But what makes his words alarming are warnings such as "If we allow the mixing of different ethnic groups, this will naturally produce problems such as crime and social deprivation. Society will have to be ready to tackle these problems."

The reality is exactly the opposite: immigrant groups in Czech Republic, from the Vietnamese up to the Kenyans or Russians have actually prospered in comparison with a decade ago and have very often a much higher economic level than their Czech neighbors.

Unlike the widespread myth, there are only a couple of hundred Africans working in the shadowy business around cabarets, casinos and drugs in the center of Prague. Just that there are thousands of them living here, which means they are embedded within society's normal job structures, that is why it is not uncommon to have a black person in cashier at the supermarket or even, as my boyfriend found out, when he went for a routine health control check up in Prague, he was treated by a doctor from Africa, but who has lived and studied here for a long time. Is Mr Kapitán afraid that doctor's son will need state support or will become a gangster? How narrow minded for a man of his position...

Especially the African immigrants have been mixing with local Czechs and producing mulattoes whose mother tongue and only cultural background is Czech. And they are not suffering discrimination in school. The new generation of Czech kids have already grown up in a globalized mindset, they feel friends with people from all over the world within their Facebook profiles, unlike their parents, who discovered the world beyond Bulgaria and Croatia as adults, they have experienced travelling as a natural and easy thing to do. I have interviewed numerous kids from immigrant minorities and unlike in the 1990s, the new teenagers actually think their black or Asian classmates are hip. And the young Czech girls are more than often interested in having someone spicier than the typical local phlegmatic and crying baby type for a boyfriend...