White.

Some will come, some will stay and by the third generation you won't be able to tell them apart from the "natives".

Not even. Their kids, if brought over young enough, will fully integrate. As for ones born here? Forget it, they'll be as British as if their families went back generations.

What annoys me is that those people hanging outside of the job centre (and there are no doubt people like that in every city in Britain) on the dole, not doing anything to get jobs that are readily available are complaining about immigrants "coming over and stealing benefits".  Stealing benefits?  They're working 40+ hours a week and paying their taxes like any lawful worker in the UK.  Unlike some who are standing in front of the job centre thinking that they are above certain types of work.

Honestly, no shame in £7 an hour with that type of work.  Those people should be jumping at the thought of that employment.

Wow, I've been in this country for six years now.

Naturalised, Scottish husband and children.  Have enjoyed assimilating into the culture and trying to experience it to the max.  I now live in an area where I've yet to hear another American accent.

But it's amazing how judgemental so many Americans, who are immigrants themselves, can be about a country which doesn't really have to host them at all, if it didn't chose to. 

I mean, I've hung round outside a job centre before.  You don't have to be on benefits to go into one and look for and apply for jobs advertised in there, so it's a good resource.  And as I was a regular smoker at the time, I hung round outside for a ciggie and even spoke to people there. Some were even employees having a smoke break! 

Yet some American tourist or student could have been passing by and assumed I was a dole-scrounging waster who couldn't be a*sed to get a job.

Hmm.

The mind boggles.

I watched the documentary and thought it very good. The Polish people came over so dignified and honourable.  There is a little polish girl in my son's class. She just stands out from the rest - not only by her stunning looks but her quietness and wistful stoicism to integrating...

The other half, who unfortunately suffers from some small minded attitudes at times, was rather disgruntled by the Peterborough club that were meeting to complain about the immigrants. He seemed to feel that the Indian woman, who was as English as anyone else, really didnt have a right to be there complaining. Which led to quite a colourful discussion on both our parts 

I think a lot of them just come for a year or two to save money up to spend back home, like a lot of working holiday makers do.

That's been my experience.  We had a couple of Polish archaeologists come and work for a few months and send money back to their families.  They've gone back now, but they were certainly hard workers and a pleasure to work with.  I don't think they intended to stay. 

When I lived in New York,  I knew many people from the Caribbean who did this (lived and worked in the US and sent part of their pay to their families in the Caribbean).