Actually social mobility in the US is lower among the native born than in a whole swathe of other OECD countries, Israel, the UK, most of the Nordics IIRC. That's what you'd expect with a hirtory of rough meritocracy preceding the rest of the world and assortative mating. Ye've been "settling" longer so there'll be fewer people born into one social class who are wildly outside the norms for it. Standard provisos about statistics being a lot more useful talking about populations than individuals apply.
Comments
Actually social mobility in the US is lower among the native born than in a whole swathe of other OECD countries, Israel, the UK, most of the Nordics IIRC. That's what you'd expect with a hirtory of rough meritocracy preceding the rest of the world and assortative mating. Ye've been "settling" longer so there'll be fewer people born into one social class who are wildly outside the norms for it. Standard provisos about statistics being a lot more useful talking about populations than individuals apply.