Never been to Suffolk. Never been anywhere in the UK outside of London and though I've been to London on many different occasions, add the time I've spent there all together and it probably is less than two weeks. I would have guessed Jamaica for the Netherlands definitely. You see Jamaican guys on the streets of Amsterdam all the time.
Yeah pretty sure. Though I guess it's possible some people from Suriname might dress like Jamaicans, once they start talking it's pretty easy to spot the real ones.
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 got Jamaica, as I've met loads of Jamaicans in the UK, but missed Latvia, Lithuania, and Zimbabwe, all of which surprised me. This was especially annoying having guessed almost every country around Zimbabwe as I ran out of options. Sigh.
and no I didn't mean people with dreadlocks. I mean I was approached several times by people who looked Jamaican, who spoke with a distinct Jamaican accent and dialect, and when I asked where they were from they told me they were from Jamaica. Most of them were trying to sell drugs.
Estonia only has just over 1m people; in order to meet the 100k threshold for this quiz, nearly 10% of their entire population would need to live here!
They don't have to all come over in one day, so with births and their own immigration it's possible for a country with 1m people to make the list without decimating their population.
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
is this going to be another England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland debate again? If it is, save it...he says UK which is the above four countries. The fact that they may or may not be a sovereign nations doesn't matter in this quiz.
Man, there a LOT of Poles in the UK! Also surprised at the number of Irish and Jamaicans in the UK. Obviously both have ties to the country historically (and Ireland is of course very close geographically) but it's still surprising considering that the two countries have small populations.
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.
Given the population ratio I feel like I run into more Kiwis than Aussies abroad, relatively. It should be 4:1 in favor of the Aussies but in my experience it's more like 2:1 or 3:1. Met a lot of Kiwis in South Korea. And just met two at a hostel in Sofia last week.
Excuse me, what? How is that racist? From his name, it's easy to see he's probably Polish. It's always a good feeling to see your country at the top of the list, and he's just saying he's disappointed it's not. Nothing at all about that was racist in any way. I don't even know how you came to that conclusion.
It's quite possible that Dzuliet17 (female, I am guessing...) is sad that so many young poles leave Poland. In my experience of Polish people coming to the UK, they are the most determined, hard-working people you are likely to meet.
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.
If "some" is enough to make such a sweeping statement then it can also be said that ("some") Irish and American immigrants do the same thing. If, on the other hand, we are talking about trends that apply to enough people within a group to be relevant when talking about the group as a whole, the most important example of literally what TP suggested would probably be corporal punishment of one's own children rather than, for example, terrorism. I imagine this differs significantly between immigrant groups but it doesn't seem to be something that anti-immigrant rhetoric is directed against, perhaps because the social conservatives tend to support or at least be equivocal about it themselves.
There's so many polish people because of the connections between the countries in the war. Polish people would come to the UK to help work in exchange for the UK helping Poland in the war.
Not really, it's more that 2 million people left Poland after they joined the EU in 2004. And they tended to move to the countries with the strongest economies i.e. Germany and the U.K.
I think (don't know if it is similar in all countries) The first initial generation usually are extremely hardworking, it is often the next generation that is born, that can have a tendency to get into trouble. They are inbetween 2 cultures, with a lot more freedom and opportunities than their parents.
It is hard to explain this in text in a different language, hope it comes across as intended.
In unpolished words what I often see; first gen very hard working and often very humble (depending on country of origin) moreso than people from the country they migrated to. Next gen often very spoilt, can get away with a lot. Though youth in general seem to feel a lot more entitled than a few generations ago (or even 25 years). It has nothing to do with "race" just mix of 2 cultures. Similar aged people in the country of origin life a very different life and usually get into trouble less.
Nothing of this is about how the amount of crime compares between immigrants and non immigr
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!
The ONS figures are very debatable. I thought I knew that there were far more people of French nationality in the UK. The question is who has been counted. And of course the number of illegal immigrants is very difficult to count.
I expected Turkey to be on this list. There are a lot of Turks and Turkish businesses in North London. Also some sources claim that the UK's Turkish population is above 100,000.
baffled why Hungary isn't on the list since even according to the linked source there are 116K hungarian born people in the UK and in reality there are way more
Is the UK giving permanent-residency to these people? Why invite half a million Nigerians/Zimbabweans/South Africans? Do Brits know that people with dark skin are overrepresented in homicide offenders in their country at a rate of 7x? Why import 1.6 million people from areas like Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh? Are they familiar with the culture of those countries?
"For the three-year period year ending March 2018 to the year ending March 2020, ..the principal suspect of a homicide offence, around two-thirds (67%) of suspects convicted of homicide were identified as White. This is a lower representation than in the general population (around 85%). Around one in five (21%) suspects were identified as Black, seven times higher than the general population (3%) (Appendix table 29)."
For those that missed the smiley face, I meant that as a joke.
Personally I think it's great to see so many different nationalities and cultures enriching us.
It is hard to explain this in text in a different language, hope it comes across as intended.
In unpolished words what I often see; first gen very hard working and often very humble (depending on country of origin) moreso than people from the country they migrated to. Next gen often very spoilt, can get away with a lot. Though youth in general seem to feel a lot more entitled than a few generations ago (or even 25 years). It has nothing to do with "race" just mix of 2 cultures. Similar aged people in the country of origin life a very different life and usually get into trouble less.
Nothing of this is about how the amount of crime compares between immigrants and non immigr
didn't expat thaht
"For the three-year period year ending March 2018 to the year ending March 2020, ..the principal suspect of a homicide offence, around two-thirds (67%) of suspects convicted of homicide were identified as White. This is a lower representation than in the general population (around 85%). Around one in five (21%) suspects were identified as Black, seven times higher than the general population (3%) (Appendix table 29)."
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/homicideinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2020