of Australia was though. Thank you for inspiring me to look.
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:38 PM
 
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The US. It has diversity within diversity. For example in the South you can find African Americans throughout the region, Cubans in Florida, Cajuns in Louisiana, Scotch-Irish throughout the region though mostly in Appalachia. In the Northeast you got Jews, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Portuguese, Irish and other groups. There's just so much.
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:44 PM
 
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Nigeria, hands down. After that, probably South Africa.
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