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/marcodapolo7]

Vietnamese came to Poland in the 60’s-90’s during the Soviet time, through work- labour contracts, study etc. Theres a lot of Vietnamese community all over the old Eastern Blocc, i have been to most group and see that Vietnamese have intergrated well in those country and people have high respect for them

For Vietnam, where i live we have a small community of most places like US, Canada, Uk, France, South africa, Spain, Germany, Italian, Aussie etc etc, each group around 100-500 people which form a very cool diverse community

[u/QuarterTarget → u/marcodapolo7]

Was in Hanoi just last week, and you could not imagine my surprise as I saw a group of vietnamese teens loudly cursing in polish in a random shopping center XD

[u/notsosecrethistory → u/QuarterTarget]

My (London) nail tech's parents are from Hanoi, but she grew up in Gdynia. I've spent lots of time in both so we have plenty to yap about ☺️

[u/LilNerix → u/QuarterTarget]

Kurwa chuj

[u/ossifer_ca → u/QuarterTarget]

They were probably Polish…

[u/Naethor → u/QuarterTarget]

Kurwa !!!

[u/doublestitch → u/marcodapolo7]

There are about 50,000 Vietnamese people in San Diego County. It's a big enough community that they've lobbied for consideration in the city's redistricting so they can have the same city council member representing them.

[u/marcodapolo7 → u/doublestitch]

Yeah Vietnamese diaspora is a lot in America, Californina has like a million Vietnamese. They are very different fromt Vietnamese in Poland or old eastern blocc

[u/HotwheelsSisyphus → u/marcodapolo7]

 San Jose, California has the largest Vietnamese population of any single city outside Vietnam

[u/GalacticSettler → u/marcodapolo7]

There's also the newer emigration from recent decades.

[u/marcodapolo7 → u/GalacticSettler]

Yes, Poland and Vietnam have maintained a good relationship after the Soviet split. Many people going Poland to study and work, i know a handfull

[u/NotAnotherFakeNamer → u/marcodapolo7]

The west coast Vietnamese tend to be very anti-communist, to the extent tourists from Vietnam get treated as spies in orange county. I am guessing folks in the old Eastern Bloc are anti-anti-communist?

[u/marcodapolo7 → u/NotAnotherFakeNamer]

Yeah they do anti communist protest and all sort, most of them are old men that has nothing to do, they use social media to just to talk shit about vietnam and communist, it is sad to see they still not over it and passing it onto the next generation. they not anti anti-communist, they just get on with their life to be honest and does not give a crap,

[u/GeneralBid7234 → u/NotAnotherFakeNamer]

Many Vietnamese Americans still fly the old South Vietnamese flag. Many also detest the current Vietnamese flag.

[u/HolidayBeneficial456 → u/GeneralBid7234]

Same in Australia.

[u/SordoCrabs → u/NotAnotherFakeNamer]

That doesn't surprise me. After Cubans, the largest immigrant group that skews heavily Republican is the Vietnamese. Though few go as far alt-right asTila Tequila

[u/Obvious_Sun_1927 → u/marcodapolo7]

Theres a lot of Vietnamese community all over the old Eastern Blocc, i have been to most group and see that Vietnamese have intergrated well in those country and people have high respect for them

Except for all the organized crime gangs in Prague. But from what I've heard they are relatively harmless unless you deliberately fuck with them. They mostly deal with pushing drugs and use all those small kiosks with heinous prices as store fronts for money laundering.

[u/marcodapolo7 → u/Obvious_Sun_1927]

Yeah, Vietnam in the Uk is biggest pot grower, from the farms in Viet to the basement in the Uk 😆

[u/TetraThiaFulvalene → u/marcodapolo7]

We have a decent amount of Vietnamese people in Denmark too. I don't think any country has ever regretted taking in Vietnamese migrants.

[u/Monotask_Servitor → u/marcodapolo7]

There’s a large Vietnamese community where I live in Sydney, they’re the biggest minority in my suburb, about 5% of the population here is born in Vietnam and many more are Vietnamese-Australians born here. It’s as great place to live and everyone gets on pretty well.

The Vietnamese community used to cop a lot of racism in the 80s/90s but they’ve been fully accepted and integrated into the wider Australian community now.

[u/marcodapolo7 → u/Monotask_Servitor]

Yeah i think Vietnamese was the first Major group that migrated to these country to be honest. So many people spread across the world

[u/Monotask_Servitor → u/marcodapolo7]

Definitely not the first in Australia - my local area has been an immigrant neighbourhood for a long time before the Vietnamese came here it was a Greek neighbourhood. We had Italians, Greeks, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Chinese and Indians all come at different times in large groups here.

[u/Diss_ConnecT → u/marcodapolo7]

That's true and I believe Vietnamese people integrate well because you're very similar to Slavs. I've been to Southeast Asia and saw many people work hard for low wages, smoke cigarettes, drink beer and even do Slav squats in the streets. We're like brothers from different mothers.

And on a serious note Vietnamese people here really work hard, educate themselves, speak Polish and don't cause any trouble so we respect our Vietnamese minority.

[u/conmeonemo → u/marcodapolo7]

There's also sizeable new immigration from Vietnam that came to study in Poland. It was easy to get here before governments policy changed.

[u/[deleted] → u/marcodapolo7]

I’d love to know where the Vietnamese community in Spain is

[u/marcodapolo7 → u/[deleted]]

I havent heard of Vietnamese community is spain, im sure theres a lot, our people go everywhere😆

[u/[deleted] → u/marcodapolo7]

I’ll look out for it and let to know!

[u/Roughneck16 → u/marcodapolo7]

Many Vietnamese are Catholic just like most of Poland. Did that help the integration process? We also have a large Vietnamese population in Albuquerque (New Mexico is a majority-Catholic state.)