Thank you!
well said dice man.
What I meant to say is that it is very different for Poles in the U.S. as opposed to Polish people in the Western Europe. People coming to America (legally) become Americans and the assimilation is easy. In Europe on the other hand you can legally work for years in the UK, France, Germany... but they will never consider you to be a Brit, French, German.
The States are different.
USA is a nation of emigrants, they are open to someone born somewhere else. Europe seems to be more embedded in the philosophy of national division.
Maybe that's why study after study shows that Muslims living in America are on average more content then Muslims in Europe - maybe that's because in here they get a chance to be a true part of this nation, as opposed to Europe where they will be foreigners for ever?