klsallee wrote:fluffy2560 wrote:It did occur to me to say that we (in the UK) don't even call EU citizens "immigrants". We just say they are French, Polish, Hungarian or whatever. It's just accepted (by anyone reasonable) that they are just there.
You are kind.
History, and even some so called historically enlightened people, have not always been so kind:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 … acism.htmlhttps://www.dialoginternational.com/dia … ecab38970d
I dunno about kind. It's just the way it is. People like say - oh, he or she is Caribbean or from the Middle East but not a lot else. Sure there are some racists but that's hardly unique to anywhere including (oddly in my opinion) Africa.
I liked your links.
One of my ex-colleagues from New York was of Italian descent. His father - a professional person - changed his name from the name of the village in Italy to a typically Welsh name. He had found he couldn't work outside of his community until he did that. He said his father was always thought of as some dodgy character linked to the Mafia until he did that.
That said it wasn't uncommon here to change your German name to a Hungarian one when Hungarian nationalism was on the up. After the WW2 economic miracle in Germany, being German named might even have been a help.
My own family name has been around for hundreds of years so I doubt I'll be changing it anytime soon!