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gaius on Nov 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

It is not as simple as that. For example the Bangladeshi community in the UK was largely pro-Brexit. They wondered why white Europeans got favourable immigration treatment vs their own people.

vetinari on Nov 9, 2016 [–]

Because white Europeans were coming from other EU countries and UK is still an EU member. Bangladesh isn't.

For example, Ukrainians and Russians (i.e. also not EU members) have exactly the same treatment as Bangladeshi.

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