In time the balance between native and foreign-born will surely tip, as it has already done in Fresno.

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There is no evidence that mid- to large-sized companies maintain a different wage scale for foreign-born and native-born employees.

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Similarly the depression of the 1890s provoked a host of migrant-hostile legislation in Argentina, America and elsewhere, as native-born workers demanded that foreign rivals be kept out.

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The fashion then was for collection and growing foreign species so the Spanish invaders going native was not seen as a problem.

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Thanks to Rushdie, Indian literature no longer needed to explain itself to a foreign readership, to provide glossaries for native words and explanations for the subcontinental oddities of life.

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For those with higher education the gap widens: 12.5% for foreign-born residents and just 4.4% for native Germans.

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For all the hostility to foreign influence, Italy is creeping towards an unplanned compromise with the world in which companies' international expansion benefits those who stay at home and foreign workers fill a hole created by the shrinking of the native population.

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And foreign-born and Spanish-dominant Latinos trail not only whites but also native and English-speaking Latinos.

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