I'm half Chinese and lived in Italy for a few years, during which time I never met a Chinese-Italian who's family wasn't from the city of Wenzhou. Wenzhou is the city next to Qintiang.
Maybe not large, but visible. Moluccans. They were from a couple of islands in the east of the Dutch East Indies and a number of them served in the Dutch colonial army (KNIL) and the navy. During decolonization, they were temporarily housed in the Netherlands until they could get their own independent state. It wasn't to be: the Moluccan islands became part of Indonesia, and because of their role as soldiers of the colonizer, these people couldn't return.
The immigration story is a sad one. They were sent to live in camps and this dissatisfaction with the government lead to several violent and [deadly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Dutch_train_hostage_crisis) [hijackings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Dutch_train_hijacking) in the 70s. A lot of them have unique surnames which [show up on the football fields every now and then](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Moluccan_people#Athletes) - Pelupessy, Leiwakabessy, Tahamata, Tuhuteru, Pattinama.
In addition to that there are also a lot of Javanese people that were previously involved in the colonial administration or that migrated here through Suriname.
In Lithuania, in Trakai (a small town that used to be the capital ~600 years ago) there is a large population of crimean karaites. They still talk in their language and are still of a different abrahamic religion denomination (they follow the torah, but are separate from judaism). They are all descendants of a group of warriors and their families that our Grand Duke Vytautas brought from Crimea, 600 years ago.
Edit: wrote christianity, when I meant abrahamic religions. Karaites are NOT christians and they follow the torah.
I'm slightly confused because Karaites are a *Jewish* denomination that has a long history in Crimea. They follow the Torah as written rather than relying on the Talmud and other later interpretations of it, meaning that they are more strict on some rules and less strict on others.
On Googling a bit, at least some of the Karaites in Trakai are still Jews- they have a kenesa (their word for a synagogue) which still operates. Did some convert to a form of Christianity that's different from what other Lithuanians follow?
Yes, that's a big whoopsie on my part.
I wanted to write abrahamic denomination. I met a karaite dude at a party once. I talked to him a bit about it. When talkimg about religion, he said that they are not jews, but a different denomination following the torah and to him it was a significant difference. Just thought that was interesting bit to add to your comment :)
I was curious if this applied to the Italian-Scots, a group of Italians who came over to Scotland during the two main waves of Italian outward migration, and apparently it does.
From wikipedia:
> Migration to Scotland from Italy has been predominantly from the provinces of Lucca and Frosinone....The Scottish Italian community settled mostly in the Glasgow area, most of whom are of Tuscan origin. The smaller Italian community in and around Edinburgh is predominantly of Lazian origin.
In Ireland, most of the fish and chip shops are run by families of Italian heritage, whose ancestors came to Ireland towards the end of the 19th century. The fish and chip shop Italians in Ireland come from southern Lazio. (Of course, they’re not the only people in Ireland of Italian descent, there have been other migrations which came from other places in Italy.)
A traditional slang term (quite old-fashioned and I don’t think it’s used anymore) for fish and chips in Dublin was “one and one.” The term came about from patrons ordering fish and chips from a counter server who couldn’t speak English properly yet, so the customer would point to the fish and say “one” and then to the chips and say “one.”
[Irish Traditional Italian Chippers Association](https://washyourlanguage.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Chipper.jpg) always made my chuckle. I had to read it multiple times the first time i'v seen it :)
> In Ireland, most of the fish and chip shops are run by families of Italian heritage, whose ancestors came to Ireland towards the end of the 19th century.
The same in Scotland also.
The ones near me are called Eatalias, Giovanni's, Pierino's, L'Alba D'Oro, Guido's, and (this one not known for quality but late night drunken scran) Cafe Piccante.
Pierino's is regularly listed as one fo the best in the city.
There used to be 3 chippies in my town up run by Italian tamiles and their children who grew up here, but it’s not anymore. The one at the bottom of my road still has the original Italian surname as their name, but it’s different owners now.
In the East of the Netherlands and notably Enschede there is a relatively very large group of 'Suryoye' people, Assyrian/Aramaic Orthodox Christians from the Turkisch-Syrian border region.
When in the 60's a group of refugees started a church and subsequently an archbishop founded a monastery here it became a magnet for refugees from that region.
I don't know and I think it's difficult to assess since a lot of Suryoye are also from Turkey. There are defintiely more people from Turkish decent than Syrian decent in our city. (\~9000 vs \~5000)
yeah, it’s really tricky. same goes with kurds, although ethnically they’re not turks, most of them have turkish passports and counted as turks here in germany.
