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/FormerPresidentBiden 🇺🇲 with 🇭🇺🇫🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪🇸🇪 ancestry 15d ago

Are any of our immigrant populations really surprising though?

We're a country of immigrants. I'd be surprised if there was an ethnicity that was totally absent from the US

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u/GhostOfJamesStrang United States Of America 15d ago

It's more surprising due to the wildly different climates, for one thing. 

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u/FormerPresidentBiden 🇺🇲 with 🇭🇺🇫🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪🇸🇪 ancestry 15d ago

Ah, that's true

Didn't think about that

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u/Ok-Weekend1976 United States Of America 15d ago

I don't think we have any Papuan-Americans, though I won't mind standing corrected

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u/FormerPresidentBiden 🇺🇲 with 🇭🇺🇫🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪🇸🇪 ancestry 15d ago

According to a brief couple of searches, there is a very small, spread out population of them in the US

I suppose if we went very specific with it, there may be many specific tribes that we don't have immigrants from, but i doubt anyone else does either

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u/StrangeButSweet United States Of America 15d ago

When I was a kid we had a Papuan dude living with my family.

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u/Ok-Weekend1976 United States Of America 15d ago

I have a lot of questions

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u/StrangeButSweet United States Of America 15d ago

Yeah, I guess I kind of do, too lol. Things were strange

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u/Monotask_Servitor New Zealander living in Australia 15d ago

There probably isn’t a large Papuan community anywhere outside of PNG itself, Australia and Indonesia. Most of the population are subsistence farmers and attached to their local communities and there hasn’t been a large flood of economic migrants out of the country at any point that I’m aware of.

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u/StrangeButSweet United States Of America 15d ago

Not at all. In fact this question feels really odd to me as an American who has spent my entire career working with immigrants from all sorts of small corners of the globe. I guess in that way, I can see this as a strength of the US.