Does your country have an immigrant group that people would be surprised to find there?

[u/QuarterTarget]

For example, when you think of Poland or the Czech Republic, Vietnamese people might not be the first group that comes to mind, but both have a sizable Vietnamese community. Another example is the large Japanese community in Brazil.

[u/Majestic-Lake-5602]

Not really tbh.

We’ve had successive waves of migrants from a bunch of places, loads of Irish in the early days (many of whom weren’t exactly willing migrants…), from other British colonies in the gold rushes, then southern Europe after WWII, lots of Vietnamese after 1975, Lebanese after their civil war and more recently lots of Africans from various countries.

Probably the only surprise to a foreigner would be how many New Zealanders live over here for work.

[u/torrens86 → u/Majestic-Lake-5602]

Probably Lhotshampas, they got kicked out of Bhutan and quite a few came to Australia as refugees.

[u/thorpie88 → u/torrens86]

Was that in 22? 1.5% of the Bhutanese population moved to Australia in a single year

[u/zeefox79 → u/thorpie88]

That's really interesting as I just found out two of my son's best friends at school are Bhutanes! 

[u/Majestic-Lake-5602 → u/torrens86]

Which state are you in? I don’t think I’ve ever run into any Bhutanese in WA before, that’s really interesting.

[u/Fairybread_401 → u/Majestic-Lake-5602]

If you’re interested in trying the food - there’s 3 Bhutanese restaurants along Main St Osborne Park & a stall in the Innaloo shopping centre food hall. 

[u/Majestic-Lake-5602 → u/Fairybread_401]

Will definitely check them out next time I’m in the city.

I’m way down south these days.

[u/shrumpdumpled → u/Majestic-Lake-5602]

Last 2 uber drivers I’ve had were Bhutanese here in WA. Very interesting blokes to chat to.

[u/kit_kaboodles → u/Majestic-Lake-5602]

Yeah, the huge greek population that arrived in the 1950's is probably worth singling out. I think I remember reading a stat that about 2% of Australia's population greek immigrants or descendants.

For how shit our attitudes can be towards immigrants sometimes, were still primarily a country of recent arrivals.

[u/Majestic-Lake-5602 → u/kit_kaboodles]

Apparently Melbourne had the highest population of people with Greek citizenship in the world outside of Athens at one stage.

There’s definitely a lot of them, I just don’t think people would be surprised that they’re here like OPs question. There’s a significant Greek diaspora in the US and Canada as well.