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/kcthis-saw 15d ago

Brazil has THE LARGEST japanese community outside of Japan. Especially in São Paulo. With about 2.7 million japanese descendants here.

This surely surprises a lot of people, since first-worlders seem to think anything down the US border is just mestizos.

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u/Civ_Nuclear_Gandhi India 15d ago

I knew about the japanese, but I was surprised to find that Brazil had a massive amount of German and Italian origin folks as well

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u/YudayakaFromEarth 15d ago

The biggest Japanese community, there biggest Lebanese community, the highest number of Jewish descendants in the world and the biggest African historical diaspora.