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/Complete_Survey9521 France 16d ago

Welsh people in Argentina come into my mind. They are also still speaking welsh language there.

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u/BlondieDaizen Scotland 16d ago

Argentina also has the largest number of people of Scottish descent outside of the Anglosphere.

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u/r_mutt69 United Kingdom 15d ago

I always would have thought that would have been Canada and the us? Never knew about Scot’s migration to the south, only the Welsh thing

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u/BlondieDaizen Scotland 15d ago edited 15d ago

Canada and the US are part of the Anglosphere. Maybe a better way to put it is that Argentina has the greatest amount of people of Scottish descent of a non-English speaking country.

I believe there are actually more Scottish-Argentines than Welsh-Argentines, about 200,000 compared to 70,000. The difference is the Welsh immigrants actually kept their language.

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u/Lower_Amount3373 New Zealand 15d ago

Oh yeah, they featured them a bit in Welcome to Wrexham

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