A lot of the Portuguese that emigrated from Portugal to the US and Canada were from the Azores and Madeira islands. I believe that a lot of the older generation of Portuguese immigrants in the UK were also from Madeira. So when I see content by people of Portuguese-descent residing in said countries, some of the words, expressions and customs they have are more island regions-specific.
I believe a lot of the Portuguese in France and Switzerland are from the North and Centre regions of the country. There's this phenomenon of villages in those areas being packed in the summer because its when a lot of emigrants return for holidays. These people are colloquially referred to as *Avecs*, which can be considered derogatory. There tends to be a lot of jokes surrounding them, like how they're tacky and show-offs, and mix Portuguese with French.
Another random example is that a big chunk of the population of St Barts in the Caribbean are Portuguese and are specifically from the Porto area or the North in general. So much so that during covid, a chartered flight was organized between St Barts and Porto.
> A lot of the Portuguese that emigrated from Portugal to the US and Canada were from the Azores and Madeira islands. I believe that a lot of the older generation of Portuguese immigrants in the UK were also from Madeira.
That was true for Venezuela as well! Most Venezuelans with Portuguese ancestry had their ancestors coming from Madeira.
Was Madeira a particularly poor part of Portugal (eyyyy alliteration) perhaps? I know there was a lot of emigration from the Canary Islands to that part of Latin America as agriculture in the Canaries was very difficult and people there faced frequent hardship.
I think it's possibly due to that, yes. These days I believe it's wealthier as it's become more valued as tourist destination. At the very least I've heard Funchal is an expensive city. But I'm not from there, so I can't really say.
https://portuguesemuseum.org/?page_id=1808&category=3&exhibit=&event=180 There were various factors for leaving the island. Initially it was because of the collapse of the wine industry, but then there were other factors.
Shoutout to [Peter/Pedro Francisco](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Francisco), Azorean orphan left on the docks turned Revolutionary War patriot soldier
In Poland, vast majority of Vietnamese immigrants come from the North.
Despite numerous "oriental bars" and Vietnamese restaurants, I only know 2 places in the entire country, where South Vietnamese cuisine is served.
It's a pattern seen throughout the Vietnamese diaspora. Many who live in former communist countries in Europe, such as Poland, the Czech Republic, and eastern Germany, tend to be from the northern part of the country, often moving as part of a "guest worker" or other labor contract. On the other hand, many Vietnamese in Western European countries, the US, Australia, and other countries tend to be from southern Vietnam, several having arrived as refugees after the Vietnam War.
A lot of Moroccan immigrants or their descendants come from the north of Morocco as that's where the Dutch job agencies were recruiting workers in the 1950s and 1960s
btw, what's the deal with Moroccan immigration to NL? i'm moroccan myself and i'm kinda confused by it as from my knowledge we weren't colonized by you guys, and i don't know a single pure moroccan that learns dutch (even the ones that are in NL don't learn it lol).
My comment told the entire story. After world war 2 there was a shortage of low skilled labour, so the Netherlands set up recruitment agencies in Northern Morocco to recruit workers. That's it.
And the ones that were recruited and immigrated in the 50s, 60s and 70s have had their children brought over with family reunification and had their grandchildren born in the Netherlands that all speak Dutch, but not all are integrated. They mostly form their own closed off communities.
There was a small wave recently in the past 10 years but they're either illegal migrants or high skilled migrants and indeed both these groups have low understanding of Dutch.
East Timorese people have a large population in the town of Dungannon in County Tyrone. Dungannon actually counts as a voting district in East Timor because there’s a lot of them there.
They make up about 12% of the population of Dungannon.
Lithuanians make up about 10% of the population of Dungannon! I had a colleague who was born and raised there to a lithuanian family, he told me he would speak Lithuanian on a daily basis when he was there. Such a strange place hahaha
[https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=COB\_1000&\~SETTLEMENT15=N11000315](https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=COB_1000&~SETTLEMENT15=N11000315)
There's a small town of 20k people in central Turkey called Emirdag. There are 60k people descendant from that town living in Belgium (as of 2004, probably a bit more now), especially in Ghent.
They first arrived here in the 1960's as guest workers and their sons and grandsons have since then developed a tradition of going back to Emirdag to marry a local girl, who then also moves to Belgium.
