The Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus), growing up to 1.5 meters (5 feet). https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7e0b0269a1dd6ead3038eba06eb93c900f9d08acca92c6fd1cc4c4a125a5c610.file
I'd bet the rise in connectivity (everyone has a smartphone with video phone capabilities and so does their cousins in the old country) mean that integration is more or less impossible at this point, or that it at least requires a dedicated effort by the immigrant itself.
The threshold for diversity in cities is surprisingly low. At just a few percent you start getting ethnic sorting.
UCL News
Hidden patterns of isolation and segregation found in all American cities
A comprehensive analysis of 383 U.S. cities reveals a striking pattern: most have rings of isolation in suburban areas and segregated pockets of ne...
"Problem solving skills", or intelligence.
How did this slip past the censors? "There are significant differences within the population, especially between people with different levels of education, social backgrounds and countries of birth. Adults with low educational attainment have only limited adaptive problem-solving skills. Employed people have higher skills than those who are not employed." https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/adults-in-germany-are-good-at-solving-problems https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6b1d6b3af2dfd2522c6cf5d56347c7c0c75bae73e18bb8f01751a4b9b1a075f1.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/240f3c28c548b46494528e3b612d538b70d0458f8f3da0ee4e5300753791efef.file
Colonial Taiwan. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e2764c152de2514e987df44499dab9939e805f0b016a3ad39d5740217616d78f.file
Finally some nice words for neolithic farmers: β€œWhere there was once mainly forest, there were now smaller patches of forest...A farmed Europe had a wider range of habitats for plants to live in than an unfarmed Europe.”
University of York
Farmers boosted Europe
Although humans are to blame for nature’s recent decline, a new study shows that for millennia, European farming practices drove biodiversity...
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β€œThe best service a modern jounalist can do to society is to record as plainly as ever he can exactly what impression was produced on his mind by anything he has actually seen and heard on the outskirts of any modern problem or campaign.” β€” G.K. Chesterton, 1911 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6aca4f09841a4251647ec025abf8e398622fe6a854c382503d45796a2e338d11.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/52b66c2e9e63b5c5501c83e512b868021b0d79f883b6144ef6f9b8d75d2e9357.file