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Check In - Belgium
Published 06/04/2016 @ 18:12:05, By
antp
In the 50s that's the Italians who were the "bad" immigrants here
Check In - Belgium
Published 06/04/2016 @ 23:09:45, By
chicomarx
That's because people hadn't experienced very much of other cultures.
At the Brussels Expo of '58 you had a Congolese village where the Belgians fed the African kids bananas.
http://www.radio1.be/hautekiet/foto-congolees-dorp-expo-58-gaat-de-wereld-rond
Also in the US. Immigrant policy favoured Northern Europeans and tried to limit the number of Southern Europeans. If it had been more specific they would have said England only.