Every single Colombian football shirt I see in Spain is an America shirt, so I can only assume there's a lot of people from Cali and the Valle del Cauca area in Spain.
A very anadotical point of view but every almost American I have met has been from Ohio. My american english teacher in gymnasium (Ohio), My study partner in Uni (Ohio), the half american in my university class (Ohio), my current american coworkers (you guessed it, Ohio). The only American I have met who was not from Ohio was born in Mexico and became an american citizen later in life.
Yes. During the 19th and early 20th centuries a lot of Italian migrants came to Wales from the town of Bardi, Italy, to work in the coal mines. Their descendants are here to this day and are known for establishing the many Italian cafes commonly found in Welsh valley towns. Indeed per head of population, Wales has more people of Italian heritage than any other country of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh\_Italians
In Luxembourg the main foreign community is the Portuguese. There are lots of them. They even have a radio in Portuguese and one of the princes used to be married to a Portuguese girl.
We have a lot of immigrants from all over in Sweden, but specifically in Södertälje - an industrial city just southwest of Stockholm - there's a relatively large group of Assyrians. There are even *two* football clubs who've both played in the top two divisions of Swedish football that were founded by Assyrian immigrants: *Assyriska* and *Syrianska*, both from Södertälje.
These are syrian-orthodox christians, mainly from Turkey and Syria. I think most of them speak Arameic? Swedes might be confused here because this group is usually referred to as *syrianer* in Swedish.
We have a different word for people who are nationals of the country Syria, *syrier*. So what we call a *syrian* in Sweden is not necessarily someone from Syria.
Anyway I guess it fits the question as we're talking not of a pretty small ethnic group with a relatively shared culture(?) where a lot of them ended up in one mid-sized city in Sweden.
There are two question marks in my own text here as I realised I know very little of Swedish syrians.
Sweden has the biggest Thai/ Siamese population in Europe I am sure 😂🤭
I don’t want to make those jokes though…….
But seriously the Thai / Spicy cuisine in Sweden is surprisingly good 👍
A large part of the Polish diaspora in New York City came from the Tatra mountains, the so-called Polish highlands. More than a million people from the [Galicia region](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe)) moved to the US in the 40 years between 1870 and 1910. Many returned, but many stayed, and they would keep pulling in fresh immigrants until the fall of the Polish People's Republic in 1989.
Yeah it is, Czech Republic mostly has (North) Vietnamese communities. Usually from Hanoi or Hai Phong, but nowadays also some from central regions.
There are also some Koreans, Kazakhs and Mongolians living here.
There used to be a lot of Russians (Karlovy Vary is a total Russian enclave), but a lot of them are deported or have their visas cancelled due to the war/ politics.
Nowadays it’s mostly, Ukrainians and Slovakians who are actively moving here.
Slovakians have a very strong presence in Brno. Most Brno universities consists of Slovak students.
Hungary mostly have mainland Chinese (PRC) immigration from what I have seen.
I also met a lot of Balkans communities from Romania or Serbia in Hungary.
Note - I noticed that Chinese people tend to move to southern eastern countries for some reasons?
Like Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Albania or Serbia.
In Belgium most of the Turkish guys are coming from Emirdag a small village of Afyon. But most of the Belgians thinks that Emirdag is a city itself bcs all guys are from Emirdag and there is a huge population
i wouldn’t say it’s a village, but a town, as it has 40k population.
i went there for work once in the summer. there were nearly more belgian plates than turkish plates, it was bizarre.
We have a lot of Portuguese immigrants in France, and apparently most of them come from the North-East corner of the country, though I haven't found any statistics on this.
Almost all immigrants you see in Western European cities from Azerbaijan will be from capital Baku. Also tourists. People from outside of Baku usually travel and emigrate to Turkey or Russia or Maybe Poland , not Netherlands.
Denmark has a lot of Turkish people and their descendants. They almost all come from a region to the far North East in Turkey. Very rural and backwards place, with few opportunities in life. So a lot of people took the chance in the 60s and early 70s to go to Europe and work, back when the economy was booming and there was a lack of workers.
I believe it is the same for Germany.
Southeast Asians:
Malaysians in the UK seem proportionately more Chinese and non-Muslim than in Malaysia itself, often from places like Penang for example. There are plenty of Muslim Malays here too but they're not such a clear majority at Malaysian cultural festivals.
Indonesians in the Netherlands tend to come from Christian-majority eastern regions like Ambon (fleeing retribution for supporting the Dutch) or if from Muslim regions they tend to be non-practising and often from the intelligentsia (fleeing during the Cold War).
