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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year 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).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh gotcha. That makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I changed it. Old version:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It may just be a coincidence I've experienced and now because I'm thinking about it it's easy to fall inbto confirmation bias.