Finanzen

Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Identifikator:: 178864896X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-180025

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Finanzen

Edition:: 2. Bearb.

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Heymann

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 226 S

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Einkommensteuergesetz. Vom 10. August 1925

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NATURALIZATION OF IMMIGRANTS FROM THE UNITED STATES 143 TABLE 81 ~PERCENTAGE OF EUROPEAN BORN NATURALIZED, BY LINGUISTIC GROUPS, 1921 Groups and countries of birth Percentage naturalized Groups and countries of birth Percentage naturalized 0.C. .C. Scandinavien— Toland... covvcwn vo maw vo swbames snwsvnn on Norway... covsvan rvvsenn vu sree rownes win Bowdon. Lovises voomei on nani ram Denmark. ... 86-4 71.7 67-4 R&-3 Latin and Greek— . ROUMANIA. .ovvecvvrirnrasracernnranaens GITEEOR. ov uve ere eunnninonnrmrensannns AVETage....covivraerinarss corens Slavie— TEAUCE, cymuran on srnmnas smvmmass swiss vit 1m Buss, inins 5 sian on sues ou wainas swe AUStIiB. oo... iii irre Czechoslovakia, .......oocevveuiinirnnnns Ukraine. ..o.ovveee iia ianiaaannes Poland. ......ooiiiiiii iii Jugo-Blavia. ...cvcveriiiiiariaiiiniane, Bullish, oo oe see eraenr sr ansracenanos 60-5 30-2 29-3 41-3 65-3 82-4 59-4 55-7 54.7 51-0 33.7 22-4 59:9 Average........ooveur-- . Germanic— GOTINADY cv vevrenreaerencnreirnanrsanns Netherlands..............covvininiinnnnn Boalgium..cv suvvme coves ees AVEINEO, vos comin Savseny Srupemsvs 69.7 65-9 48-4 12.1 56.5 AVeTrage. ...v.uiean. eevee! NATURALIZATION AMONG IMMIGRANT PEOPLES FROM THE UNITED STATES Data on the naturalization of the United States born immigrants are presented by origin in Column 1 of Table 82 (p. 145). Those of French origin show the highest proportion. This fact is not unexpected, in view of the rather marked movement of the children of French Canadian emigrants to the Eastern and Southern States back to the Canadian soil, and especially to the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick. The Icelandic stock, with a proportion of 73-4 p.c. naturalized, ranks second, and the Norwegians, Roumanians, British, Swedish and Hungarians follow closely behind in the order named. The Greeks and Italians again appear at the foot of the list. But the significance of this table is not so much in the rank of the various stocks as in a comparison between the United States born immigrants and the foreign immigrants who come directly to Canada from their ancestral home, without a generation of residence in the United States. Column 2 shows the percentage of the immigrant population natural- ized in 1921 by countries of birth, corresponding to the specified origins. In a previous chapter, the difficulties involved in comparing data of origin and country of birth data were discussed, and the reader is recommended to refer again to page 68, Chapter III, before proceeding further. Were the two columns of percentages strictly comparable, one would expect the United States born to have assimilated to a much greater extent than those coming from other foreign countries. A Swede, for instance, born and brought up in the United States, attending the schools of the republic and speaking the English language, would seem much more easily assimilated than one coming direct from Sweden, speaking a different language and trained under a different educational system. Other things being equal, one would look for the percentages in column 3 to be normally positive and of considerable magnitude. That result obviously does not obtain in about half of the cases, and the problem presents itself as to whether a generation of residence in the United States is favourable or unfavour- able to naturalization for immigrants of foreign stocks coming to Canada. Table 83 shows the differences, by linguistic groups, in the percentages naturalized of United States born immigrants of European stocks and the percentages of immigrants naturalized who have come direct from the countries corresponding to the specified origins. It is pointed cut that the percentages are negative for all the Scandinavians, which means that a smaller percentage of the Scandinavians born in the United States and emigrated to Canada have become Canadian citizens, than immigrants who have come direct from the Scandinavian countries. The same remark applies io the Dutch and Germans in the (Germanic group and to the Austrians, Poles and Russians among the Slavs. It will be seen also by referring to the previous table that negative percentages obtained in the cases of the Hungarians, Swiss and Syrians. In the Latin and Greek group, on the other hand, those

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