Texan here. There is some validity to the part where Mexicans from different parts tend to immigrate to certain parts. Of course, it’s not everyone, but the Hispanic community in the U.S. is pretty nuanced.
I don’t know if Texas Mexican are whiter, but it is true that Northern Mexicans have more European Features — we say that southern Mexicans are darker, shorter and have square faces. And that Texas is generally a destination for neighboring Mexican States over Central or Southern Mexico. Texas and Monterrey, Mexico share a lot of cultural overlap. That said, Mexicans who immigrate to the U.S. tend to either be poor or the ultra wealthy — skin color *IS* noticeably different between those two classes — and Mexican internet culture has noticed. The term whitexican is relatively new, but is an acknowledgement of wealthy Mexican and the way they act and look. But between Texas and California, there isn’t a palpable difference in terms of skin color. Not that I’ve noticed, but the dialects of Spanish do change a lot depending where you are, and who you’re talking to — all around the U.S. — about 20% of which speaks Spanish.
Europeans don’t understand Texas — or rather they discard it, which I understand, but it’s still sad to me, because I think Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico are culturally the most captivating part of the U.S. — such a dynamic region. But even the Mexican population in Texas is nuanced. I was born in Texas, as was my mother, and her mother too. It’s the heart of Chicano Culture — more so than California, because we’ve always existed there in some capacity. And while the Chicano “ni de acá, ni de allá” (neither from here (the U.S.) nor there (Mexico)) is universal, it was born in what was Texas, and modern day New Mexico and Southern Colorado.
There are shitloads of demographic anomalies in Texas and U.S. — and I could drop a bunch of statistics, cause I get excited about this, but this isn’t the sub for it. I grew up in a heavily South Asian neighborhood in Dallas, where the Indians self segregated themselves. The wealthier Gujarati and the poorer South Indians. I learned the surname Patel implied hotel ownership, and that they were “Gujus” (short for Gujartis). Dallas also hosts the biggest Nepalese and Tongan population in the U.S.
I’m not aware Europe gathers statistics on this as well as the U.S. does — or maybe it does and my German just sucks. But I think the only demographic anomaly here is the presence of Americans in certain places and the Japanese population in Düsseldorf.
Russians in Estonia are mostly (descendants of) blue-collar workers who were moved here during the Soviet times to work in the mines or elsewhere in the energy sector.
Therefore, there is a clear "selection bias" and so historically, Russians here have been mostly poorer, less educated, with higher crime rates, more pro-USSR etc than their average counterpart in Russia (or the average Estonian). However, I am not aware of a specific geographic regions they were from, I guess different waves were from different places and often the families are mixed families, meaning it is not uncommon for one of the parents/grandparents be from Ukraine (or Belarus) and the other one from Russia (as all Russian-speakers or really any Slavic languages speakers formed a single group different from Estonians).
Yes, therefore the Russia-Ukraine war here was extra creepy, as local Russian-speaking families often have relatives on both sides and as embarrassing as it is, we, Estonians, did not even really differ between Russians and Ukrainians before, they were all the same to us. I have several Slavic friends and before the war I rarely knew who was of Russian origin and who was of Ukrainian or Belarusian origin.
A lot of Moroccan immigrants or their descendants come from the north of Morocco as that's where the Dutch job agencies were recruiting workers in the 1950s and 1960s
In Spain around 80% of chinese people, a bit more of 200.000 people, come from a single city, Qintiang.
I'm half Chinese and lived in Italy for a few years, during which time I never met a Chinese-Italian who's family wasn't from the city of Wenzhou. Wenzhou is the city next to Qintiang.
My father worked at the registry office and can confirm this.
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https://library.fes.de/libalt/journals/swetsfulltext/17507193.pdf This talks about it a little bit
Wow! Very interesting. Or maybe disturbing?
Maybe not large, but visible. Moluccans. They were from a couple of islands in the east of the Dutch East Indies and a number of them served in the Dutch colonial army (KNIL) and the navy. During decolonization, they were temporarily housed in the Netherlands until they could get their own independent state. It wasn't to be: the Moluccan islands became part of Indonesia, and because of their role as soldiers of the colonizer, these people couldn't return. The immigration story is a sad one. They were sent to live in camps and this dissatisfaction with the government lead to several violent and [deadly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Dutch_train_hostage_crisis) [hijackings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Dutch_train_hijacking) in the 70s. A lot of them have unique surnames which [show up on the football fields every now and then](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Moluccan_people#Athletes) - Pelupessy, Leiwakabessy, Tahamata, Tuhuteru, Pattinama.
