BEST UK IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY

voted romanian (closest to romany?), in spirit of apology to Noodle Vague for being a dickwad on the football thread last year.

great poll.

Only listed immigrant communities that a) have their own wikipedia page b) I've met enough of to consider a proper "community".

Would have listed every single West Indian community but too much effort tbh. Do let us know if you've voting for Antigua or St Kitts and Nevis though.

sadly "american" will win this poll in a walk

even though they don't actually have a "community"

Torn between Indian for the food and West Indian for the music. All listed have made many fine contributions to the cultural and social fabric our rapidly changing island, though (get-out Guardian-reading proviso).

cm'off it looey. the irish will smash this poll. possibly in a drunken rage

sadly "american" will win this poll in a walk

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American ex-pat community easily the most self-loathing, ashamed of their heritage, pretending to be Canadian people on the planet though, so US interlopers onto this thread may want to think twice before voting for those traitors.

Worst one probably a tie between UAE/Saud and Australia (mostly for Chris Roy Taylor mind)

Australian or Spanish in a clash for worst imo.

dom otm about american self-hate

I have never met a Ghanaian I haven't liked. For some strange reason these have mostly been in High Street pubs on a Saturday afternoon while they shout enthusiastically at Man Utd games.

i have a lot of love for the rotating cast of Portuguese and Brazilians who linger in Finsbury Park waiting for a game of footie. always nice blokes. if it's just one guy he's a stereotypical showboating genius; if it's two guys, one of them is brilliant and the other one is terrible.

haha they tend to pop up in any major city, sometimes if there are two they are both amazing, generally the terrible spacker (who everyone seems to love dearly, probably because his goalkeeping is conducive to goals) crops up in groups of 4 or more wandering football troubadours.

this exact thing happens in my hick town, but with nigerian guys instead. usually the same guys- a wizard in his late thirties or so and his teenage son, who's sadly cack but tries hard.

west indies ftw

tbh they tend to be anything from nigerians to italians to germans to dutch to latvians to west indians, all that matters is that they look really seedy, they're wearing a tattered footy shirt and they're exceptionally skillful

but can they play together in a 4-4-2?

nah, but given a bit of guidance they could play a...

How come there's no Anglo-Saxon, Danish, or Norman on this list?

they do have a strong cultural identity, those Normans. i wonder sometimes if they shouldn't do more to integrate themselves with the broader population.

no Mexicans, no credibility

well if you will hog them

Can you vote for a community that you're connected to by family? Or is that cheating/skewing the results?

i'm voting for my Baltic peoples, you do whatever your conscience tells you.

Feel free.

Matt's right about Ghanaians, but I think my vote's gonna go for the Kosovans.

Kosovars, surely

OK, Polish it is then. Matko jebca!

i like people from other countries

To be fair, that's a lot of people...

a great bunch of lads

Slightly naive in their defending though.

dom using the pre-emptive "whoops my mouse slipped" excuse for voting italy

Japanese, because I married one.

i married an American, but i didn't hover over that option in the poll for long.

where is Dom meeting all of these people? at a stretch i've met people from half the groups in the list. is this a take-away food thing?

Via the magic of the internet.

Voted Indian for food and "some of my best friends are..." reasons but Pakistani was a close second for the very same reason.

Where are Serbians vote?

(and don't say Serbia)

where is Dom meeting all of these people? at a stretch i've met people from half the groups in the list. is this a take-away food thing?

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I've lived in the Midlands, Lancashire, and London, so, y'know. Wide and varied.

Of the ones I've encountered, all good, even South Africans!

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i have a shiny 50p coin says you haven't met people of every group on that list. you're a fraud and a disgrace, and i can't sit by wordlessly anymore.

i have also lived in all of those places. coincidence? if you move to Boston i'm having you arrested.

Australian or Spanish in a clash for worst imo.

There's no fucking contest, surely? Look, my cousin is doing "the year in London" and she's driving me fucking insane with all her idiotic Facebook updates about life with as an Australian being drunkenly irritating in London.

And no, I'm not giving you her number.

even South Africans!

Every South African I've known in this country has been thoroughly charming and politically sound.

Absolutely

that's not my experience. i worked for several years with three S. Africans, one of whom is probably the nicest guy i have ever met and the other two of whom were pretty despicable human beings. i have a long story involving a fake charity raffle but i will spare you from that here.

i'm not condemning the rest of the South African people on that basis, i'm just saying that they're down 1-3 in my score book (automatic -1 for their sportsmen).

Most of the racists really go to Perth or Sydney.

Surely 'nicest guy I've ever met' is worth more than +1.

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my score card, my rules.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

This was always gonna happen.

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I actually felt a bit guilty after voting, because I voted Polish, even though by blood I'm more Irish. But this result suits me very well.

on behalf of all Irish people everywhere I would to wish you all a hearty and heartfelt thank you, from the bottom of our emerald hearts....god bless.

i forgot to vote in the end :-/

Who would you have voted for?

my neighbour Seamus O'Krzynówek will be thrilled.

Well it was either cop-out home banker Cypriot or ah something else. Hmm.