Strangest Asian Immigrant Communities around the World

What are some of the strangest Asian immigrant communities around the world today? Asia is a massive continent with billions of people, the majority of humanity today. As could be expected, there is naturally quite a large number of Asians who have moved outside of their country or region of origin and gone far and wide, both in the distant past and in recent times. Some examples of this include the spread of Austronesians to Madagascar and the islands of Oceania, or through the migration of ancient north Eurasians into the Americas several thousand years ago. However, in today's video, we're mostly going to be looking at some of the more modern diaspora communities made up from immigrants from East and Southeast Asia, which is primarily what is meant when Americans use the term Asian in a racial connotation. Some of these interesting diaspora groups include Filipinos in Alaska and the Arctic, Hmong and Javanese in the Guianas, Japanese in Brazil, Thai in Scandinavia and many other unique communities around the world. Don't worry as the South Asia diaspora will actually be discussed in the next video coming soon. Thanks for watching!

[Kat-trig]

I live in Argentina, in a city in the middle of nowhere. There are probably around 200 Chinese immigrants living here. The supermarket that's one block from my house is owned by a Chinese couple. Their two kids are named Enzo and Olivia.

[safetynet-tllq]

Indonesian migrant
•Immigration during Dutch colonial era (Dutch East-Indies)
~Malay and Buginese (Indonesian) in South Africa
~Javanese in Suriname
~Javanese in New Caledonia

•Immigration (migrant workers/TKI) from 80' - now
~to Malaysia (contruction worker, plantation, housemaid)
~to Hong Kong and Taiwan (housemaid, nurse)
~to Saudi Arabia (contruction worker, housemaid)

•Immigration pre-Independence and post-Independence
~Javanese, Maluku in the Netherlands, mostly married with Dutch
~Rich Indonesian Chinese to Singapore, Australia, USA avoided anti-Chinese sentiment in 90s

[neilz.]

As a filipino; our biggest export by far are Overseas Filipino Workers.

[emarte]

I talked to a Brazilian barber from Paraná a few years ago and he said that mixed Japanese-Brazilians women are the most beautiful women.

[stephenLarson-vsfu]

Panama, which is a very diverse country ethnically, is very proud of its long-standing Chinese minority, most of whose ancestors came during the building of the Canal.

[lordguan]

Chinese/Javanese here but born in the US. Currently in Chile so I need to visit the Javanese on the other side of the continent

[Ludraman_]

There's lots of people from East Timor in Northern Ireland, initially they were refugees who came in the 90s but many have continued to migrate there afterwards

[carkawalakhatulistiwa]

90% of Indonesian jobs that go abroad return to Indonesia.Proving that Indonesia is not an immigrant but an expat.Even more Australians want to migrate to Indonesia than Indonesians want to migrate to Australia.But Australia could still have a migrant crisis

[mozax]

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[christophershirley]

I work at a hotel and had a guest not long ago with a Kazakh passport and a Korean name, and that's how I began learning about the Korean diaspora in Central Asia.

[yeejkooblis]

Thank you for recognizing my people. The Hmong are spread from China, Laos, Thailand, Burma, France, Canada, United States, and also Australia. We also have some in India and surprisingly enough Argentina

[Kamarovsky_KCM]

One that I found surprising is the quite large Vietnamese diaspora here in Poland. In fact, they're the largest non-European ethnic minority in Poland!

[prst]

I am a Han Chinese in America (Hawaii). Born in US to Han Chinese parents from Myanmar. Mother is Hakka speaking and Mandarin speaking while Father doesn’t know any Chinese but is Hokkien. I only speak English fluently but Mandarin conversationally and partially literate. I can understand Burmese but cannot speak and illiterate.

[VikingRomano]

Brazil have the largest japanese comunity outside of Japan. And majority of them are assimilated to the Brazillian Culture different to asians in US and many Brazilians are mestizos of Japanese and White/Pardo

[hahhsshs]

The Chinese diaspora in Indonesia numbers around 20 million people, the largest in the world, the Dutch diaspora in Indonesia numbers millions, and South Korean immigrants in Indonesia number around 100, 000 thousand people. South Korean immigrants to Indonesia were brought by Japanese colonialists as Japanese troops during the Japanese colonization of Indonesia

[balintmikoczi]

An other interesting example is Vietnamese people migrating to former Eastern Bloc countries, especially to Czechia, where they are the 3rd biggest minority with 80k people

[caseclosed]

Put this out the same week Alberto Fujimori died. He was the president of Peru and was of Japanese descent, although many people see him as having been a dictator…

[minang]

There is a proverb in Indonesia:
"Hujan batu di negeri sendiri, lebih baik daripada hujan emas di negeri orang."

This means: "Stone rain in your own country is still better than golden rain in a foreign land."

It means despite challenges or hardships in one's own country, it is still preferable to the comforts or prosperity found elsewhere because of the deep connection to home.
Therefore, most Indonesian students are coming home after graduating from universities abroad. It’s totally different than let’s say Indian or Chinese students who prefer to stay.

[Demographiaanthropology]

the koreans in central asia sure are random and unexpected

[TTminh-whme]

The vietnamese community in poland and czechia are also quite large, definitely the largest non-european immigrant group of these countries.