Indeed, a close friend of mine in the UK has a brother with a Polish-immigrant girlfriend.

…hen I moved abroad years ago, those two labels — nationality and race — suddenly started to matter. In the UK, where I currently live, Polish immigrants like myself are sometimes referred to as ‘vermin.’ However, because we’re usually white, we’re not considered as much of a ‘threat’ as those ‘other’ i…
Is Our Obsession With Labels and Identities Going Too Far?
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Indeed, a close friend of mine in the UK has a brother with a Polish-immigrant girlfriend. Some of the stories he tells me about the sort of contempt Polish immigrants face in the UK are pretty shocking.
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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.
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