On the question of Boston's Irish population, it's hard to consider them as a diaspora anymore considering the migratory links are so far removed; but they've instead since formed a unique American-Irish culture rather than just becoming wholly assimilated into the white American mainstream
It's like that with a lot of cultures after a few generations - both the emigrant population and that of their original homeland gradually diverge and neither really resembles the other anymore, but the descendants of the diaspora don't entirely shed their ethnic origins and instead live on as a unique cultural minority. A lot of North American Jewish and Italian communities are like this, as I'm sure many more will in the future.
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Originally Posted by Crawford
Did Vancouver get a lot of British immigration until recently?
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The British are actually the largest single immigrant group in Canada (if Hong Kong is considered separate from China), and as of 2015 still the 9th largest annual source of immigrants. It's not quite as popular a destination as Australia is, but there are still a surprising number of British expats across the country.