Quoting: WSeaJim Just wondering is there an asian community in Poland - "There are scores of Vietnamese in Warszawa. Not guest workers; they're there to stay. I wish they didn't; I wish Poland were Poland, and Europe Europe."
The situation of those VietNamese is very complicated. They, as their numerous kin in Hungary, East Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Russia, are the vestige of world-wide communism. During the Cold War, the (North before 1975) VietNamese government sent a huge number of workers and students to the 'brotherly' socialist states to earn money and to learn skills (my father, for example, was sent to Rostov university in Russia). Due to the hard atmosphere of the American War and its aftermath (at least 2 more little wars and economic sanction until 1990), many chose not to return. And when Poland, Czech-Slovakia...joined market capitalism and eventually EU, a large amount of exiled VietNamese left Russia (not only for economic reason but also to avoid the increasing xenophobic attitude of new Russia) and entered Polish border (illigally of course). I think generally those people, much different from the traditional VietNamese exiles in Western Europe (who favour arts and intellect) or the one-million-strong-South VietNamese exiles in US (whose only concern is to topple the current VietNamese government as a revenge), are interested solely in economic survival. Their effect on Polish economy, though, is beyond my graps at the moment. But as survivalists, they are impossible to get rid of. So you guys have to live with it.
Europe should remain white...it the ancestral home of causasians...not Asians. With the booming economies in Asia and India, why do they need to migrate to Poland or Europe? Why Polish economy is booming, but more than 2 million Poles have to leave for the West? Why France has the 6th largest economy in the world, yet there are a huge French community in London, immigrating solely on economic ground? Why are there so many European scientists and artists (coming from fabulously rich countries no less) working in the US? The question is obviously not the colour of your bottom's skin, but simply the basic human desire for never-ending materialistic improvement.
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