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There were more than 100k Polish citizens in the UK in the 1950s. By the 1990s their number decreased to close to zero. So basically, Poland lost 100k people and gained nothing. Britain got 100k Europeans who simply assimilated over 2 generations completely, losing any sense of their Polish origin and considering themselves just regular "white British". It happened so fast, so in 2004 Brits didn't even remember that they had any Poles before and they saw the new immigration wave from Poland as something new and never heard of before and even dared claiming that Poles are so different culturally from them so their assimilation is impossible (lmao). Meanwhile as we see today, children of Poles born and raised in the UK, are just white British and nothing else, no exceptions.
Meanwhile, once an Indian - always Indian. Once a Turk - always Turk, in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and every next generation, they never give up their identity.