What's the rarest country you've met someone from in the US?
Posted by EveningFlower9564@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 581 comments
I'm just curious. Personally, I had a classmate in high school from Mongolia.
Individual_Speech_10@reddit
Angola and Wales
mittenciel@reddit
I met a Uyghur dude once. Sure, Chinese national, so that's not rare at all, but it didn't feel at all like meeting a Chinese person.
SimpleObserver1025@reddit
Ironically, in Arlington, VA, Mongolians are maybe one of the largest Asian communities, to the point that Mongolian is one of the five languages they translate local government documents into.
bear__attack@reddit
Leaving near DC feels like a cheat code to this question. Embassy Day alone is a great chance to meet people from all over the world.
SimpleObserver1025@reddit
That is true, but the Mongolian and Ethiopian populations in the DC region are a bit unusual and independent of the embassies. The Ethiopian community in the DC metro is the largest in the US, and the large Mongolian population concentrated in one suburb of Northern Virginia is unique when it's large enough to justify local government signage in Mongolian.
Sh33pD1p@reddit
When I returned from Peace Corps I lived in the DC area. The first day I walked into a new job I had gotten, I realized that the security guard at the front desk was from Niger, where I served, based on his facial scarring. So I greeted him in Hausa and he asked me if I came from the bush - which I did. Tiny Village in Niger.
Carinyosa99@reddit
I've lived in this area for 40 years and I don't think I've ever met a Mongolian. But I'm on the Maryland side.
donutello2000@reddit
This subthread is funny to me because I’ve worked (direct teammates) with someone from Mongolia and Ethiopia, and know someone from Kazakhstan well (kids best friends parent) over here in Seattle, which is as far as you can get from DC while staying in the continental US.
SomethingClever70@reddit
I walked into a shop in Old Town Alexandria, with gorgeous clothing. The owner was from Kazakhstan and I believe she was ethnic Kazakh, as well.
Significant-Cry-9204@reddit
Rather oddly specific with that one, lol. Is there supposed to be any correlation between the "gorgeous clothing" you happened to be wearing when you walked into that shop and the owner's ethnicity?
ExGenWintergreen@reddit
The shop had gorgeous clothing, OP wasn't wearing it...
SomethingClever70@reddit
I believe the fabrics and clothing were imports from Kazakhstan. Nothing odd at all about that.
Broad_Tie9383@reddit
It is. I have been reading these comments being like "oh, yeah, I've met people from there. Rare to me are countries with very low populations and low migration, but I wouldn't be super surprised to meet any of them here.
devilbunny@reddit
The largest Nepali population in the US is in Jackson Heights, Queens. The second-largest is in the Dallas suburb of Irving. You can stand at the corner of Northgate and Belt Line roads and see four Nepali restaurants.
Clusters happen because people moving across the world want to move somewhere that they can have a little link back to their home culture.
PacSan300@reddit
Years ago, when my team at work was working with a major health provider, they had multi language disclaimers for multiple states they had coverage in. The only one Nepali appeared as a language in was for… New Hampshire.
CobandCoffee@reddit
I learned there's also a pretty sizable Nepali community in Columbus Ohio. I make sure to hit up a Nepali restaurant when I visit family there.
Aspen9999@reddit
And I met the first Nepali I met in central Tx
benk4@reddit
I used to work with some people from North Macedonia and thought it was interesting there were a bunch of them in this small town. Then from talking to them I realized one family moved here, then talked their friends into doing it too so they moved to the same spot. Then a few more etc.
The little clusters are neat.
TemperMe@reddit
I live in a small rural area in the south and we have a disproportionately larger Mongolian population for our size.
front_rangers@reddit
What’s the irony there?
No_Foundation7308@reddit
Grew up in the DC area. It wasn’t until I moved away that I realized how incredibly diverse it is. I just thought it was like that everywhere
boodyclap@reddit
Was going to say i grew up with a ton of Mongolian kids in Arlington VA
j4kefr0mstat3farm@reddit
When I get Door Dash there’s like a 1 in 4 chance my dasher will be Mongolian
thegabster2000@reddit
I was born and raised in northern VA. Its wild the amount of i people I met from around the world.
Benchod12077@reddit
Kyrgyzstan
original_greaser_bob@reddit
met a gal that said she was Symbionese... she may have been lying.
BruceTramp85@reddit
Patty Hearst?
AfterAllBeesYears@reddit
Does the Isle of Man count?
Ok_Arachnid1089@reddit
A Brit? They come to the U.S. all the time
Danloeser@reddit
It's a British Crown Dependency, but it isn't part of the UK. It doesn't have a king, it has a Lord of Mann. Who is also the king of the UK, and the king of Canada, and the king of Australia, etc.
Ok_Arachnid1089@reddit
Ah yeah. Nothing British about all that for sure
Danloeser@reddit
If "being part of the geographic British isles" makes it British, then sure, it's British. But Ireland is also part of the geographic British Isles. Good luck with that.
squirrelcat88@reddit
I’m Canadian and this came up on my feed - maybe you could explain it to other Americans by comparing Puerto Rico to the US, sorta?
I know they have a slightly different passport.
Danloeser@reddit
Honestly I can't explain it as well as Wikipedia, but Puerto Rico is still a territory of the United States. The Isle of Man is more like Canada, where it's another country with the same individual as head of state, with Lord of Mann Charles III represented locally by a lieutenant governor. Unlike Canada, the UK does defend the Isle of Man militarily, plus some diplomatic connections like the British Passport: Isle of Man edition. But otherwise it's its own country, like Canada.
hx87@reddit
The closest US equivalents to Isle of Man would be Pacific states in Compact of Free Association with the US. Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia
squirrelcat88@reddit
I definitely thought it counted, I don’t know why people were downvoting you.
Danloeser@reddit
That was going to be mine. I met someone from the Isle of Man in NYC. Once.
LA_Nail_Clippers@reddit
As long as you're not a motorcycle.
Prize_Consequence568@reddit
Rarest?
The-Cursed-Gardener@reddit
I met one lady from South Africa once. She was a coworker at my first job.
ChilindriPizza@reddit
I had a customer at work come from Uzbekistan!
Panicking_in_trench@reddit
There are large diasporas of post-ussr -stan countries in my city! The food rocks :)
sadthrow104@reddit
Curious, what is the main enjoyable entrees in that part of the world? It doesn’t look as colorful as East Asian cuisine
hx87@reddit
Georgian cuisine is just as good as any East Asian cuisine. I'm Chinese American myself, but I have to admit that they do soup dumplings (khinkhali) better than we do, and khachapuri is now my favorite breakfast dish.
tzentzak@reddit
I've only met one Uzbek, he was a security guard where I worked. Cool dude.
OroBlancoMelogold@reddit
We had a whole thing on Kyrgyzstan in a class in college and a guy came and talked
Candid-Math5098@reddit
The North Macedonian guy I knew was awesome.
dbzelectricslash331@reddit
I have a coworker from Uzbekistan and she is lovely
79215185-1feb-44c6@reddit
I've worked with multiple Uzbeks over the past few years and didn't notice that this might actually not be that common.
