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Originally Posted by pico44
I think an interesting stat would be: In in 1890, what percentage of residents were either foreign born, or up to 2nd generation immigrant. Wouldn't that number be like 85%? Can any other large city in history claim that?
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Sure, but in 1890, most of the foreign born were still from Northern Europe (Britain, Ireland, Germany), with Southern and Eastern European immigration just starting to really ramp up. Hardly any Indians, Chinese, South Americans, etc.
Also, from what I've read, Ancient Rome and Ancient Alexandria at their peaks might just have been in the same ballpark, when it came to foreign born or 2nd generation. There really was a ton of movement (a lot of it slaves, who after a few generations managed to be set free, replaced by more slaves) around the Mediterranean to Rome. And Alexandria was probably majority ethnic Greek and Jewish, not Egyptian. In fact Egypt circa 200 BC might have been a bit like Apartheid South Africa, with a large, dominant Greek minority with institutional privileges over the local Egyptians. And with Jews thrown in at some intermediate status.
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