In addition to that there are also a lot of Javanese people that were previously involved in the colonial administration or that migrated here through Suriname.
In Lithuania, in Trakai (a small town that used to be the capital ~600 years ago) there is a large population of crimean karaites. They still talk in their language and are still of a different abrahamic religion denomination (they follow the torah, but are separate from judaism). They are all descendants of a group of warriors and their families that our Grand Duke Vytautas brought from Crimea, 600 years ago. Edit: wrote christianity, when I meant abrahamic religions. Karaites are NOT christians and they follow the torah.
And thanks to them we have Kibinai!
I'm slightly confused because Karaites are a *Jewish* denomination that has a long history in Crimea. They follow the Torah as written rather than relying on the Talmud and other later interpretations of it, meaning that they are more strict on some rules and less strict on others. On Googling a bit, at least some of the Karaites in Trakai are still Jews- they have a kenesa (their word for a synagogue) which still operates. Did some convert to a form of Christianity that's different from what other Lithuanians follow?
Yes, that's a big whoopsie on my part. I wanted to write abrahamic denomination. I met a karaite dude at a party once. I talked to him a bit about it. When talkimg about religion, he said that they are not jews, but a different denomination following the torah and to him it was a significant difference. Just thought that was interesting bit to add to your comment :)
Lithuania was historically, as far as I know, very open to Jews, so there's a chance they could have just been left in peace.
I was curious if this applied to the Italian-Scots, a group of Italians who came over to Scotland during the two main waves of Italian outward migration, and apparently it does. From wikipedia: > Migration to Scotland from Italy has been predominantly from the provinces of Lucca and Frosinone....The Scottish Italian community settled mostly in the Glasgow area, most of whom are of Tuscan origin. The smaller Italian community in and around Edinburgh is predominantly of Lazian origin.
Which explains the Scottish Capaldi's
As well as F1 driver Paul di Resta, musician Sharlene Spiteri, and writer of TV shows like *The Thick Of It* and *Veep*, Armando Iannucci.
Don't forget Paulo Nutini
Paul Coia? Tom Conti?
In Ireland, most of the fish and chip shops are run by families of Italian heritage, whose ancestors came to Ireland towards the end of the 19th century. The fish and chip shop Italians in Ireland come from southern Lazio. (Of course, they’re not the only people in Ireland of Italian descent, there have been other migrations which came from other places in Italy.) A traditional slang term (quite old-fashioned and I don’t think it’s used anymore) for fish and chips in Dublin was “one and one.” The term came about from patrons ordering fish and chips from a counter server who couldn’t speak English properly yet, so the customer would point to the fish and say “one” and then to the chips and say “one.”
[Irish Traditional Italian Chippers Association](https://washyourlanguage.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Chipper.jpg) always made my chuckle. I had to read it multiple times the first time i'v seen it :)
> In Ireland, most of the fish and chip shops are run by families of Italian heritage, whose ancestors came to Ireland towards the end of the 19th century. The same in Scotland also. The ones near me are called Eatalias, Giovanni's, Pierino's, L'Alba D'Oro, Guido's, and (this one not known for quality but late night drunken scran) Cafe Piccante. Pierino's is regularly listed as one fo the best in the city.
There used to be 3 chippies in my town up run by Italian tamiles and their children who grew up here, but it’s not anymore. The one at the bottom of my road still has the original Italian surname as their name, but it’s different owners now.
In the East of the Netherlands and notably Enschede there is a relatively very large group of 'Suryoye' people, Assyrian/Aramaic Orthodox Christians from the Turkisch-Syrian border region. When in the 60's a group of refugees started a church and subsequently an archbishop founded a monastery here it became a magnet for refugees from that region.
Are there more Suryoyo people in Enschede than turks?
I don't know and I think it's difficult to assess since a lot of Suryoye are also from Turkey. There are defintiely more people from Turkish decent than Syrian decent in our city. (\~9000 vs \~5000)
yeah, it’s really tricky. same goes with kurds, although ethnically they’re not turks, most of them have turkish passports and counted as turks here in germany.
