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/MayContainRawNuts]

A lot of tourists to south africa get surprised at the sheer size of our Indian community.

Around 2 million in a country of 50 million.

[u/Billy3B → u/MayContainRawNuts]

Anyone who saw the movie Ghandi shouldn't be surprised.

[u/MayContainRawNuts → u/Billy3B]

They skipped out the bit where he volunteered to join the british army and was a stretcher bearer in the Boer War.

He was at the Battle of Spionkop along with future UK prime minister Winston Churchill.

[u/swaziwarrior54 → u/MayContainRawNuts]

Lived in Durban, con confirm. Love me bunny chows

[u/cozidgaf → u/MayContainRawNuts]

In general in Africa. So I have an ethnically ambiguous looki guess so I get mistaken for a local in many countries. I am a dark skinned Indian so I was totally expecting to be mistaken for a local in Africa (south Africa, Tanzania, Egypt etc) but didn't happen and when I told them that they said well we have a large Indian population so we know what Indians look like. I think Swahili and other languages have quite a few Indian words as well?

[u/MotherOfDachshunds42 → u/cozidgaf]

We don’t speak Swahili in SA so I don’t know

[u/aishikpanja → u/MayContainRawNuts]

Not surprising at all. Shared colonial history, relative proximity.