National Geographic USA - 09.2019

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NEW YORK

PARIS

PHILADELPHIA

BANGKOKBERLIN JAKARTAMADRIDNAGOYA

KUALA LUMPUR WASHINGTON

BOSTON SAN DIEGOSINGAPORE

CHICAGODUBLIN

SAN FRANCISCO

TOKYO

LOS ANGELESMANCHESTER

LONDON SYDNEY

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MORE INTEGRATED

MORE SEGREGATED

Most common

languages are

labeled in the ranking

S P

P O

Native language

Each square represents

a language or language

group, in this case

English. The top square

is the most integrated.

EMBARK | DATA SHEET

Groups were identified

by the languages used

in tweets; Twitter users’

neighborhoods were

identified based on

where they most

often stay overnight

(8 p.m. to 8 a.m.).

Highly integrated Moderately integrated

How integration

is measured

London, for

example...

About one-third of the analyzed cities are

linguistically diverse and have relatively

high rates of integration.

London and a handful of global cities have

linguistically diverse populations and few

self-segregated ethnic neighborhoods.

(*) FRENCH SPEAKERS IN MONTRÉAL

ALSO SPEAK ENGLISH.

CITIES WITH RESIDENTS TWEETING

IN FEWER THAN THREE LANGUAGES

ARE NOT SHOWN.

London is marked by high

integration among the

largest range of languages

identified on Twitter (24).

Nagoya, Japan, has

10 non-native language

groups; members of five

of them are well integrated

across the city.

Berlin—among the world’s

more integrated cities—

has the fewest foreign

language groups tracked

in the study.

TWEETS OF MANY TONGUES

BY MONICA SERRANO

has 20 highly integrated

languages or language

groups ( ), meaning

they’re as spread out as

London’s English speakers

are. Three communities

are moderately integrated

( ), while none are

moderately segregated

( ). The city does have

one language group—here,

they’re Arabic speakers—

who tend to live in specific,

distinct neighborhoods

and are thus considered

highly segregated

( ).

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