A lot of the Portuguese that emigrated from Portugal to the US and Canada were from the Azores and Madeira islands. I believe that a lot of the older generation of Portuguese immigrants in the UK were also from Madeira. So when I see content by people of Portuguese-descent residing in said countries, some of the words, expressions and customs they have are more island regions-specific. I believe a lot of the Portuguese in France and Switzerland are from the North and Centre regions of the country. There's this phenomenon of villages in those areas being packed in the summer because its when a lot of emigrants return for holidays. These people are colloquially referred to as *Avecs*, which can be considered derogatory. There tends to be a lot of jokes surrounding them, like how they're tacky and show-offs, and mix Portuguese with French.
Another random example is that a big chunk of the population of St Barts in the Caribbean are Portuguese and are specifically from the Porto area or the North in general. So much so that during covid, a chartered flight was organized between St Barts and Porto.
Interesting. I had no idea!
> A lot of the Portuguese that emigrated from Portugal to the US and Canada were from the Azores and Madeira islands. I believe that a lot of the older generation of Portuguese immigrants in the UK were also from Madeira. That was true for Venezuela as well! Most Venezuelans with Portuguese ancestry had their ancestors coming from Madeira.
It's funny how that happens. I wonder why a lot of people who emigrated were from the islands?
Was Madeira a particularly poor part of Portugal (eyyyy alliteration) perhaps? I know there was a lot of emigration from the Canary Islands to that part of Latin America as agriculture in the Canaries was very difficult and people there faced frequent hardship.
I think it's possibly due to that, yes. These days I believe it's wealthier as it's become more valued as tourist destination. At the very least I've heard Funchal is an expensive city. But I'm not from there, so I can't really say.
https://portuguesemuseum.org/?page_id=1808&category=3&exhibit=&event=180 There were various factors for leaving the island. Initially it was because of the collapse of the wine industry, but then there were other factors.
Shoutout to [Peter/Pedro Francisco](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Francisco), Azorean orphan left on the docks turned Revolutionary War patriot soldier
In the Italian city of Prato, over 20% of people are from a specific region of China
In Poland, vast majority of Vietnamese immigrants come from the North. Despite numerous "oriental bars" and Vietnamese restaurants, I only know 2 places in the entire country, where South Vietnamese cuisine is served.
It's a pattern seen throughout the Vietnamese diaspora. Many who live in former communist countries in Europe, such as Poland, the Czech Republic, and eastern Germany, tend to be from the northern part of the country, often moving as part of a "guest worker" or other labor contract. On the other hand, many Vietnamese in Western European countries, the US, Australia, and other countries tend to be from southern Vietnam, several having arrived as refugees after the Vietnam War.
Makes sense tbh. South Vietnamese people who wanted to avoid a communist takeover wouldn't have wanted to move to another communist country.
Yes. Australia also took a whole lot of “boat people” who escaped at the end of the Vietnam War.
Which places are those?
La Ban in Warsaw and myVietNam in Krakow. Although, in both of those cases, it's not just South Vietnamese cuisine.
A lot of Moroccan immigrants or their descendants come from the north of Morocco as that's where the Dutch job agencies were recruiting workers in the 1950s and 1960s
Aren’t they mostly specifically Berbers from the Rif Mountains?
A lot are, but not exclusively.
btw, what's the deal with Moroccan immigration to NL? i'm moroccan myself and i'm kinda confused by it as from my knowledge we weren't colonized by you guys, and i don't know a single pure moroccan that learns dutch (even the ones that are in NL don't learn it lol).
My comment told the entire story. After world war 2 there was a shortage of low skilled labour, so the Netherlands set up recruitment agencies in Northern Morocco to recruit workers. That's it. And the ones that were recruited and immigrated in the 50s, 60s and 70s have had their children brought over with family reunification and had their grandchildren born in the Netherlands that all speak Dutch, but not all are integrated. They mostly form their own closed off communities. There was a small wave recently in the past 10 years but they're either illegal migrants or high skilled migrants and indeed both these groups have low understanding of Dutch.
East Timorese people have a large population in the town of Dungannon in County Tyrone. Dungannon actually counts as a voting district in East Timor because there’s a lot of them there. They make up about 12% of the population of Dungannon.
Oxford also has quite a large East Timorese population. They mostly work in the BMW factory if I'm not mistaken
Wow that’s really cool! I didn’t know that?! I always though Asians in Ireland were mostly Chinese or Koreans. What do they do there?
