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In reply to the discussion: Can anyone get it? Most of the World hates the USA!! [View all]Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)The living standards are much closer to par than they were fifty - or twenty - years ago, so there's less reason for large-scale population movements between them. If someone's moving to Canada or the US from Japan, France, or England, there's more likely a reason pretty specific to that immigrant instead of a large gap in living conditions.
Canadian immigration's roughly similar to US immigration these days in that regard (after correcting for difference in population sizes); we get a hundred to a few thousand a year from most countries, 8-10,000 from the US and Britain, and about three times that each from China, India and the Philippines these days. We'll get spikes in other countries from year to year depending on what's going on with them - Iraqi immigration is way up, for instance - but with the richer, developed countries there hasn't been mass anything going on for a few decades.