Considering the people you interact with regularly, how many are foreign born?

About 6 or 7; my Ex, my nieces, my SiL, one of my DiLs and all of my two DILs’ parents.

About 10–20% of them.

None – I guess I’m white bread. ‘Course, I don’t interact with that many people, 10–15 at most, and even fewer on a regular basis. Although one of my docs may be from another country.

One, my sister in law.

Interact as in friends or relatives with, 4. One is a husband of a cousin, who I wouldn’t say I interact with regularly but it comes under your definition. The other is a good friend’s husband, who I don’t interact with regularly but it comes under your definition (I’m in touch with her daily but him, only when I see her in person). The other two are former coworkers who are friends.

When I was working, that total would have been much higher.

My father is from Mexico and is 100% Hispanic but I don’t interact with him or my stepfamily at all, except on social media.

Most of my coworkers are foreign born. My boss is Tibetan but grew up in India. My lead is Albanian. One coworker is from Mexico, then another is from Dominican Republic. There’s also someone from Russia.

My husband and I are good friends with a man from Ghana. We met him at a local bar when we moved to Wisconsin. He just became a naturalized citizen.

Quite a few. The Snow Birds are coming back now and many are Canadians. There are quite a few in my community, as well as a number immigrants from Europe. I have a family member in a nursing home and many of the care givers are from the Island nations in the Caribbean. I interact with them more days than not. My best friend was not born in America.

My son-in-law J was born in Poland, as was his sister.
My son-in-law P was born in Argentina.
My daughter-in-law was born in New York. Her mother was living in Korea, and visited the U.S. to have the baby here.

During my working years, many co-workers were from foreign lands. Nicaragua, El Salvador… It wasn’t that unusual.
Growing up, many friends parents were from foreign countries. Ones mother and father were from Germany, and were Holocaust survivors, held in the concentration camps.
A friend of mine had her daughter in Iceland.
It’s not unusual.

About 50–60%

Most of them.

My brother and I are Canadian immigrants; my wife and her niece are from Peru; Carmen is from Mexico; Mimishu lives on the other side of the Pacific.

Three. I have a Canadian co-worker who has dual citizenship. One customer originally from Austria and another from Romania. The latter is a concentration camp survivor.

I work in an “open office” with six of us at one long table, three to a side.

Of the six:, one from Guam. One from the Philippines; one from Thailand, one from Russia, and one from France. I am the only one born in the US.

In my apartment complex, of eight families, two are from China. one is Syrian.

At my local AA meeting place, about 5% are foreign born.

Quite a few. My wife and daughter were born in Argentina and China respectively.

Of our group of friends, I’d say 30% were born outside of North America.

90% of my wife’s family were born in Argentina or Italy.

At the universities I work at, probably half of my immediate coworkers are foreign born. Also about 20–30% of my students are not from the US.

And @smudges mentioned doctors — 90% of mine are foreign born.

Doctors – my regular primary doctor is from Russia. He’s great, very thorough and takes his time talking to you.

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Two from Canada and one from Philippines.I know it is a US Territory.

1 in 7 people in the US are born outside of the US.

@Tropical_Willie Philippines is not a US territory.

@Tropical_Willie The Philippines have not been a US Territory since complete independence in 1946. So your total is 3, not 2.

Right you both are ! I went to school in the 1950’s with Eric who was born before 1946.

Around 15%. Mostly German.

Four at least, my wife, my sister in law and two daughters in law. They are Chinese, German and Polish.

I would guess 50%. I work in an Amazon warehouse.

I’m surprised that some Jellies have said zero or even one. I suspect where you live might play a role.

I just started teaching at Tufts this year and at least half my students are Japanese, most of whom are women. The remainder are from all over Europe with maybe 10% being born in the US. As a big, goofy white guy, I stick out like a sore thumb.

@cookieman Tufts? I’m impressed. I knew you when!

I guess I was just thinking of my immediate family and friends. I work in a hospital and interact daily with many foreign doctors, nurses and other personnel.

Hard for me to count how many, it’s a lot. My number is large partly because I go to a lot of group activities like zumba, dance, discussion groups. People from all over the world, Norway, Holland, Germany, Macedonia (actually he recently passed away) Scotland, Wales, Vietnam, Japan, China, Spain, Colombia, Cuba, I’m sure there are others.

In my smaller circle, my husband and his siblings and parents were all born in Mexico. A friend who I see a lot was born in Germany. Also, a friend of mine who I’ve kept in touch with for 20 years just moved to where I live so suddenly I’m with her a lot again, she was born in Panama.

@chyna: Oh sure — lots of non US born folks in healthcare.

@janbb: I was very surprised they contacted me.

@cookieman Yes, I’d guess where I live has an effect…smack in the middle of the US in Nebraska.

@cookieman If this had been asked six years ago my answer would have been none. What a difference 300 miles make.

@zenvelo Guam is the US, but if we count it as foreign born, I have 3 Puerto Rican friends, two of which I see about twice a month, the other one much less.

“What a difference 300 miles make.”

@jonsblond: So true. I love that though.

About 50%

@smudges: Is Nebraska fairly ‘white bread’?

Yes, I’d guess that other states in the Great Plains and further west are also, like Montana, Idaho, etc.

This is from May 2015 from the Office of Health Disparities and Health Equity, which is under the Department of Health and Human Services:

82.1% white, non-hispanic
9.2% hispanic
4.4% black, non-hispanic
1.7% asian, non-hispanic

and smaller percentages of others.

I feel very out-of-touch with the “real” world. I’ve been here 22 years now and the places I’d love to live near an ocean! are, for the most part, too expensive for my income. I love the idea of moving, I just don’t know where I’d go to be honest. I know where I don’t want to go!

I have to remember that “home” is often just an area – like where you shop, your hairdresser, auto mechanic, etc. I dunno…I’ve moved so many times like probably 25–30 and am getting older and I’m tired of starting over. I used to move more or less on a whim, by myself, even driving a u-haul. But now I’m more hesitant, tbh probably more afraid.

<sigh> Nebraska is easy, y’know? familiar. I have a number of health issues and my docs are here and belong to the same health system. It would be a major pain to establish all of that in a new place. Sorry…got kind of off the subject.