ChupaMiCulo@reddit
Cabo Verde. Pretty unusual unless you're from Boston or Rhode Island
biancanevenc@reddit
Years ago I was on vacation at the beach in NC and took a phone call from a client living in Tanzania. He wasn't from there, he was there for work, but it still blows my mind that I was sitting on a beach talking to someone in Tanzania.
polardendrites@reddit
Georgia and two from Serbia
DazzleMeAlready@reddit
Mongolia
ArielMankowski@reddit
Java.
scylla@reddit
Bhutan
Odd_Awareness1444@reddit
Eritrea. They were astounded when I guessed it. First I said Ethiopian. When they said no I guessed Eritrea.
JolyonWagg99@reddit
Met a family from Liechtenstein while on vacation in Hawaii. I speak German so I asked them if they were Swiss since the accent is pretty similar. A pretty random encounter!
PacSan300@reddit
That is very cool. I don’t think I have ever knowingly met someone from Liechtenstein in person, despite living in Germany for years now, and visiting both Switzerland and Austria (the two countries it borders) multiple times, and getting pretty close to Liechtenstein a couple of times.
Diy2k4ever@reddit
¡He's blond, he's pissed, he'll see you in the lists!
LIECHTENSTEIN!
LIECHTENSTEIN!
Illustrious-Owl-2755@reddit
Ah yes, that's the country that makes Senegal smile all the time. Literally the weirdest country in the world map-wise.
Heyya14@reddit
Neat
GlassInvestment1013@reddit
Madagascar. Uber driver in NYC.
KingPe0n@reddit
Czechoslovakia. It’s so rare it doesn’t exist anymore.
Sledgehammer925@reddit
Tons of Ethiopians.
pandymen@reddit
Vanatu. Apparently, one of my neighbors does business there and imports some herb thingy for tea and supplements. This person was visiting.
PinCurrent@reddit
My sister did peace corps there. Imagine, needing to help the Vanatu population with clean drinking water when Fiji is right next door. Reminds me of the Flint water crisis with the Great Lakes right there.
Smooth_Beginning_540@reddit
I met a couple from the Faroe Islands, which are a territory of Denmark but closer to the Arctic Circle. I probably cross paths with someone from Denmark every week, but not the Faroe Islands.
This was while vacationing at the Grand Canyon. The couple looked a bit shocked by the heat!
Apprehensive-Owl-78@reddit
I used to work with a guy from Mauritius. He was ethnically Chinese, but spoke French as his first language.
Nerdyraccoon1776@reddit
South Africa
BeckyDaTechie@reddit
Lesotho
Naddyman2005@reddit
I had a college classmate from Laos
BudgetThat2096@reddit
In rural TX one of our teachers in 5th or 6th grade was from Ukraine. We all thought her accent was super cool lol
She came over with her husband in the 90s who worked in one of the factories here
FragrantLetterhead@reddit
Not American, but when I was in college in Canada, I had a professor from Luxembourg.
confan415@reddit
Mauritius - we live in San Francisco
english_mike69@reddit
New Mexico.
/s
Frosty_Employment171@reddit
Tibet. I sat next to a samll group of middle aged Asian men and women on the NY subway, about four or five of them in very lively conversation. I couldn't place the language. It sounded like a mix of Spanish and Chinese. Finally I asked the woman next to me what it was they were speaking. Sha said Tibetan and returned to the conversation wih her peers.
slothdonki@reddit
When I lived in NJ and doing my tattoo apprenticeship there was a Tibetan artist who came in trying to sell his art book. I couldn’t afford it but my boss bought it and I’m so mad I didn’t steal it when I quit. I think it was like $150-200 for this huge ass book with all these awesome paintings and art. We were used to peddlers but I would have bought it if it was printed on napkins and stapled together if I could.
Every few years I try to find anything about it so I could buy it but the I remember thinking the first time I tried to find it or even his name “I’ve never met anyone Tibetan. How hard could it be to find out who this dude is?”
Tl;dr That’s how I found out there was a lot, in NY especially.
greatstonedrake@reddit
Bangladesh or Thailand.
goldentalus70@reddit
Eritrea.
Disc0rdium@reddit
My high school girlfriend cheated on me with a guy from San Marino, so probably that
Carinyosa99@reddit
Vanuatu. I live near Washington DC and you meet people from all over the world there. They were on vacation and I got to chatting with them.
jcvtx1800@reddit
Not really a country exactly, but the Transylvania region of Romania.
amboomernotkaren@reddit
Kazakhstan.
life_experienced@reddit
California has at least one of everything. I've met a few Tibetans, a Ugandan, Uruguayans, and Marshallese (some of whom were from Bikinian families).
TormentDubz_EDM@reddit
I work with a lot of Burmese people
Asleep-itsnew25z0@reddit
Who knows? People here have to work. Immigrants are so numerous in the United States that you can't tell where someone is from unless they talk to you.
gloandi@reddit
Marshall Islands
mynameisstacey@reddit
There’s a big community of Marshallese in Springdale, Arkansas, so many they nicknamed the area The Springdale Atoll. Marshallese citizens are allowed to freely immigrate to the US to live, work, or study, since we fucked up their islands with nuclear weapons testing.
SenorVajay@reddit
Same. Had to schedule a translator for the guy because even the phone translator services didn’t have someone who spoke Marshallese.
Puzzleheaded_Math973@reddit
I have had the same experience.
Puzzleheaded_Math973@reddit
Tons in HI!
Broad_Tie9383@reddit
Also my rarest.
thelaser69@reddit
I went to a soccer game featuring a Zambian player. There was a large contingent of Zambian fans in the crowd. They were super excited to see a player from their home country, and it made for a really fun game atmosphere. Prior to that I had never met a single Zambian, turns out there are quite a few in my area. After the game, the player came by the Zambian supporters (where I happened to be sitting) to sign autographs and take selfies, so I ended up being in several of these pictures. I sometimes think about these pictures being sent to people back in Zambia, and them asking, "Who on earth is that guy?"
Aquarius_K@reddit
I've met people here from the following places: Mexico, Peru, Haiti (although they were mostly unconscious so not sure if that counts) China, India, Denmark, and Germany. Oddly enough I don't think I've ever met a brit.
Current_Poster@reddit
Nepal, I think.
CaptainPunisher@reddit
Burkina Faso.
Tricky_Ad_1870@reddit
I met someone from Andorra. That's probably rare considering its population. I've also met a Sri Lankan and some Burmese people.
StarryEyedSparkle@reddit
I just met someone from Bhutan 🇧🇹 and we were talking about how her country is now seeing real time capitalization of the country while under a constitutional monarchy.
Odd-Tell-5702@reddit
Myanmar
Lcky22@reddit
Maybe Moldova?
wykkedfaery33@reddit
We had an exchange student from Georgia, and I used to work with a Burmese gentleman who grew up there when it was still Burma.
phytomanic@reddit
Faroe Islands
Aromatic_Buddy_9931@reddit
When I went to my oath taking ceremony 3 months ago, a lady from Albania stood out for me because I never met somebody from Albania.
sadthrow104@reddit
I live in the desert southwest and on a commuter bus downtown I saw this girl from Latvia. She apparently works for the city.
No one ever really thinks about the non Scandinavian countries squeezed between Poland and Finland
GSilky@reddit
I had a friend in college from Lithuania, very sensible people.
gladmoon@reddit
Thank you, we are sensible
GSilky@reddit
Latvian, or Lithuanian?
gladmoon@reddit
Lithuanian
GSilky@reddit
👍
bloopblop3002@reddit
There are no Scandinavian countries between Poland and Finland
Aspen9999@reddit
Finland is Scandinavian
bloopblop3002@reddit
No it is not. It’s Nordic. Not Scandinavian
HiAndStuff2112@reddit
I think of them because I was in Leningrad, USSR way back in the '80s, and our train to Warsaw went through what is now Lithuania.
