@tinyfaery why would you assume that my statement was xenophobia-inspired? . . . In actuallity I’m thinking along the lines of the California Gold Rush, the original Forty Niners, were Americans and Europeans living in Northern California, along with Native Americans and some Californios… Not too long thereafter, tens of thousands each of Mexicans, Chinese, Britons, Australians, French, and Latin Americans, together with many smaller groups of miners, such as Filipinos, Basques and Turks arrived to stake their claims.