UK Immigration by Country

kalbahamut, they are Surinamers and Antilians, there are no Jamaicans in the netherlands.

But my friend is Jamaican and he lives here in the Netherlands? I guess he's got to leave

Well, it seems to me he shouldn't have to leave, what with his not existing and all... ^_^

I was just in Jamaica. They dressed more or less like me. I've also been to other English-speaking Caribbean countries. I can't distinguish the various forms of patois when I hear them. But then I'm not Henry Higgins.

The Trini accent is pretty distinct, although I'd bet hardly anyone without a lot of time spent with West Indians would have a hard time hearing the difference. Bajan accent? Good luck hearing the difference between them and a Vincentian, Jamaican, etc. Accent, of course, being completely different than dialect.

I guess he meant he saw people with dreadlocks..

Baltics tend to be all over norther Europe, and there are SO many jamaicans, I know this purely because of the amount of half-jamaican kids I grew up with.

Baltic countries = surprise!

Except for Estonia; Estonians are apparently either perfectly happy at home, or perhaps fancy somewhere a bit warmer :-]

As a Brit, Jamaica was my first guess. It was a British colony, part of the Empire, and remains part of the Commonwealth. Post WW2 the British government invited many Jamaicans and others from the Caribbean to the UK because of the labour shortage. There are many areas of London with large Jamaican populations, like Brixton for instance. It's all been in the news recently because of the government's mishandling of immigration documents, leading to British Afro-Caribbeans who have been here for generations suddenly finding themselves declared non-British citizens and facing deportation. See Windrush Scandal

I was quite surprised too but thinking about it it's probably all pakistani's and indians running them :P

It seems Australians are everywhere, too. I've never seen a culture with so much wanderlust! And it's kinda weird, because the Kiwis are relative homebodies.

^^ Agreed

UK does a huge working migrant program with the philippines, they're not often at the forefront of the immigration debate in the UK because they tend to assimilate quite well and work therefore pay taxes, so you don't hear much about them.

Seems somewhat racist. Why do you think that?

Irish and American immigrants don't use violence to force their religions or customs on UK citizens. In fact, most Irish and Americans share the same values as UK citizens, so assimilation isn't much of a problem.

The Netherlands aswell, you hear polish everywhere

"enriching"

"Mommy, why are SWAT members everywhere at the christmas festival?" Well son, because diversity is our greatest strength.

TP - nothing to do with American gun culture and disillusionment caused by wealth and social rights disparity then?

..and of course myriad other possible social issues.

Just sayin’ - racial / cultural stereotyping and scapegoating is ignorant, lazy and, at best, ethically extremely dubious (more often bigoted and born from a superiority - or perversly an inferiority - complex but will give you the benefit of the doubt)

This isn’t an attack on America - I know all other countries have their problems too, some similar to the US, some different, some a mixture

Maybe ignore that bit about superiority / inferiority complexes - I don't have data to back that up with

Coming over here, stealing our quizzes ;-)

Not if diversity includes the mass 'abuse' of small children, crime, unfair labor competition, welfare abuse, and terrorism. No.

Then you’re in luck because diversity =/= those things

SG - do you not understand how this quiz works?

Same here. I'll join you in the corner to cry.

Its great travelling through our cities and seeing all the different supermarkets and what have you. I had a teacher in school that used to called Bradford 'Bradistan'... Supermarket on one of the main streets into my city called 'Islam Foods', I wonder what they sell there lol!

There are a lot more Italian citizens in the UK, over 200.000

Can’t belived I missed Ireland and my Grandma is Irish and she emigrated here...