So I'm dying to visit Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as Albania, Romania and the new countries that used to be Yugoslavia. They're all so beautiful!
So is Poland, btw. I've been to 14 other countries, and it's tied for my favorite in terms of beautiful countrysides, with China.
DesertWanderlust@reddit
Latvia is a wonderful country with a really interesting culture and language. I encourage everyone to go when I can.
ApprehensiveBuy9348@reddit
We just returned from a trip to Latvia. We were only there for a five days, but We're already trying to figure out when we can go back to visit.
potlizard@reddit
…and you converted to Latvian Orthodox?
Aggravating_Hat4799@reddit
George Costanza did
violahonker@reddit
Latvians are mostly Lutheran. The orthodox population in Latvia is mainly Russians
Meowmeowmeow31@reddit
Fun fact: There was a ~3 year period where two countries’ heads of state (USA and Latvia) were Delawareans. Latvia’s former PM was born here and spent the first two decades of his life here.
eyetracker@reddit
The President of Lithuania was a Chicagoan (and worked for the EPA) which means they potentially had weapons of mass destruction (Malört).
Estonia had a (non-executive) president from New Jersey.
CFBCoachGuy@reddit
Nigeria’s current president is also a Chicagoan, he spent much of his 20s in the city.
TrasseTheTarrasque@reddit
Meaning there are currently 2 Chicagoans as heads of state if the Vatican counts
sadthrow104@reddit
Interesting why did he leave
onlyreason4u@reddit
Same thing with the second president of Lithuania after the fall of the soviet union. He was born in Lithuania but his family fled to the US in WWII and he was raised here. He was an official in the EPA prior.
At lot of former Soviet states had/have significant footprints in the US during the cold war. They kept the language and culture alive. The US never recognized the soviet occupation so they also ran the official government in exile out of the US as well. When the Soviet Union fell a lot of people moved back to help rebuild the country, they got land stolen from their families returned, etc.
Meowmeowmeow31@reddit
The end of the Soviet occupation of the Baltics. His parents had hoped that they or their children could live there again someday.
sadthrow104@reddit
Interesting.
Now that I think about it, It’s actually interesting how some children of immigrants just soak in everything their family’s cultural sphere surrounds themselves in, and take internalize their native identity while not even being there anymore.
And some wholeheartedly rejected it. Like a Mexican kid becoming fully whitewashed, a Turkish kid in Germany fully embracing Germanic culture, etc. it’s fascinating watching both the extreme examples and the in betweeners (of which I am one….i think?)
Meowmeowmeow31@reddit
Yeah, I think he was a pretty extreme outlier among the children of refugees. Some of my former students’ parents were eager to move back to Syria last year once it became safe, but their (now adult) kids spent more than half their lives here and this feels like home.
sadthrow104@reddit
I used to not understand why people from the extreme parts of the world (Sudan, Syria, places like that) have escaped to the world have ANY worldly desire to return. When I was younger, I had a taxi driver from war torn African express a desire to take a flight home and see his family and I recall being floored at why he’d wanted to return anywhere close to that chaos.
But as I’ve gotten older I’ve come to realize that humans, being the social animals we are, have some things like tribe, familiarity, the first people we are surrounded by engrained into our nervous system. I have a similar experience when I first moved to the USA from China at age 7 and we lived in a half cul de sac suburb in San Jose, California. Ever since then I have felt drawn to various suburban places anywhere I’ve been in the world, no matter how much people attack American suburbia (sometimes rightfully, sometimes just pure nonsense complaining) for being poorly designed and soulless.
So yes, Sudan may have malaria filled huts with no internal plumbing, while say highly developed Switzerland where the refugee escaped too has clean roads and safe drinking water anywhere u go, the child inside still feels the vibration of warmth from the backwoods malaria filled huts he grew up in. And especially they came to the new world as adults, they probably always felt like an outsider (humans take exclusion, even perceived exclusion, very hard).
Just something to think about. Humans are incredibly complex creatures. The older I get, I feel like I understand them much more but also much less.
Status_Set_9594@reddit
I have never even heard of Uzbekistan until I got into the transportation industry. Now I meet so many Uzbek drivers I have learned greetings and sayings to start a conversation.
Brighter_Days_Ahead4@reddit
I used to have an Estonian co-worker. He described himself as the only outgoing Estonian.
Cool human.
sadthrow104@reddit
I have read about Estonia. Apparently it’s a highly developed country with high QOL ratings. I love when nations under former oppressive regimes blossom
Brighter_Days_Ahead4@reddit
Job in a specific scientific field. I also sometimes wondered if his extroverted personality perhaps played a role in his choice to immigrate.
bluecifer7@reddit
I’ve been to all of these Baltic countries and can confirm, Estonians are NOT outgoing lol
LethalBacon@reddit
My barber is a woman from Latvia. Lovely person.
danbob411@reddit
My barber is a dude from Belarus!
IAreAEngineer@reddit
Move it, football head! My kids watched that show.
sadthrow104@reddit
I met some Lithuanians when family and I stayed at an Airbnb in Vancouver a few years ago ❤️
onlyreason4u@reddit
Not really that uncommon. I'm married to a Lithuanian. She wasn't part of it when she moved here, nor is our area a particularly big destination for Lithuanian expats like Chicago is, but we have a local Lithuanian community and Saturday school that our kids go to. Couple hundred people, either born here to Lithuanian parents or grandparents, from Lithuania, or mixed like our family. Most of them are fluent but you'd not know because they have little to no accent,
If you live in a major metro area and know where to look you can find a community, restaurants, etc for pretty much any country in Europe and much of the rest of the world too.
Cobra_McJingleballs@reddit
They are not Scandinavian. They are the Baltic countries.
imatthewhitecastle@reddit
Just for the future, you can say “Baltic states” for short!
Initial_Fill_2655@reddit
USA About 1961 an older teen who road in the same school bus as I did was from Latvia. There were only about 120 in the high school and I was about 11 years old. He was very tall and lanky. Kids were so mean to him I could not believe it. He lived in a home that looked a little like a barn. Now he would probably be recruited for the basketball team. His first name was Ferdinand.
Individual_Glove9415@reddit
Met a Chinese Cuban in nyc. That’s pretty rare.
tracytorr0712@reddit
Madagascar. Seriously!
LlamaFreeze@reddit
I had a classmate in grad school from Madagascar who was here with his family. I gave an open invitation to visit whenever I can get there!
ScarletDarkstar@reddit
I had a professor in college who was from Madagascar. I bet the southwest US was quite an environmental adjustment. Madagascar sounds like a beautiful place.
1nfam0us@reddit
I very briefly met a guy from Eritrea once. Of course, I worked with immigrants and refugees as an English teacher, so I have probably met a lot more people from different countries than the average person.
LlamaFreeze@reddit
A good friend of my daughter came here from Eritrea as a baby.
iAmAmbr@reddit
Bangladesh and Nepal
Yaakovsidney@reddit
Djibouti
GeneralBlumpkin@reddit
My old army unit deployed there a few years ago.
byebybuy@reddit
Whatcha guys do over there?
