Yes, from a population standpoint.
In America, Poles are a minority of the population but
we do not class them as such.
We class people more on race and other factors rather then numbers by nationality.
Do you think any European would get a minority based scholarship? I doubt it.
This was in Ireland, though:
Living poles apart in a parallel existence doesn’t benefit anyone
Young Poles are deserting their country only to create a Polish bubble abroad, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards
EXCERPT:
Migration on a sensible scale is one thing: this mass migration is in the interests only of employers, who would rather import cheap labour than make an effort to train the young people at home who have been let down by their schools and their society.
I live in Ealing, in West London, a borough now referred to in Poland as the fourth-largest Polish city in the world. Certainly, my village, South Ealing, is beginning to seem very foreign to the English, as well as to the Irish, Asian, West Indian and the other immigrants who have rubbed along together since I first moved here in 1979.
There was always a strong Polish presence, but the old Poles who had fled here from communism had learned English and integrated, while keeping a strong sense of their history and culture.
We don’t know the young Poles who have been arriving over the past few years in their tens of thousands unless we meet them in their places of work, although they walk past us in the street speaking Polish to each other or on their mobile phones. Because of technology, they live in a parallel world.
In Ealing, your average young Polish immigrant lives with other young Poles, watches Polish television and listens to Polish Radio, reads Polish news on the internet, communicates by phone with family and friends at home for little or nothing, travels back cheaply by coach or air for holidays or family celebrations, goes to mass at the local Polish church, shops in one of the innumerable Polskie delikatesys where newspapers and free-sheets provide local Polish news, Polish books can be bought and small ads in Polish scrutinised, socialises in Polish cafes and bars and clubs and, usually, mates with another Pole.
Geographically, they may be over here, but their hearts and minds are still over there.