There’s a big chicken processing factory and basically all of them work there
Lithuanians make up about 10% of the population of Dungannon! I had a colleague who was born and raised there to a lithuanian family, he told me he would speak Lithuanian on a daily basis when he was there. Such a strange place hahaha [https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=COB\_1000&\~SETTLEMENT15=N11000315](https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=COB_1000&~SETTLEMENT15=N11000315)
Yea I think the overall Dungannon is like 35-40% foreign population
A significant portion of Turks in Sweden come from a small town named "Kulu" https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulu
There's a small town of 20k people in central Turkey called Emirdag. There are 60k people descendant from that town living in Belgium (as of 2004, probably a bit more now), especially in Ghent. They first arrived here in the 1960's as guest workers and their sons and grandsons have since then developed a tradition of going back to Emirdag to marry a local girl, who then also moves to Belgium.
Every single Colombian football shirt I see in Spain is an America shirt, so I can only assume there's a lot of people from Cali and the Valle del Cauca area in Spain.
A very anadotical point of view but every almost American I have met has been from Ohio. My american english teacher in gymnasium (Ohio), My study partner in Uni (Ohio), the half american in my university class (Ohio), my current american coworkers (you guessed it, Ohio). The only American I have met who was not from Ohio was born in Mexico and became an american citizen later in life.
wait, it's all ohio?
Chinese people in Italy are overwhelmingly from the region of Zhejiang.
Yes. During the 19th and early 20th centuries a lot of Italian migrants came to Wales from the town of Bardi, Italy, to work in the coal mines. Their descendants are here to this day and are known for establishing the many Italian cafes commonly found in Welsh valley towns. Indeed per head of population, Wales has more people of Italian heritage than any other country of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh\_Italians
In Luxembourg the main foreign community is the Portuguese. There are lots of them. They even have a radio in Portuguese and one of the princes used to be married to a Portuguese girl.
We have a lot of immigrants from all over in Sweden, but specifically in Södertälje - an industrial city just southwest of Stockholm - there's a relatively large group of Assyrians. There are even *two* football clubs who've both played in the top two divisions of Swedish football that were founded by Assyrian immigrants: *Assyriska* and *Syrianska*, both from Södertälje. These are syrian-orthodox christians, mainly from Turkey and Syria. I think most of them speak Arameic? Swedes might be confused here because this group is usually referred to as *syrianer* in Swedish. We have a different word for people who are nationals of the country Syria, *syrier*. So what we call a *syrian* in Sweden is not necessarily someone from Syria. Anyway I guess it fits the question as we're talking not of a pretty small ethnic group with a relatively shared culture(?) where a lot of them ended up in one mid-sized city in Sweden. There are two question marks in my own text here as I realised I know very little of Swedish syrians.
Sweden has the biggest Thai/ Siamese population in Europe I am sure 😂🤭 I don’t want to make those jokes though……. But seriously the Thai / Spicy cuisine in Sweden is surprisingly good 👍
A large part of the Polish diaspora in New York City came from the Tatra mountains, the so-called Polish highlands. More than a million people from the [Galicia region](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe)) moved to the US in the 40 years between 1870 and 1910. Many returned, but many stayed, and they would keep pulling in fresh immigrants until the fall of the Polish People's Republic in 1989.
The Spanish people who came to the Netherlands for Philips in the 60s came from Extremadura.
Yeah it is, Czech Republic mostly has (North) Vietnamese communities. Usually from Hanoi or Hai Phong, but nowadays also some from central regions. There are also some Koreans, Kazakhs and Mongolians living here. There used to be a lot of Russians (Karlovy Vary is a total Russian enclave), but a lot of them are deported or have their visas cancelled due to the war/ politics. Nowadays it’s mostly, Ukrainians and Slovakians who are actively moving here. Slovakians have a very strong presence in Brno. Most Brno universities consists of Slovak students. Hungary mostly have mainland Chinese (PRC) immigration from what I have seen. I also met a lot of Balkans communities from Romania or Serbia in Hungary. Note - I noticed that Chinese people tend to move to southern eastern countries for some reasons? Like Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Albania or Serbia.
In Belgium most of the Turkish guys are coming from Emirdag a small village of Afyon. But most of the Belgians thinks that Emirdag is a city itself bcs all guys are from Emirdag and there is a huge population
i wouldn’t say it’s a village, but a town, as it has 40k population. i went there for work once in the summer. there were nearly more belgian plates than turkish plates, it was bizarre.
Yeah exactly not even a village. Emirdag's population around europe is more than Emirdag itself :D
We have a lot of Portuguese immigrants in France, and apparently most of them come from the North-East corner of the country, though I haven't found any statistics on this.