GeneralBlumpkin@reddit
Not sure I didn't go. But it was more like support role for operations in North Africa and maybe help the locals with missionary type work I believe.
byebybuy@reddit
Ah sorry I misunderstood your meaning. Cool.
steeze_y@reddit
Isis things
Still-Ad377@reddit
Same. I had a classmate from there when I was in high school.
thloki@reddit
🎶 Sheik Djibouti! Shake Sheik! 🎶 https://youtu.be/l3fZuW-aJsg?si=rmmNhh2A6o9Nifxs
Candid-Math5098@reddit
Jinx!
Theobroma1000@reddit
A guy from Bulgaria bought my car. He lived in a small town in northern Arizona.
Honest-Government967@reddit
Senegal.
mac9426@reddit
Malta. Considering there’s only around half a million people there and I’ve met two Maltese, I’ve met a significant number of portion of the population.
Tippacanoe@reddit
I taught an ESL in Westerville, Ohio where all the kids were from Eritrea and it was the best experience of my life. They were all so great.
koolman2@reddit
Maybe this is cheating, but I work customer support for a regional cell carrier. I had a call from a customer who was in Antarctica trying to get Wi-Fi Calling working.
freenow4evr@reddit
Were you in Alaska at the time?
koolman2@reddit
Yes, in Anchorage.
gard3nwitch@reddit
I think that takes the cake right there
Commercial-Lack6279@reddit
Transnistria
Orbiter9@reddit
I guess Togo - although, in the DC area, you kinda run into everyone from everywhere.
malheather@reddit
Nepal.
Big_McLargehuge59@reddit
I’m related to a cardinal (ugh), so I guess the Vatican? Otherwise I’ve met a couple Nauruans.
ImprobabilityCloud@reddit
Palau
chileheadd@reddit
Had a friend from Tuvalu
Donald_J_Duck65@reddit
Colombia 🇨🇴
Muted_Ocelot5857@reddit
North Korea. I volunteered to help resettle refugees back in college.
AshtonCopernicus@reddit
I love local food, but I also like to see what American fast food is like in other countries. I was at a McDonald's in Zurich, Switzerland... and when I put my tray down, my neighbors were sitting one table over.
nowhereman136@reddit
My best friend in high school was from Belize, a country with only half a million people
pomegranate7777@reddit
Burma
OkStudent8414@reddit
When I was in high school, there was a foreign exchange student from Kazakhstan. Other than that I would say Bulgaria
Tight_File2220@reddit
Very nice!
kevykev1967@reddit
Seychelles Islands
TiredNurse111@reddit
A Marshallese family from the Marshall Islands. Very long waits for translation services.
CountChoculasGhost@reddit
I had a classmate who was Maltese. Not sure if they specially were born in Malta, or their parents.
Patient-Ad-7939@reddit
I’d say Kiribati, but I knew multiple from there so that seems less rare then. They weren’t related, just went to a very international college in the Pacific.
Capital-Coconut-9389@reddit
Moldova
Fourty2KnightsofNi@reddit
I used to hang out with a guy from Brunei, while in Korea. Real nice guy.
sharkycharming@reddit
I had a student library assistant from Côte d'Ivoire.
Fourty2KnightsofNi@reddit
I had a teacher from there.
GeneralBlumpkin@reddit
They have a great soccer team
southport_strangeler@reddit
Estonia
WingHuge2185@reddit
Togo
brewerspackers9@reddit
I've never talked to someone from a rare country, but I had multiple college classes with a guy whose parents immigrated from Albania.
Tooch10@reddit
When I was in HS there was an exchange student from Albania
EveningSad6288@reddit
I have a coworker from Ethiopia.
HiAndStuff2112@reddit
Nepal.
nuglasses@reddit
A kid (who spoke English) from Thailand in HS. We were paired up in a new computer class & we opened the course and made it through. 🏆
Traditional_Entry183@reddit
Met is a hard question. But if were talking about acquaintances, I knew a few people from Peru and Nepal in college. In each case, a married couple.
ScarletDarkstar@reddit
I have only known one family from Armenia, so it is the rarest among my personal experience.
shadydelilah@reddit
I went to school with someone from Macedonia
Spirited_Psyche0759@reddit
belarus, moldova, and turkmenistan
Teri-k@reddit
I have a friend from French Guiana.
john510runner@reddit
Iceland
0wlBear916@reddit
I used to have a friend from Guam. He was how I learned that people from there are called “chamorro”. I had no idea. I would have said “Guamese” or something haha
PeridotRai@reddit
A company I hired to help me move sent over a few guys who were originally from Kyrgyzstan. I was very excited because I got to say, “Kyrgyzstan? The capital city is Bishkek, right?” And they loved it. I had memorized all of the world capitals and lived for moments where I met people from a not well-known country and could recall their capital city (and a few other general facts - Central Asia, former SSR, etc).
reichrunner@reddit
I work with someone from Nepal and someone else from Togo. Neither are super low population, but they're both fairly uncommon from my experience.
Also met a Catholic Caridnal once (McElroy). Not sure if he had Vatican citizenship at the time or not, but if he did then that would definitely be the rarest
BroughtBagLunchSmart@reddit
I had a Laotian customer at work once. He was shocked that I knew Laos was a country. Because of King of the Hill I think there are more Americans that know about Laos than there are Laotians.
Empire-Carpet-Man@reddit
We have a large Laotion community Chicagoland area. The city I grew up in took in refugees late 70's. Many good friends born or parents from Laos.
arcteryx17@reddit
Mongolian at a wedding in Mexico
Araxanna@reddit
I’ve only met one New Zealander.
Top_File_8547@reddit
Kosovo
Cache-Cow@reddit
Chuukesse guy from Micronesia?
Mayor_of_BBQ@reddit
Micronesia
herehaveaname2@reddit
Would Bosnia count as being a rare country?
I live in STL, we have many Bosnian immigrants (and restaurants! So delicious!).
Cache-Cow@reddit
Kiribati?
Nemoudeis@reddit
I used to know a girl from Albania.
I also met a woman from Estonia a few years ago, and my mom has been good friends with a Latvian woman for many years. Dating back to when it was a Soviet 'Republic', in fact.
Also, do Indian nations count? I've met lots of people from different bands of Ojibwe and Dakota/Lakota over the years, and I was once pulled over by a Navajo cop for speeding.
Otherwise-Soft-6712@reddit
Tadjikistan
Lord_Woodbine_Jnr@reddit
At a friend's party in NYC, I once met a person who was native Monégasque, i.e., she was born and raised in Monaco. The current population of Monaco is around 38,000.
Tinkerfan57912@reddit
I had a professor from Senegal. He was great. He was funny. Told us everyday was his birthday. Some people believed it.
Panicking_in_trench@reddit
Palau! I think he is the only pacific islander I know, his parents are military and met in Guam so that's how they eventually ended up on the east coast
world-class-cheese@reddit
I had a classmate from Palau! I live on the west coast though (Washington)
GeneralBlumpkin@reddit
Well now you know 2 people im part Fijian my dad and his family are from there
Impressive_Star_3454@reddit
I work with truck drivers. Kazakh is so popular now I've got them saved as a language on my translation app. I also meet a driver from Greece who came to the US through Europe. Its amazing how many languages people will learn and distance people will travel just to get to the US.
_fenwoods@reddit
Benin
Tag_Cle@reddit
Not a country but worked with a Hmong guy for a couple years who was absolutely hilarious
KJHagen@reddit
I worked with two guys from Sierra Leone. They were surprised that I knew where that is.
