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A few confounding factors. Cross-checking and citation left and an exercise to the reader:

Immigrants that get through the (metaphorical and literal) gauntlets to get into the US skew longevity via a Darwinian reading.

Staying to any traditional diet, working with what is in season, has health impacts.

Immigrants form communities out of necessity. Strong communities lead to longer lifespans and has a decrease on childhood deaths.

None of these confounding factors corrects for the race-as-class indicator. They simply have a mathematical effect of smearing the statistics.

There is a difference between wealth and class. Class implies wealth, not the other way around. Hence why many die in hospital, despite having wealth, due to their race implying class. This shorthand leads to many outcomes, including calibration of equipment problems that are masked by the race-implies-class effects.




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