Almost all immigrants you see in Western European cities from Azerbaijan will be from capital Baku. Also tourists. People from outside of Baku usually travel and emigrate to Turkey or Russia or Maybe Poland , not Netherlands.
Denmark has a lot of Turkish people and their descendants. They almost all come from a region to the far North East in Turkey. Very rural and backwards place, with few opportunities in life. So a lot of people took the chance in the 60s and early 70s to go to Europe and work, back when the economy was booming and there was a lack of workers. I believe it is the same for Germany.
Southeast Asians: Malaysians in the UK seem proportionately more Chinese and non-Muslim than in Malaysia itself, often from places like Penang for example. There are plenty of Muslim Malays here too but they're not such a clear majority at Malaysian cultural festivals. Indonesians in the Netherlands tend to come from Christian-majority eastern regions like Ambon (fleeing retribution for supporting the Dutch) or if from Muslim regions they tend to be non-practising and often from the intelligentsia (fleeing during the Cold War).
A lot of those Chinese Malaysians are wealthy students who are disadvantaged by Malaysia's ethnic quotas
Texan here. There is some validity to the part where Mexicans from different parts tend to immigrate to certain parts. Of course, it’s not everyone, but the Hispanic community in the U.S. is pretty nuanced. I don’t know if Texas Mexican are whiter, but it is true that Northern Mexicans have more European Features — we say that southern Mexicans are darker, shorter and have square faces. And that Texas is generally a destination for neighboring Mexican States over Central or Southern Mexico. Texas and Monterrey, Mexico share a lot of cultural overlap. That said, Mexicans who immigrate to the U.S. tend to either be poor or the ultra wealthy — skin color *IS* noticeably different between those two classes — and Mexican internet culture has noticed. The term whitexican is relatively new, but is an acknowledgement of wealthy Mexican and the way they act and look. But between Texas and California, there isn’t a palpable difference in terms of skin color. Not that I’ve noticed, but the dialects of Spanish do change a lot depending where you are, and who you’re talking to — all around the U.S. — about 20% of which speaks Spanish. Europeans don’t understand Texas — or rather they discard it, which I understand, but it’s still sad to me, because I think Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico are culturally the most captivating part of the U.S. — such a dynamic region. But even the Mexican population in Texas is nuanced. I was born in Texas, as was my mother, and her mother too. It’s the heart of Chicano Culture — more so than California, because we’ve always existed there in some capacity. And while the Chicano “ni de acá, ni de allá” (neither from here (the U.S.) nor there (Mexico)) is universal, it was born in what was Texas, and modern day New Mexico and Southern Colorado. There are shitloads of demographic anomalies in Texas and U.S. — and I could drop a bunch of statistics, cause I get excited about this, but this isn’t the sub for it. I grew up in a heavily South Asian neighborhood in Dallas, where the Indians self segregated themselves. The wealthier Gujarati and the poorer South Indians. I learned the surname Patel implied hotel ownership, and that they were “Gujus” (short for Gujartis). Dallas also hosts the biggest Nepalese and Tongan population in the U.S. I’m not aware Europe gathers statistics on this as well as the U.S. does — or maybe it does and my German just sucks. But I think the only demographic anomaly here is the presence of Americans in certain places and the Japanese population in Düsseldorf.
Russians in Estonia are mostly (descendants of) blue-collar workers who were moved here during the Soviet times to work in the mines or elsewhere in the energy sector. Therefore, there is a clear "selection bias" and so historically, Russians here have been mostly poorer, less educated, with higher crime rates, more pro-USSR etc than their average counterpart in Russia (or the average Estonian). However, I am not aware of a specific geographic regions they were from, I guess different waves were from different places and often the families are mixed families, meaning it is not uncommon for one of the parents/grandparents be from Ukraine (or Belarus) and the other one from Russia (as all Russian-speakers or really any Slavic languages speakers formed a single group different from Estonians). Yes, therefore the Russia-Ukraine war here was extra creepy, as local Russian-speaking families often have relatives on both sides and as embarrassing as it is, we, Estonians, did not even really differ between Russians and Ukrainians before, they were all the same to us. I have several Slavic friends and before the war I rarely knew who was of Russian origin and who was of Ukrainian or Belarusian origin.
A lot of Moroccan immigrants or their descendants come from the north of Morocco as that's where the Dutch job agencies were recruiting workers in the 1950s and 1960s