Aspen9999@reddit
Nepal.
JonMatrix@reddit
I worked with a guy from Guyana.
rawbface@reddit
Lol my ex wife was Guyanese. She kept pointing out all the other Guyanese people at our university. Apparently they can detect each other.
Prestigious-Comb4280@reddit
I have flown there so I guess I have met people from there.
Suckmyflats@reddit
Equatorial Guinea
TakeAHint567@reddit
Suriname
TheBigMotherFook@reddit
Hands down, the Faroe Islands. Technically not its own country, but rather a territory of Denmark. It still counts though because for all intents and purposes they operate like an independent country and have their own culture.
Bonus points, my wife is an Australian from Brisbane.
nilecrane@reddit
Met a girl from Cyprus when I was living in Seattle a while back. She said it was pretty laid back and safe but monotonous and boring compared to the US.
Berezis@reddit
Tons of folks from Laos in tennessee
RudoifSchmidt@reddit
A pleasure meeting driver for the Raleigh,NC Tibetan Center.
Broad-Cranberry-9050@reddit
Had a friend that was moroccan, never seen another one in my life.
Also met a girl from the netherlands (mainland) again never seen another one ever.
MiniatureGiant18@reddit
Rhodesia… as it no longer exists
Kineth@reddit
Burundi
ElizabitchTaylorQC@reddit
Went to school with a guy from Kosovo and another from Dominica.
Alternative-Yam6780@reddit
Fiji
cool_chrissie@reddit
Worked with a girl from Sint Eustatius. I’m from the carrbbean originally and I’d never even heard of this place.
Equilibrate321@reddit
In a former job, one of the people in accounting was from Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). Nice young lady, worked nearly full time, was going to college at night...
I_Gots_Cupcakes-12@reddit
Myanmar! I met a girl from there in my art history class in college! She had come to the US for school!
caarmygirl@reddit
Georgia (former Soviet Block country)
Smaddid3@reddit
I had a former co-worker from Eritrea. It has a totalitarian government. He had flee illegally to leave. Because of that county's government, he told me that he hadn't see his family since he left.
boodyclap@reddit
Ive met someone from North Korea tho he was a speaker at my collage
Roscoe_Filburn@reddit
Eritrea
cool_chrissie@reddit
There’s an Eritrean lady at our farmers market who sells her hot sauce. It’s super spicy 🥵
edelmav@reddit
had a big family of them in my school district
Heyya14@reddit
No way!!
huazzy@reddit
Tons of them in Atlanta.
AnchoviePopcorn@reddit
You know who Rubi Rose is? Atlanta based rapper and model (?). I grew up with her family.
degobrah@reddit
Decent sized community in Houston
plentypk@reddit
And DMV!
Flimsy-Sector7736@reddit
Yep, my kid went to school in DC with Eritrean refugees
orcas-@reddit
Yes multicultural night at school almost always includes girls in beautiful muslin dresses doing a gorgeous dance (and some parents with delicious trays of food)
thegabster2000@reddit
I had an Eritrean co-worker. She made delicious food.
Candid-Math5098@reddit
I met Eritreans when I lived in Seattle. We're really cool people!
mattisaloser@reddit
I had an Eritrean and Ethiopian coworker for a time. Super nice guys.
Yaakovsidney@reddit
Himbasha is the shit
Positive_Strain8321@reddit
Tons of them in Canada actually
chinchaaa@reddit
Tons of them in the DMV area
AZJHawk@reddit
Me too! He was a cab driver in Vegas.
holytriplem@reddit
I'm surprised they're that rare in the US. Eritrea is the North Korea of Africa and there are tons of Eritrean refugees in Western Europe (especially Germany and Sweden, I think?)
ShelbyDriver@reddit
They're not. This poster just hasn't met any.
Fresh_Salt7087@reddit
Lemme, Togo
QuarterNote44@reddit
I believe I've only met one person from Mozambique. Met her online, went on a date. I enjoyed her company but never saw her again.
kalelopaka@reddit
What do you consider a rare country? Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, China, Japan, UK, Ukraine, Cuba, etc. I’ve met many people from those countries and more.
SabreLee61@reddit
The contractor who renovated our master bathroom was from Togo, one of the poorest nations on earth.
He told me he makes more money in one year in the U.S. than the average Togolese makes in thirty years.
makestuff24-7@reddit
Eritrea
brookish@reddit
Rare countries? There's only one of each so they're all equally rare? If you mean obscure (to an American), I guess ... Latvia, Slovakia, Eritrea, Bhutan, Faroe Islands.
cghipp@reddit
I wouldn't be surprised to meet anyone from anywhere here, but the ones that immediately come to mind are Iceland and Kazakhstan. So not particularly rare but a little unusual.
Prestigious-Talk1112@reddit
I live in a multicultural city in the South. My old boss was North Korean. She escaped the old fashioned way in the middle of the night over the barrier.
I've met people from every where. I once know a janitor at my job from the African country of Burundi which is a tiny very county. She was a single mom with several kids and she was drunk or sleeping 99% of the time while at work so she got fired after a while. Oddly although she couldn't speak English she did speak pretty good Spanish so since my Spanish low level intermediate that's how I would talk with her.
solid-north@reddit
As someone from the UK it's interesting seeing so many people say countries like Eritrea and Lithuanian that have quite substantial populations in most cities here. Although funnily enough I've not met many Pacific Islanders!
Quick_Sherbet5874@reddit
my daughter went to a figure skating summer camp and ballet instructor from izbekistan.
tangledbysnow@reddit
Gabon I think. My aunt was a teacher and was a missionary for a longtime when I was a kid. Her last multi-year stint was in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. The Civil War in the early 90s made the region super unstable and unsafe so she stayed home after that. Anyway because of my interactions through her I met Congolese, what were then people from Zaire but is now Democratic Republic of the Congo and a couple from Gabon among others. I don’t remember where else some of the individuals were from (this was many decades ago) but all from that same general region.
skyking11702@reddit
Andorra
Interesting_Neck609@reddit
Ive met folks from every country except Laos, the DRC, and I spose Palestine.
Weirdest was probably a guy from the Vatican who became a Mormon and was protesting circumcision outside of a Planned Parenthood in Utah.
Also met a girl from Malta who moved to California to grow weed.
Met a guy from North Cyprus who accidentally got an american girl pregnant and was traveling around trying to find her. All he knew was a possibly fake name, Emma and she was from a town called Springfield. I hope he found her, but Im dubious.
Met a lot of Tibetans, at least 800 by now, likely more. Theyre oddly rude. Something about their culture just expects people to be very nice and accommodating, its odd and awkward.
Buddy from North Korea got sent back, pretty sure he got put down for leaving.
Met folks from Kosovo, they acquired a mining claim and were building a cabin in the woods. Needed some help getting their truck out of a canyon.
Id love to meet a Sentinelese, or any other uncontacted folks.
DrKittyKevorkian@reddit
You know what happened to the last guy who met the Sentinelese, right? Are you ok, friend?
Interesting_Neck609@reddit
Death isnt so bad, theres worse things in life than being eaten.
I like people, and animals, the world is pretty neat, I reckon it'd be neat to meet humans who havent seen the modern world.
