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[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Okay this is gonna sound dumb but I'm bad at history. Is the reason there are so many German Asians because of the Axis during WWII?

Edit: Ah, it's because of the Vietnam war. This is mildly embarrassing but it's better than staying ignorant.

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No.

A lot of people with (East) Asian roots in Germany are Vietnamese. West Germany had refugees during the American War in Vietnam and Eastern Germany had people coming over because of the socialist brotherhood thing (cheap workers for unpopular work).

[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 2 points 2 years ago

Oh gotcha. That makes sense.

[–] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I changed it. Old version:

[–] jkozaka@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are?

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only if we actually take all of Asia, then yes, there are a lot of people from West Asia in Germany. But that doesn't has anything to do with WWII and probably not what the user meant.

[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, someone else explained that they were refugees from the Vietnam War. That's what I get for making assumptions.