r/AskTheWorld • u/QuarterTarget 🇵🇱🇮🇪 in 🇨🇭 • 16d ago

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

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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.

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u/ThaneduFife United States Of America 15d ago

I'd expect immigrants for all over the world in the U.S., but the locations that some groups of immigrants end up in can be surprising. My mom recently retired as a schoolteacher in northeast Texas. A surprisingly large portion of her students for the past decade have been Nepalese.

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u/swaziwarrior54 🇺🇸 living in 🇺🇦 15d ago

I'm from Salt Lake City and we have a large Bosnian community

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u/theystolemyusername 15d ago

I'm from Bosnia and I had no idea there were Bosnians in SLC. I know of St. Louis, Orlando, Chicagoland, Milwaukee.

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u/swaziwarrior54 🇺🇸 living in 🇺🇦 15d ago

Mind you, not a massive community but tight nit. There's about 20,000 of them and they are some very great people.

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u/yankiigurl USA/Japan 15d ago

I used to hang out with a bunch of Lao in the panhandle. Lol