John Mearsheimer
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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We almost completely shut them in 24.
Opened in 65.
And we've had huge numbers of immigrants flowing in.
Yeah.
These immigrants who have been flowing in since 65 are not Europeans.
They're not mainly Europeans.
They're mainly Hispanics and Asians.
If you look at those Hispanics and Asians, they're integrating into the American mainstream at a much faster and more effective clip than was the case with those immigrants who came in in the 19th century and early 20th century.
The Irish, oh my God, you know, they were treated horribly.
There's a book, a very famous book that's been written called When the Irish Became White.
Right.
Just think about the title of that book.
There was discrimination against all these groups, right?
And the worst discrimination, of course, was against Chinese Americans, right?
But we've gotten much better.
And what we should do moving forward is redouble our efforts to integrate immigrants into the American mainstream, right?
you know, Hispanics, you know, Asians of all sorts, because the fact is that America is rapidly reaching the point where it's not going to be an all-white country, right?
I have five children, and two of my children are, I was a Generation Z, Gen Z. Gen Z is the last majority white
generation, right?
Subsequent generations are not majority white.