This has come up from reference to the District 9 film, and also as something that I remember having seen hints of.

I could not say personally, given that I am only the *child* of African immigrants, and thus can only pick up prejudices rather second-hand.

lives in a building w/Nigerians and folks really from nearly all corners of the globe. I presume nothing about them other than a lovely ...

accent to their English. When I receive 419- worthy email from twits that think I'll fall for their get rich quick schemes, THOSE folks I .

take exception to, and dont' concern myself w/what country they come from,just that I don't give them the satisfaction of wasting my time.

Well, the spam and eBay fraud thing is quite a common perception but I don't think it carries over to a real social prejudice in the UK.

What I am more talking about is a perception of Nigerians as gangsters, which I have picked up from some sources in SA...

...as well as people from other African countries. But my understanding is pretty vague and may well be utterly wrong, which is why I ask.

In Germany, I don't think this prejudice is common-I know a few Nigerian students and also faculty, and you get worse press here if you

oh huh, never got that here (Chicago) but that could be like thinking all Italians are in the mob, a narrow view assumption?

happen to be Russian or Turkish or Polish....

MadameMaracas: Similar. Like there is prejudice specifically against Jamaicans in the Caribbean but not so much outside of it.

Alyx: This is the sort of difference in prejudice that I mean - in the UK, say, there is no great prejudice against Russians or Turks

beyond historical elements anyway, and the Cold War, and so on. Poles have a slightly hard time I think as they are stereotyped...

...as opportunistic job-stealers.

...here, they are stereotyped as...car stealers, actually.

Heh, there would be little point in anyone stealing cars to take across the border here.

The "polish builder/plumber/bar worker" though is a common stereotype - very similar, actually, to that of the Irish a few decades ago.

Yeah... I see ads on gumtree sometimes that say not to bother responding if you are african or polish. There's definitely some bad

feelings from the Daily Mail crowd

embarrassed to admit she even knows a few Polish builder jokes. But hey, my grandparents were from Poland, I'm allowed to make jokes!

Oh, there are lots of them. The comical part is how they are so similar across countries but with differing nationalities involved.

For instance, my ex partner in the US was of Polish heritage and knew Polish jokes there, which were identical to Irish jokes here.

Those Irish jokes, historically, are in fact old jokes about the French.

..and in Wales, I got to hear jokes about the English that basically took every cliché in the book from other random nationalities...

... and the bartender looks up and says "What is this? Some kind of a joke?"

I think the family (the woman had her baby turning term!) attending Coleg y Drindod while I was there were Nigerian, and they were lovely.