Vietnamese migrants are thriving in Poland and the Czech Republic

[Viet]

A notoriously anti-migrant bit of Europe seems to have embraced them

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Apr 27th 2019| WOLKA KOSOWSKA


“The business centre”, a sprawling warehouse in Wolka Kosowska outside Warsaw, has a distinctly East Asian feel. The air is filled with zither music and haggling in Vietnamese. Impromptu bouts of tien len, a card game, are set up on cardboard boxes. A sign warns that “burning incense is prohibited”; another that tea dregs are not to clog the wash basin.

Poland and the Czech Republic, both of which vehemently oppose European efforts to redistribute Syrian refugees, are home to large Asian communities. The first Vietnamese arrived in the 1980s as part of a student exchange between their country and the socialist republics of Eastern Europe. Many settled and brought over relatives. Today there are an estimated 40,000-50,000 of them in Poland, and 60,000-80,000 in the Czech Republic, the highest by proportion in Europe. The Buddhist temples and cultural centres sprouting up suggest that they are here to stay.


https://www.economist.com/europe/20...are-thriving-in-poland-and-the-czech-republic

 

[waz]

A notoriously anti-migrant bit of Europe seems to have embraced them

Print edition | Europe
Apr 27th 2019| WOLKA KOSOWSKA


“The business centre”, a sprawling warehouse in Wolka Kosowska outside Warsaw, has a distinctly East Asian feel. The air is filled with zither music and haggling in Vietnamese. Impromptu bouts of tien len, a card game, are set up on cardboard boxes. A sign warns that “burning incense is prohibited”; another that tea dregs are not to clog the wash basin.

Poland and the Czech Republic, both of which vehemently oppose European efforts to redistribute Syrian refugees, are home to large Asian communities. The first Vietnamese arrived in the 1980s as part of a student exchange between their country and the socialist republics of Eastern Europe. Many settled and brought over relatives. Today there are an estimated 40,000-50,000 of them in Poland, and 60,000-80,000 in the Czech Republic, the highest by proportion in Europe. The Buddhist temples and cultural centres sprouting up suggest that they are here to stay.


https://www.economist.com/europe/20...are-thriving-in-poland-and-the-czech-republic

Very unstable and a powder keg to be honest. Right-wing politics are very powerful there and things can go wrong at any time. I wish them the best but I'd advise them to go elsewhere. Come to the UK, we will love to have you here.

 

[war&peace]

Very unstable and a powder keg to be honest. Right-wing politics are very powerful there and things can go wrong at any time. I wish them the best but I'd advise them to go elsewhere. Come to the UK, we will love to have you here.

Salam Bro, are you still in UAE.. I remember you said you were in Abu Dhabi?

 

[waz]

Salam Bro, are you still in UAE.. I remember you said you were in Abu Dhabi?

Walikum salam, ramadan mubarak.
No bro always here in the UK.

 

[war&peace]

Walikum salam, ramadan mubarak.
No bro always here in the UK.

Then it must be @Khafee Sorry
Ramadan Mubarak to you as well... how is fasting going?

 

[waz]

Then it must be @Khafee Sorry
Ramadan Mubarak to you as well... how is fasting going?

Lol tough, but you guys do more hours in Sweden so I won't complain

 

[Yankee-stani]

A notoriously anti-migrant bit of Europe seems to have embraced them

Print edition | Europe
Apr 27th 2019| WOLKA KOSOWSKA


“The business centre”, a sprawling warehouse in Wolka Kosowska outside Warsaw, has a distinctly East Asian feel. The air is filled with zither music and haggling in Vietnamese. Impromptu bouts of tien len, a card game, are set up on cardboard boxes. A sign warns that “burning incense is prohibited”; another that tea dregs are not to clog the wash basin.

Poland and the Czech Republic, both of which vehemently oppose European efforts to redistribute Syrian refugees, are home to large Asian communities. The first Vietnamese arrived in the 1980s as part of a student exchange between their country and the socialist republics of Eastern Europe. Many settled and brought over relatives. Today there are an estimated 40,000-50,000 of them in Poland, and 60,000-80,000 in the Czech Republic, the highest by proportion in Europe. The Buddhist temples and cultural centres sprouting up suggest that they are here to stay.


https://www.economist.com/europe/20...are-thriving-in-poland-and-the-czech-republic

Whats the big deal this is old the Vietnamese have been in Czechia and Poland since like the 60s,70s and 80s old news

 

[war&peace]

Lol tough, but you guys do more hours in Sweden so I won't complain

That's true

 

[Yankee-stani]

@zectech

 

[Yousafzai_M]

Poles and Czechs are among the most intolerant people and to suggest that Vietnamese there are happy and thriving is utter bollocks. I have seen how Vietnamese live and are treated in Warsaw myself and its the opposite of thriving.

 

[Viet]

Very unstable and a powder keg to be honest. Right-wing politics are very powerful there and things can go wrong at any time. I wish them the best but I'd advise them to go elsewhere. Come to the UK, we will love to have you here.

UK? Certainly it is very nice place but first, it’s no easy to move there (Brexit), second, that will be a life changing event to adapt new environment with new language new culture new jobs.

Extremists exist everywhere. Our strategy is not making noise, not making trouble. in Germany a stat of 2017: about 168,000 with Vietnamese roots live in Germany with half having German passports. However if you ask random Germans, most don’t know that Vietnamese live here since decades. The media often call us “Die Unsichtbaren”, the invisible.



https://www.prenzlauerberg-nachrichten.de/2011/12/09/der-unsichtbare-nachbar-aus-vietnam/

https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/die-unsichtbaren-lieblinge/46135?amp

 

[rott]

Lol tough, but you guys do more hours in Sweden so I won't complain

Off topic post. Let's ban this moderator.

 

[Viva_Viet]

Very unstable and a powder keg to be honest. Right-wing politics are very powerful there and things can go wrong at any time. I wish them the best but I'd advise them to go elsewhere. Come to the UK, we will love to have you here.

Czech have a strong VN community there since Soviet era, even new Nazi group in Eastern europe also cant make big trouble for Vnese.

Its good to live in UK wt peaceful ppl like u guys, but Czech is just like second home for VNese there, so they will try their best to stay in Czech.