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To: CarrotAndStick

“Minorities break ‘class barrier’ “

What does that have to do with Poles?


6 posted on 12/31/2007 2:56:49 AM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: AlexW

It has a lot to do with non-Islamic immigrants succeeding in Britain.

Poles are a minority in Britain, and also generally non-Islamic, if you didn’t notice.


9 posted on 12/31/2007 3:12:25 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: AlexW

>>“Minorities break ‘class barrier’ “

What does that have to do with Poles?<<

The expression “class barrier” has nothing to do with the ethnic minority status of the Polish immigrants (as another poster mistakenly implied) - but it has everything to do with the fact that even Upper Middle Class Poles, once they have relocated to Great Britain, must instantaneously be viewed as belonging to the Lower Middle Class; this is because of their initially low wealth (as compared with Britons). In other words: As soon as well-to-do Poles come to Great Britain, they are no longer above-average in wealth (though they may quickly climb back into that class within a few years).


10 posted on 12/31/2007 3:19:29 AM PST by alexander_busek
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