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[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

I mean, it's not like there aren't large communities of Asian immigrants all over the world. In most countries, and definitely the English speaking ones, I almost guarantee your country celebrates it somewhere. Beyond all the other problems with this, it erases the experiences of Asian immigrants, I live in the US and I know for a fact there's going to be tons of celebrations here for it organized by people whose cultures it is.

[-] Gabu@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Nearly 2% of all Japanese people live in Brazil, for instance, so yeah.

[-] MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The Chicago area has more people of Polish descent than Poland.

[-] h34d@feddit.de 10 points 8 months ago

According to Wikipedia, the Chicago metropolitan area has a population of about 10 million people, far less than Poland's 38 million, which makes your claim completely impossible from the start. In fact, according to other articles, it seems that there are about 185 000 people of Polish descent living in Chicago (less than half a percent of the population of Poland), and a bit less than 10 million in the entire US (which is significant compared to the population of Poland, but still "only" about a quarter). And this article claims that there are "roughly 20 000 000 people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland" [in total], which is still less than the population of Poland.