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Some do, many take their ideas and spread them around believing it will work the next time in a new place.

Mate, I was an immigrant for over 20 years, having lived in 3 foreign countries during that time.

It is my impression that there are 2 kinds of people who emmigrate:

• People who are looking for something different - i.e. those who have wunderlust or simply want to experience something else than the culture they were born into.
• People who are looking for a better life - i.e. overwhelmingly economic emigrants, though some are also refugees.

The former are indeed open minded and tend to immerse themselves in the culture of the countries they move to mixing with all sorts of people.

The latter tend to stick around with people from their own country and often (when they're a big enough group) form communities which are little copies of the homeland abroad. They're there for the money, not for the experience of living in a different country with a different way of acting and seing things.

(IMHO refugees are a special bunch and I can't really speak in a well informed way about their mindset - I expect the ones who are presecuted in their homeland have no love for the way of thinking of those who prosecute them, but beyond that I don't really know as I haven't met any that I knew was a refugee)

Whilst the former group are pretty much a self-selected bunch of people with a certain personality type heavy on openness, the latter are only self-selected for courage (modesty on the side, it takes bravery and in some cases desperation, to uprooot yourself) and carry with them the full range of views from their homeland, which does mean many of the will be whatever version of "conservative" they grew up with.

I can tell you that at least those emmigrants from my homeland (Portugal) who left in the 60s and 70s are in average more rightwing than those who stayed behind and, judging by their vote in their presidential elections (were Bolsonaro had a much higher percentage of the vote than in Brasil), so are Brasilian immigrants in Portugal.

As an ex-right immigrant this might be interesting to read.

My first interaction with people was the republican neighbour asking about the barbecue culture in my country. Not online communities on Lemmy

I mixed up the political sides completely. Since our neighbor is a worker and right-wing then I guess left would be the CEOs?

Those first impression were the only impressions. I can't vote so I didnt go learn political system when I have school and work.

(This one is a middle-eastern thing only.)
In highschool lgbtq+ people would assume I was brainwashed and start lecturing me on evils of Shariah as soon as they learned where I am from.

That felt geniuenly bad. You can imagine how my friend group formed up over time.

My first actual positive interaction I can remember with the left was when I got curious about computers and started learning Linux.

Hope this helps. Sorry for my bad English.