Mackey_Corp@reddit
I got picked up hitchhiking out in California by a guy from Kazakhstan. He was surprised I knew where it was, he said he usually has to explain to people how it used to part of the USSR and now was its own country. I’m pretty good with geography and I didn’t mention Borat because I wasn’t sure if he would be offended and I was on a mountain road pretty far from town. But yeah he’s the only person I’ve ever met from Kazakhstan, or any of the Central Asia/former Soviet countries.
MattressBBQ@reddit
My sister in law is from San Marino
AnybodySeeMyKeys@reddit
Nepal.
The_Ref17@reddit
Chad, probably.
Next door neighbors were from Chad and Kenya
gravely_serious@reddit
Eritrea. I've only ever known one person from there.
malleoceruleo@reddit
The Gambia. Population 2.42 million, smaller than the metro area I live in. Note the name is The Gambia, not Gambia.
Illustrious-Owl-2755@reddit
Ah yes, that's the country that makes Senegal smile all the time. Literally the weirdest country in the world map-wise.
Forward-Specific5651@reddit
Had a ride share driver from Burkina Faso. He was surprised I was even aware it was a country!
tripinjackal@reddit
I met a girl from Eretria in college. She was surprised I knew it existed. She did not know the country I am originally from (Belarus).
Cyber_Punk_87@reddit
A friend is dating a guy from Senegal, so I met him last summer.
cecil021@reddit
By population, North Macedonia.
Illustrious-Owl-2755@reddit
In NYC, there are a lot of people from the Carribean, in particular from the Lesser Antilles. To be absolutely honest, it's difficult to name specific countries, because I suck at geography. My daughter's daycare teacher was from Saint Lucia, which has population of 200k (so 1/40 of NYC), but I'm sure I met someone from even smaller countries.
TheMuskyHairbrush@reddit
Greenland! I was a student ambassador for a summer with the local college, there were 20 students. One was also from North Macedonia!
Swimming_Nose4713@reddit
Lesotho. He was a study abroad student like me in England.
deathmetalelitistist@reddit
We have what I think is a decently large immigrant population here in NC. I'm don't know how large it is compared to other states, though.
I've met 1 person from Ghana, 1 from Yugoslavia, and 1 from Kenya. There was another person I met who was from Africa and I believe she said she was from Kenya, but I don't recall. I also met an older woman who was born in Italian Libya.
dachjaw@reddit
Southern Rhodesia.
Her: I don’t know why they had to change the name to something nobody can pronounce.
Me: Ninety percent of the country can pronounce it just fine.
Her: You know what I mean.
DrKittyKevorkian@reddit
Rhodies gotta Rhodie. I've met some lovely white Zimbabweans, but never outside of Zimbabwe.
Enough-Secretary-996@reddit
I don't meet people from other countries very often, but ive only met 1 French person and multiple people from all the other countries I've met people from.
gadget850@reddit
In 1978, I attended an Army school with Iranian soldiers.
BC999R@reddit
A tradesman working on my house was from the Northern Mariana Islands, which are part of the US. I knew nothing about them, except vaguely recognizing the name from WWII history. He came here right after high school and said there was a sizable local community in our area.
Few_Percentage_1111@reddit
I have only met one Albanian, I think. She was awesome and funny.
Important_Canary6766@reddit
Republic of Georgia
New-Process-52@reddit
Rarw
Turdulator@reddit
I met someone from Luxembourg in college
current-seven@reddit
Not rare for Stockton but we got a decent amount of Hmongs here. They originate from south China which isn't a rare country but the Hmong people, many never heard of them.
world-class-cheese@reddit
I live in eastern Washington and was friends with someone, from elementary through high school, who was from Palau
He and his older brother were really well liked by pretty much everyone at school, they were just genuinely really cool people
WhichWitch9402@reddit
I’m in middle of nowhere IL and met someone from Malawi. Another one I found interesting was a guy from Lichtenstein.
galaxystarsmoon@reddit
Azerbaijan. My husband worked with his Russian wife.
Stupid_Snowmeiser@reddit
A girl in one of the campus organizations I’m in has parents from Lithuania. She was stoked that I knew that it existed.
For perspective, I have a bit of ancestry from there and like a true American, I went on a deep dive to learn everything I could about the country. It’s now on my bucket list for places to visit before I inevitably kick the bucket.
Leody@reddit
I've met people from
Butan, Sudan, Camaroon, DRC, Gabon, Bulgaria, Romania, Zambia, Laos, Guam, Ghana, Morocco, Serbia, Inda, Croatia.
Oddly enough, I seem to meet people from parts other than Europe more often than not.
Kittypie75@reddit
Bhutan. He was really impressed that my dad had just gotten back from there!
chicoman2018@reddit
At my catering gig, I met the First Lady of Papau New Guinea. ( 2014-ish). If you gave me 100 years, I would not be able to name her.
Only_Presentation758@reddit
A guy at my shared table at a comedy club said he was half Icelandic and half NORTH Korean … I wanted to know more but then the show started
I8already@reddit
Maybe North Sentinel Island would probably be pretty rare
Serious-Mongoose-387@reddit
one of my friends was dating a mongolian girl, who i met.
an uzbek guy came to work on my house.
had cambodian and fijian teammates in sports.
met a palestinian girl in college. from palestine, not israel, she made sure i understood.
i dunno which of those is more rare.
Illustrious_Code_347@reddit
I had a neighbor from St. Kitts & Nevis. I also went to a school with a Nepali immigrant. And then another school I went to with another guy from Uzbekistan. My state also has a sizable Cape Verdean population so I have met a bunch of them. Those are probably the "rarest," but there are so many immigrants in America, no country would surprise me if I met someone from there.
pizzaerry2days@reddit
We have a ton of people from Chuuk where I live. An island group in Micronesia and a fairly small language group. We have thousands of them in the area.
No_Consideration_339@reddit
I've met a Kazak, Luxemburger, Namibian and Botswanan. I think those are the rarest I've personally met.
pa79@reddit
I've also met Luxembourgers randomly in New York City. Mind you, I'm a Luxembourger too. I've met some (randomly) in Montreal and Osaka. We're everywhere!
HalusN8er@reddit
I worked with a guy from Timbuktu.
PeaksCreeks_Outdoors@reddit
The island of Malta
alcurtis727@reddit
I bartended with a guy from Monte Negro. 3 hours later, I completed my rabbit hole of learning about all the baltic and eastern slavic countries in the area.
DragonScrivner@reddit
I once worked a summer job with a guy from Lichtenstein—he’s the only person I’ve ever met from that country
verminiusrex@reddit
Had neighbors from Palau. Had to look that one up.
JudgeWhoOverrules@reddit
My barber is from Kazakhstan.
Jhooper20@reddit
Wouldn't be surprised if some slipped by due to me not knowing where they're from at all, but of the ones I was actually aware of, there were a couple of Danish guys and a Swedish chick I spoke with a little at a corporate event I worked the catering for.
spring13@reddit
Kosovo maybe
True_Coast1062@reddit
North Korea
Judasbot@reddit
Just recently met a liquor store owner in Lexington Kentucky who's from Nepal. I've met people from all over the world, but never Nepal. I used to work with a guy 20 years ago that was from Sri lanka. Still have never met another person from there.
crimson_leopard@reddit
Burma
ArkansasTravelier@reddit
Not technically a rare country since they don’t have their own country, but maybe in the grand scheme of things a “rare” ethnic group, I went to school with a dozen or so Hmong kids in rural Arkansas, when I’ve mentioned Hmong people to people I didn’t grow up with most people have never heard of them
gard3nwitch@reddit
IIRC, they sided with the US during the Vietnam war, so a bunch of them got resettled in various US towns as refugees.
