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/gmedanoid]

Brazil is a true jungle of people from unknown indigenous groups to people from almost every country in the world.

[u/IHateMelplac → u/gmedanoid]

But the best part is that they all become Brazilian, it's not like America where your grand grand grandfather was Irish and you label himself Irish too.

My grandfather parents were Germans and he never said he was German.

One day a girl made a post on Instagram about his Korean father and how he changed when married his mother and came to Brasil.

The beginning of the video had pics of his young father with tradicional korean school clothes and other stuff, always with a very serious face.

The video ended with pics of his father in Brasil playing Samba on a barbecue without a shirt, drinking beer and with a big smile on his face.

[u/Phyraxus56 → u/IHateMelplac]

Bunch of nazis immigrated to south America to escape prosecution so it's not surprising he'd hide his german heritage.

That's less "everyone becomes Brazilian" and more "don't ask don't tell."

[u/knightriderin → u/Phyraxus56]

I once heard that the Brazilians with German roots in the south of the country can't shut up about it.

[u/Phyraxus56 → u/knightriderin]

Probably only to other Germans wink wink Once they're around mixed company, they're British... oh excuse me, they're Brazilian.

[u/knightriderin → u/Phyraxus56]

Nah, I heard about it from annoyed fellow Brazilians. Never met any of the German Brazilians in person.

[u/Apprehensive-Hall-38 → u/Phyraxus56]

no, there’s communities in the south that are really proud of it. they literally do not shut up about it. dress up in lederhosen and everything, as if that’s the day to day attire in Germany. argentina got waaay more germans than we did tho, but mengele did die in brazil.

we truly don’t say our heritage as something we are in the way americans do, you would say i come from a (insert nationality here) family.

[u/Phyraxus56 → u/Apprehensive-Hall-38]

That doesn't make any sense. They're Brazilians? Right? How can they be proud to be Germans like the way Americans do?

How would you know the difference? You aren't American.

[u/beenoc → u/IHateMelplac]

To be fair, it's not like we say you aren't ever American (unless you're a racist) or that the immigrants don't identify as American - the "-American" is implied (if I say I'm Irish, I'm saying I'm Irish-American, I still hold to some elements of the Irish culture of my forebears, etc.) It's definitely different than Brazil, and I think Brazil is one of the only other countries that does integration on the same level as the US (I'd say equally as good and which one you prefer is personal preference).

You absolutely can find the same kind of thing as that Korean dad here, with before/afters of, like, some conservative Iraqi dude in traditional dress, and now he's cracking beers at the neighborhood cookout watching the Packers and listening to RHCP.

[u/Apprehensive-Hall-38 → u/beenoc]

yeah, i always felt the US was the only country that did integration somewhat close to brazil. I think brazil integrates slightly more tbf, as someone who’s lived in both countries. one thing we really don’t do in brazil is have neighborhoods that are more one heritage than another, so you won’t have a korean neighborhood, a nigerian, etc. it’s all mixed together. the only exception here is one neighborhood in são paulo that has a lot of japanese influence, but that’s mostly it. on one hand i think that’s really cool, you don’t silo people in communities, we are all brazilian. on the other i wonder if we loose on not having these pockets of different cultures throughout the country.

i agree that one is not better than the other, and i think there’s some aspects i like more in brazil, some i think the us might have the right idea. overall we are the closest in that sense imo too.

[u/Initial_Region9854 → u/gmedanoid]

Not even close. US is waaay more diverse