[groundlogic]

Really? I've never been as hung over as the day after I was drinking vodka with my polish counterpart software developers. Granted, they were still living in Poland, so not really immigrants, but they were probably amongst the 5-10% highest paid people in the country.

(Swede here.)

[Tade0]

I can tell from experience that this may be due to them graduating from a technical university in Poland.

Young men[0] around here still bond via drinking lethal amounts of vodka. I know of at least one death caused by this.

[0] The gender imbalance in CS is so severe that I remember bragging to my friends how I was not only acquainted with both of the female students in our year at the Warsaw University of Technology, but also both of the ones that started studying CS in 2010 at the University of Warsaw.

[lapnitnelav]

On my first day in a new house, I was greeted with a mug of vodka by my (long time settled in Ireland) Polish housemate.

Yeah, that was a tough one to swallow, literally.

[opportune]

Perhaps it differs from country to country, most Eastern European immigrants I know are Jewish people who immigrated in the 90s. But most of the more recent ones are also not really drinkers