Question to Brits: when you think of 'immigrants', which image comes to mind?

[Grace O'Malley]

agreed
add to that Polish women are often pretty, they are an example of "good" immigrants

Yes Polish women are pretty as well. I don't know all the lowdown on what animosity there was to Poles in the UK. I've read some of the rags sometimes but the people in the comments sections in those papers hate everyone.

[Adrianv2]

That's what I meant - the Irish have always been welcomed in the US (in part because of their whiteness, but not just that) in a way that really wasn't true for a long time in Britain.

“The Most Recently Discovered Wild Beast” (1881) is one of a series of nineteenth-century images portraying the Irish as violent and subhuman. In the U.S. survey I use images of this sort when examining the history of anti-immigrant prejudice and its relationship to American racism.

Native-born Americans criticized Irish immigrants for their poverty and manners, their supposed laziness and lack of discipline, their public drinking style, their catholic religion, and their capacity for criminality and collective violence. in both words and pictures, critics of the Irish measured character by perceived physical appearance.

More than 150 years ago, it was the Irish who were refugees forced into exile by a humanitarian and political disaster. Explore this era of scorn the Irish initially encountered and find out how they became part of the American mainstream.
And in the opinion of many Americans, those British landlords were not sending their best people. These people were not like the industrious, Protestant Scotch-Irish immigrants who came to America in large numbers during the colonial era, fought in the Continental Army and tamed the frontier. These people were not only poor, unskilled refugees huddled in rickety tenements. Even worse, they were Catholic.
https://www.history.com/news/when-am...refugee-crisis

[Ylla]

1. Plenty of British Asians are more integrated than 1st gen EE.

That's because they've been here longer

[Ayetooey]

That's because they've been here longer

True, but TA will act as if anyone who is black/brown can never integrate, but every White person can; even if said White person speaks no English and runs a Polski Sklep selling illegal cigarettes'.

[Graham]

Britain has integrated well into Asian culture, with the Pakora, Naan and the Kebabs.

[Ayetooey]

Britain has integrated well into Asian culture, with the Pakora, Naan and the Kebabs.

Love "Indian" (British-Bengali in reality) food.