Actually, I do love the country that I grew up in (although not uncritically). When I was growing up in the 50s my home town, Peterborough, was full of immigrants - Poles, Italians, Ukrainians etc., etc. These were mostly people displaced by the 2nd World War and its aftermath and I am very proud of the fact that my home town gave these people a refuge. Later other people arrived - West Indians and people from various parts of South West Asia. No doubt there were, and probably still are, problems - but what an amazing experiment in tolerance and understanding (especially given the dire events in other parts of world during the 20th Century).
Now I live in NW England - another area with a rich, multicultural heritage - and still there are problems and, possibly, plenty of examples where one group is, or appears to be, favoured over another. Personally, though, I wouldn't have it any other way.

I also have my own employment story. Recently my job was made redundant and I found myself on the 'scrapheap' at the age of 57. Around the time that this was happening the company that I worked for took on a youngish lad from one of the new 'emerging' European nations to the East and he filled a role in the same department in which I had been working. Now I suppose, if I was mean-spirited enough, I could shout about this lad 'taking my job'; in actual fact he did nothing of the sort because he was trained in a specialism that the company was in need of. In fact the company had been unable to find a British worker to fill this particular role. I see very clearly here that the 'culprit' is not my friend from Eastern Europe (who is only trying to make a living like the rest of us) but the 'system' that treats people like commodities. I prefer to direct my political energies towards changing the system (by lawful means, of course) rather than scapegoating foreigners.