Why are there so many polish people in cardiff?
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we send them from London
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All of Barcelona ... that's a lot of folks
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You are right about if all the immigrants were kicked out, that the british people would still sit on their lazy ar*es claiming benefits.\nThats why a lot of the unskilled polish and bulgarian workers are coming over here, to fill the jobs that brits wont do.\nDont believe anyone who says "i cant get a job" there is obviously work out there if they are having to bring in immigrants to do it.\nWhen I talk about immigrants I mean anyone who has emigrated to this country. They dont bother me as long as they are willing to work.\n\nPlus, if you are working here on a visa, you automatically pay 25% tax pon your earnings so I dont think we can say thatr immigrants are ripping the country off and giving nothing back!
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I would say it happened in the USA and not in Poland.\nWhen the Steel Mills, Mines, Slaughter Houses, etc. needed undeucated workers to replace those who were agitating for higher wages and better working conditions they sent agents to Central Europe to recruit with fab promises about a better life.\nOnce here they were discriminated against because of their language, family values, religion, and clannishness.\nEnduring slurs, jokes, and the like to keep them downtrodden became the norm and the jokes never stopped.
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Because the French, Polish, Germans, etc haven't cried loud enough.  Neither have they come to this country and try to force their culture and way of life down our throats.
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Of course this is a difficult question to get an exact answer....(because people are always moving in and out, and don't alway record their nationality correctly etc...)\n\nBut according to the UK census of 2001 43000 people live in the UK who were born in the ex USSR.\n\nI hope that helps :-)
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Me too!! \n\nOh no wait, I am polish. nevermind.
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Maybe it was because they'd eaten some cheddar cheese?\n\nBut you're right - most people in England are descended from the original inhabitants.  Immigration has always been a relatively small percentage and has been absorbed into the original population by and large.  So most people here are descended from both the original inhabitants AND immigrants
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Casimir Pulaski??? That's a name you don't hear too much about except in Illinois...  He was a big time Polish General served in the American Revolution... he's big in Illinois because of the large number of Polish immigrants in the Chicago area... as far as his impact on history... I'd say negligible at best... Was he married??? No clue...\n\ncheck out a pretty decent bio from the Chicago Public Library in my sources
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1) Yes, the air conditioning isn't working very well.\n2) Yep, even some Poles and Hungarians.\n3)  Because other people ask stupid things or things stupidly.  Besides, the really "nasty" things usually get edited out by yahoo.
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wow...a racist minority. how interesting.
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it means that nearly 100% of its population is made up of japanese people.   People of other races are almost nonexistent within their population.
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some prejudice, yes but you will find a great deal more whom are related.  There is a huge pride in our Irish heritage.  We've suffered throughout time but coming from such a small island, isn't it curious? keep optimistic
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Chicago has the highest population of Polish people outside of Warsaw. Casmir Pulaski was some kind of hero in the Revolutionary War, but I don't remember exactly why.  All of Illinois celebrates it as a holiday.
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it is slowly starting to happen.\n\nboarder laws and visa laws are relaxing\n\nEU is contently allowing more member countries soon most of Eastern Europe will have free movement, rights to work anywhere in Europe, access to health care.\n\nAlthough Wales, England and Scotland are different countries there are no boarders stopping the movement of people between them.\n\nI guess it is taking so long because counties whom consider them selves better (normally economically) then others are not always willing to share as it may decrease their average standard of living or economic strengths
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Well I'm doing my bit! (36 weeks pregnant with my first baby!)\n\nIt scares me to hear that we "need" immigrants because of an ageing population.  I've already seen East European immigrants monopolising the unskilled job market round here and leaving many skilled people unemployed or stuck in minimum wage jobs because immigrants do the skilled jobs for less.  I've seen immigrants being given social housing while British families are homeless.   I've heard Polish immigrants laughing and bragging in the pub about how they can make out like kings in the UK and how the Brits are "lazy" and they don't care if their presence here has a bad effect for jobs, housing etc.\n\nThe thought that the Government may use a low birth rate as an excuse to even further flood our country with the poor and needy of other nations and strain our resources even further fills me with dread.  I shudder to think what the UK will be like when my baby is an adult and looking for work.  By that time I think we might have emigrated - its probably the only chance we have of a decent life and well paid jobs.  Sad really as I love my country and resent being pushed out of it.
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My guess: every immigrant community goes through it, hence the Irish, the Polish etc. joke. They were different, they talked funny, acted funny, and so people manage fear/ lack of understanding with jokes. It's too simple to say that it's just racism and done by bad people. We in Eastern Europe, for example, have a whole lot of very painful, pointed jokes about ourselves. Bulgarians have some of the most vicious Bulgarian jokes around. Humor is a way to transmit very simplified cultural messages.