I would say Poland fits that description better in 2019. Polish sent all over the EU doing jobs the locals won’t...
And today in Poland, Ukrainians do the jobs that Poles won’t do.
Yep, Italy and Ireland are transients in PI(I)GS family. They have a tendency to elect responsible government pulling them up once in a while.
As for the topic one needs to start with anthropology. It seems like obsession to seek a minority trait at every corner but the Italians are genetically white and nothing would change it. So are the ‘brown’ people. Arabs and the rest of North Africans and Indians are white too. The Iranians are the whitest people in a gene pool ever who are simply misfortunate to live too far south and tanned. The aryans are even called after them.