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mexico is not all latin american countries! currently millions more chinese and east asians are migrating to south america for business opportunities. Where there is money they will be !
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Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke
Mexico has a very large population of persons with Chinese heritage, as do most of the Latin American countries. The Chinese needed to emigrate from China and the Latin American countries would let them in. If they could not meet the immigration requirements of the USA or Canada, or if they already had family in one of the other countries, then that is where they went.
wasn't he exiled from peru for his many wrongdoings? yes there is a large community of asians but strangely many i met do not identify with their asian ancestry just as peruvian.
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Originally Posted by lentzr
President Alberto Fujimori (of Japanese descent) was the PRESIDENT OF PERU from 1990 until 2000! His daughter ran for President herself two years ago. So no, it does not surprise me that there is a large Asian community in Peru.
wasn't he exiled from peru for his many wrongdoings? yes there is a large community of asians but strangely many i met do not identify with their asian ancestry just as peruvian.
Yes, he had to flee Peru in 2000, when his right-hand man was video taped bribing a member of Congress! I believe that man was Montesinos, once head of Peru's intelligence agency. He fled to Japan, but now he is back in Peru. He was put on trial for the corruption and dirty war against the insurgency that smeared the economic progress of his rule. I think he is still in prison there.
wasn't he exiled from peru for his many wrongdoings? yes there is a large community of asians but strangely many i met do not identify with their asian ancestry just as peruvian.
Its not that strange. In most countries, what truly matters is culture. In this case, if a person was born in Peru, speaks like a Peruvian, eats like a Peruvian, acts like a Peruvian , thinks like a Peruvian, etc; then he/she is Peruvian and they will identify as such. In most countries there is no need to use hyphens (ie. African-American, Jewish-American, Italian-American).
Its not that strange. In most countries, what truly matters is culture. In this case, if a person was born in Peru, speaks like a Peruvian, eats like a Peruvian, acts like a Peruvian , thinks like a Peruvian, etc; then he/she is Peruvian and they will identify as such. In most countries there is no need to use hyphens (ie. African-American, Jewish-American, Italian-American).
Yes it is true that most Latin Americans do not have an identity crisis about nationality like we in the US do. I lived in for 10 years and the people who got the most home-sick and had a harder time integrating just as visitors,, believe it or not, we the Brazilians of japanese ancestry. They were in a great hurry to finish their studies and go home. The Peruvian Japanese were a little more flexible and felt closer to the Japanese people but that was explained to me by some of them as the result of the Peruvian government acquiescing to FDR and his executive order 9066. The Peruvians sent many of their nisei Japanese to the camps in the US but the Brazilian government steadfastly refused to send any of their Japanese population out of the country or persecute them in any way.
I frequently go to this delicious hole in the wall Peruvian joint that is always filled with Asian looking people speaking spanish. Not sure if they are Chinese descent or not but wouldn't doubt it. At another Peruvian hole in the wall, the owner is a Japanese Peruvian.
Some family members of mine from Ecuador are of partial Chinese ancestry as well.
I frequently go to this delicious hole in the wall Peruvian joint that is always filled with Asian looking people speaking spanish. Not sure if they are Chinese descent or not but wouldn't doubt it. At another Peruvian hole in the wall, the owner is a Japanese Peruvian.
Some family members of mine from Ecuador are of partial Chinese ancestry as well.
Cuban-Chinese food. Waiters speak to you in English, to each other in Chinese and yell orders to the kitchen in Spanish.
But since its been discovered I have ventured here less often. The cuban ropa vieja is not as good as it used to be.
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