ArkansasTravelier@reddit
That’s exactly right, Arkansas, Minnesota, and Sacramento California from what I know.
patientrose@reddit
There's also a Hmung community in Humboldt, California.
ArkansasTravelier@reddit
Here in Arkansas they all live way out in the country and raise chickens and sell them to slaughter houses, a few do other jobs but I think the majority of the families do exactly that, they definitely act like any other Arkansan just with a different accent lol, they hunt, fish, and drink beer with the best of us.
Aggravating_Hat4799@reddit
Born and raised in Queens, NY . The most diverse borough in the entire world. I’ve met people from everywhere
sean8877@reddit
Pakistan
ElectricMayhem06@reddit
When I was in high school in the mid to late 90s, I was friends with an exchange student from Croatia and a refugee from Serbia. Being that we were all teenagers, they got along surprisingly well but they ran in separate friend groups.
Maybe not the rarest, but certainly an interesting dynamic. Especially at the time.
YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO@reddit
I had a classmate who was an exchange student from Brazil. And in my little podunk town, that might as well have been mars.
jlt6666@reddit
I've been able to work with a ton of different people. Costa Rica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australian, German, British, Spanish, Vietnamese, Singaporean, South African, Bulgarian, Saudi Arabian, Israeli, a French woman who lived on the islands east of africa (can't remember which one), dutch, Japanese, Ukrainian polish.
CouldBeBetterForever@reddit
I had a college professor from Malta. I still haven't meet another person from Malta, which isn't too surprising since the population is only about 500,000.
Traditional-Photo227@reddit
At a piano camp, hmm, probably 12 years ago now, with someone from Indonesia.
Ana_Na_Moose@reddit
I carded a dude with a passport that was from either Palau or Kiribati before, while working at a gas station in rural Pennsylvania. (I remember it was one of the Pacific island countries in free association with the US whose name was fun to say).
If I had to pick one, I think it was Kiribati 🇰🇮
Pinwurm@reddit
My friend's cousin was born in North Korea. They were part of a group that escaped to South Korea during the famine (she was a toddler at the time) - and quickly adopted by white American parents. She's super American, went to school here, no accent, etc.
Also, I guess I'm increasingly rarer. I was born in BSSR.
jlt6666@reddit
What is the B?
Pinwurm@reddit
Belarusian
Heyya14@reddit
Oml that’s cool
degobrah@reddit
I had a boss who was born in the Kazakh SSR
FormerPrize2485@reddit
I met a Tazzie at a random dive bar in Milwaukee
Upset_Shock_8137@reddit
Laos
violahonker@reddit
Abkhazia, which I guess isn’t really a country, but it’s a breakaway region from Georgia and functionally a satellite puppet regime run by Russia.
CheeseMongoNJ@reddit
Growing up one of my best friends was from Latvia.
Roam1985@reddit
If outside of Queens: Guyana.
If inside of Queens: Probably Andorra.
(Queens has a decently high Guyanese community.)
1NqL6HWVUjA@reddit
Probably Guyana (a co-worker).
BFFassbender@reddit
I once worked with a girl from Georgia (obviously, not the state).
smokiechick@reddit
I work at a tiny state college in Northern New England. We used to cap enrollment at 2,000 students on my campus. TINY. I had a student from Tibet. I think I know how he wound up here, but it still feels very... rare.
Gold-Vanilla5591@reddit
Not a rare country but we had a family move to the US from Switzerland. They were from Lucerne and spoke German.
My dad has a coworker from Azerbaijan and knew how to speak Russian.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Fiji
GeneralBlumpkin@reddit
My dad is from there
Candid-Math5098@reddit
The Fijian I met was Indian rather than Polynesian.
jlt6666@reddit
Same
GeneralBlumpkin@reddit
I'm Indian/fijian too !
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
I think the dude I knew was as well. Actually Arabic sounding name, so maybe not India
edelmav@reddit
went to college with a girl from Bhutan! she couldn't believe i knew her country and was super happy to answer all of my questions about their royal family
board_boarder@reddit
Azerbaijan
ZeroQuick@reddit
Mongolia also. They had an appointment at the office where I work.
axiom60@reddit
The other day I had an uber driver from Sierra Leone
LadySilvie@reddit
I could name the number of countries I've met anyone from on both hands.
Living in the rural midwest, it feels like all immigrants are a lot rarer here than in the bigger cities. I'd imagine that the smaller countries in the world have fewer immigrants/would be harder to find throughout the US.
sophus00@reddit
We had an exchange student from the Faroe Islands. Also some guys from Chile and Portugal.
rubyreadit@reddit
I don't know which of these has the smallest number of folks living here or visiting here but I'll throw out Iceland (here as a grad student), Bosnia (similar), and Zambia (a nurse in Houston). Also we used to have a neighbor from Malta and another neighbor from the Azores which I know isn't its own country but probably doesn't have a ton of people living in the US. Or maybe I'm wrong about that. And I live in a city that has a large Tongan community so they aren't at all rare in my area but I think most of the Tongans living in the continental US are in my county.
TinyRandomLady@reddit
The Federated States of Micronesia, specially the island of Truk. According to wiki Micronesia has nearly 76k people, Truk has 36k residents. The guy went to college in Oklahoma of all places.
GreedocityOnSmite@reddit
I knew a Luxembourgi Luxemburger Luxem
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Luxnebourgy L
Taiwandiyiming@reddit
San Marino. I worked at the international department for a university. Our paperwork said that the student was from Italy. When she arrived in the US, she handed us a San Marino passport
GoPadge@reddit
I've met people from Sri Lanka and Yemen.
Amockdfw89@reddit
Not really rare but there is a historic town in Texas called Spring.
Small town full of gift shops and restaurants. Kind of a Main Street kind of vibe. There is a concentration of shops that I call UN street because it is gift shops that all cater to certain country mad artisanal gifts, clothing or food from that country
They have a unique shop each for Germany, Netherlands, UK, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Nepal, and a fusion Czech/Mexican Store
CommercialWorried319@reddit
Gilbrator
Longjumping_Event_59@reddit
I had a coworker who was Vietnamese, and I another one who’s Laotian.
wbishopfbi@reddit
Eritrea
lufan132@reddit
Laos, unless we count Palestine. Maybe Cambodia. But somewhere in Asia or the middle east I'd say, compared to European/Russian tourists.
Norwester77@reddit
I have a coworker from St. Vincent and the Grenadines
SLCamper@reddit
I met some people from Mongolia for the first time last year.
HighFiveKoala@reddit
In community college I sat next to someone who was from Yemen. There was also someone from Zimbabwe who was white. In university I had a Danish classmate who used to live in Greenland.
cometssaywhoosh@reddit
I knew a guy from Eritrea in college, very interesting dude.
supaguy10@reddit
I used to date a girl from Turkmenistan which is a notoriously brutal dictatorship and I'm shocked she and her family were even able to leave the country (for context, their dictatorship is near North Korea level)
Coldhearted010@reddit
I think I knew a fellow, in high school, from Iran.
purritowraptor@reddit
Paraguay
Aclearly_obscure1@reddit
Seychelles
invinciblewalnut@reddit
My English teacher is elementary school teacher as from Moldova, oddly enough
orangera2n@reddit
kazakhstab
Heyya14@reddit
Some off the top of my head include Italy, Nigeria, South Korea, Germany, Kenya, Japan, Colombia, China, and finally Romania
LemonTeaCool@reddit
I've met a Nepali driver the other day in NYC! Pretty nice guy.
