What do you guys think of East Asians in europe?

So we have a lot of Japanese and Korean expats who work here for 10-15 years, and their kids go to school etc. I don't think the parents integrate very well.. or at all. But that's not a problem. They have their own parallel societies, work at Korean companies, shop at Korean stores, hang out with other Koreans etc. but they're always friendly, law abiding citizens and usually middle upper class.

And their kids, if they go to German schools, are always the best at everything. I haven't had a Japanese classmate that didn't get As at EVERYTHING, and on top of that played an instrument to a very high level AND excelled at a sport. Oh yeah, and on the weekends, they also go to Japanese school and do the Japanese curriculum in 2 days per week.

Thats Koreans & Japanese in a (western) German city.

In Berlin the Vietnamese have slightly different stereotypes about them. They're hardworking but poor, don't speak a lick of German, only hang around other Viets. Their kids excel at school though and oftentimes "make it". The Vietnamese mafia holds some parts of east berlin. recent immigrants often loiter around train stations and sell counterfit cigarettes. the cigarettes are called "Fidschikippen" (Fiji cigarettes) because the Viets used to be called "Fijis" pejoratively.

Chinese are usually exchange students who only eat Chinese food and only hang out with other Chinese exchange students. That's the stereotype anyway. However, the only Chinese exchange student I've met was actually eager to learn German, meet German students and go to local events.

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