What would the effects have been had Western Europe relied on cheap labor from India in the post-WWII decades in place of cheap Muslim labor?

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What would the effects have been had Western Europe relied on cheap labor from India in the post-WWII decades in place of cheap Muslim labor (as in, in place of cheap labor from the Muslim world)? To elaborate on what I mean here, take a look at this chart:

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Education level of immigrants to Europe and US
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And the same chart, excluding Mexico:

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Here, I am thinking of having the amount of uneducated Muslim immigration to Europe be much smaller while having the amount of uneducated Hindu immigration to Europe be much larger.

Anyway, what would the effects of this have been? Would uneducated Hindus have been, on average, more capable of successful assimilation in Europe in comparison to uneducated Muslims? How would uneducated Hindus have compared in terms of assimilation in Europe to the assimilation of uneducated Hispanics in the US, for instance?

Any thoughts on all of this?
 
I'd expect much better assimilation.

Uneducated Muslim immigrants want European standards of living, but bring Islam with them.

Uneducated Hindu immigrants would also want out of at least the social effects of the Hindu caste system.

Unless the educated Indians vanish they're much more able to either assimilate or lead their communities in a workable multiethnic compromise because the UK put a lot of effort into educating local administrators and building a local higher educational system in their image. This didn't work out so well for the UK because UK wasn't anyne's tame colony, but they'd be a much more of a pro-assimilation force within the immigrant community than the Muslim community leaders with their Muslim scholastic traditions.

If I had my druthers, though, Europe would take some of the Mexicans. They ought to be even closer culturally and we're getting more than we need.
 
Atarlost said:
I'd expect much better assimilation.

Uneducated Muslim immigrants want European standards of living, but bring Islam with them.

Uneducated Hindu immigrants would also want out of at least the social effects of the Hindu caste system.

Unless the educated Indians vanish they're much more able to either assimilate or lead their communities in a workable multiethnic compromise because the UK put a lot of effort into educating local administrators and building a local higher educational system in their image. This didn't work out so well for the UK because UK wasn't anyne's tame colony, but they'd be a much more of a pro-assimilation force within the immigrant community than the Muslim community leaders with their Muslim scholastic traditions.

If I had my druthers, though, Europe would take some of the Mexicans. They ought to be even closer culturally and we're getting more than we need.
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Reasonable analysis. As for the Mexicans, Yeah, they would fit in pretty well in Europe, though their crime rates might be high by European levels. In the US, it's much less noticeable because they're much less crime-prone than US blacks are, but most of Europe doesn't have huge black minorities like the US has.
 
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