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Making Berlin home: How the ‘most- integrated’ immigrants keep their Asian culture alive | by ysa c. | Berlin Beyond Borders | Medium

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Red paper lanterns and blinking neon signs adorn the halls of Berlin’s Dong Xuan Center, a sprawling Vietnamese shopping market in…

Since the arrival of the North and South Vietnamese migrants in Germany in the 1970s — Northerners in former East Germany and Southerners in former West Germany — the two communities have been known as one of the country’s most ‘integrated’ minorities. Vietnamese cultural hubs and a persistent North-South divide in the Vietnamese community complicate this popular perception. 9 min read Jul 28, 2019 -- By Dana Dela Cruz, Aryana Kamelian, Isabell Liu BERLIN — Red paper lanterns and blinking neon signs adorn the halls of Berlin’s Dong Xuan Center, a sprawling Vietnamese shopping market in…

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