Aggravating-Key-8867@reddit
I went to college with six people from Nepal.
Also, I'm not sure what's rare or not. I know people in the US from some of these countries: Bangladesh, Jordan, Romania, Serbia, Dominica, Tanzania, and Liberia.
h8movies@reddit
Cape Verde?
Cowboywizard12@reddit
I had a teacher from Moldova which is the poorest country in all of Europe like even poorer than Albania at its worst
In our history class she came in to talk about growing up first in a communist dictatorship then a post soviet state.
One sentiment I got from her talk is, Don't go to fucking Moldova
Quix66@reddit
Nepal. Taught ESL to two sibling students from there. . Or the student from Afghanistan.
thegabster2000@reddit
Libya, Paraguay, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Burma, Cape Verde, North Korea.
Puzzleheaded_Math973@reddit
My cousins are from Paraguay!
Puzzleheaded_Math973@reddit
A lady from Bhutan!
Emergency_Coyote_662@reddit
Chuuk, Micronesia
GPFlag_Guy1@reddit
I don't know if this exactly counts, but I had a friend in college who was from the British territory of Gibraltar so that was pretty interesting. He had a Spanish name and had a British accent, I liked hanging out with him.
holiestcannoly@reddit
Burma / Myanmar
TheyMakeMeWearPants@reddit
Met a guy from Bhutan once, it's probably between him and the guy from Botswana for me.
gtrocks555@reddit
Probably Montenegro.
Disastrous-Ruin8411@reddit
My college friend was from Moldova. I used to play NHL on PS3 with Ablanians. My teacher's assistant was from Jordan. My Spanish teacher was from Ghana, and he was a polyglot.
ComparisonOk8602@reddit
Every extant county is equally rare.
quitealargeorangecat@reddit
That’s not true at all. Some countries have bigger populations, some countries are wealthier, some countries speak languages other than English. There’s a lot of reasons why certain nationalities are more prevalent in the US.
ComparisonOk8602@reddit
The question doesn't ask what nationalities are rare. It asks what countries are rare.
There is exactly one of every extant country, thus, they are all equally rare.
Remarkable_Table_279@reddit
Persia…that’s what he said “my family is from Persia”. Maybe he didn’t want to say Iran cause he didn’t want to get side-eyed or maybe his family left for a reason. Super nice guy
Oldy_VonMoldy@reddit
I work for the DMV in the mid Atlantic, that’s like cheating. Damn near every country on Earrh
quitealargeorangecat@reddit
For me it’s being a server in New York. A few months ago, I met someone from the Pitcairn Islands. There’s only like 50 people there!
NaturalThen@reddit
One of my son’s best friends is from Kazakhstan…we are in SW Pa
NaturalThen@reddit
Also worked with a woman from Madagascar
CG20370417@reddit
Probably Vatican City?
Im not sure though, I mean very few people are from Vatican City, namely the Pope, but when they come to the US so many meet them.
It'd have to be something obscure like Andorra or Lichtenstein.
So, has anyone ever met someone from Andorra in the US?
kanhaaaaaaaaaaaa@reddit
I had an Uzbeki student, he's fun.
servantofdumbcat@reddit
My RA freshman year of college was from Kazakhstan
LongOrganization7838@reddit
Might be cheating a bit because I grew up mormon and did the whole mission thing and part of training leading up to it is you spend a couple weeks to a couple months in the Missionary Training Center, they have a couple around the world but the biggest and main one is in provo, in there I've met people from literally everywhere, Indonesia,Cameroon,Eritrea, Jeddah,Kyrgyzstan
UncleOdious@reddit
Brigadoon.
rbrancher2@reddit
Mongolia
cytok1nd@reddit
Most singular for me was when I met someone from Mongolia, that’s not one we encounter very often.
AdEastern9303@reddit
Some kids I went to high school with had a father that was from Malta. Only Maltese person I’ve ever met.
Quiet_Cat5270@reddit
I worked in a school on a military base that hosted a high-level officer and his family from Kosovo. I never met the parents, but the kid was super cool and would occasionally bring in Kosovar food to share with teachers and his classmates. The other one-off from that experience was Honduras, but I don't think that's rare elsewhere in the country. We mostly talked about soccer, and he told me a lot about sporting history in Honduras. I didn't get to try his food, but I did eat some on vacation in Miami, and it was very hearty and tasty.
GoDenBroncos5280@reddit
I met one of my Great Grandfather's friends who was 101 years old when I was very young...he was from the Emirate of Sineussi (sp?). Today I think is Libya(ish).
Archercrash@reddit
Used to have a friend from Malawi.
clunkclunk@reddit
At my first job out of high school, one of our clients was from the island of Yap in Micronesia, population 11,000. He grew up there, as his parents were missionaries.
Yap is known for their giant stone money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
ChemMJW@reddit
Namibia.
I speak German, so it was fun to speak to someone whose native language is Afrikaans to see how much I could understand.
worrymon@reddit
When I was learning Dutch, one of my friends was an Afrikaaner. It was almost like listening to a Shakespearean actor orating.
HorseFeathersFur@reddit
I just met a brother and sister from Nepal a few months ago. That was really cool.
Oreo_Cow@reddit
Stunningly beautiful waitress (and student at San Jose State) with an unusual accent at our local Italian restaurant gave us 10 chances to guess her home country.
We failed. As had every other customer who had tried.
Nepal.
Electrical-Ad1288@reddit
Kiribati
I had a TA in college from there.
LA_Nail_Clippers@reddit
I grew up near a large university with some specialized research programs so it wasn't atypical to meet people from all over the world.
The unique one I remember was a woman who had a super thick Russian accent on the phone but when I met her in person she was a tiny Chinese grandma. Apparently in the far east of Russia there are a few cities which are more ethnically Chinese than European.
I also had two kids in my high school class - one from the Dominican Republic and the other from Dominica and don't you dare mix them up.
One of my neighbors was born on a plane! But it was a domestic flight so no unique country situation but he does like to say he's Boeing-American.
Hrbiie@reddit
In high school I had a classmate who was an exchange student from Tanzania. We all confused Tanzania with Tasmania quite often.
scandicsiren@reddit
I worked with a girl from Estonia once and I'd never given the country much thought. Now, it's on my list of places to go.
Major_Enthusiasm1099@reddit
Belarus
jade420420@reddit
Depends what you mean by rare, population? Or who knows it? I'd say Finland or Sri Lanka for friends, for randos or people I don't know great I have no clue. Everyone is in NYC.
MoriKitsune@reddit
Not technically it's own country as it's under French rule, but my first French teacher is from La Martinique, and he's the only Martiniqais I've ever met
degobrah@reddit
I'm in Houston and I used to teach refugees English. The most obscure country a student was from, for me anyway, was Central African Republic. I once also had a Uyghur student.
JimBones31@reddit
I had a crush on a girl in elementary school from Lithuania.
ShinjukuAce@reddit
Guyana, Luxembourg, Andorra, Dominica.
DBL_NDRSCR@reddit
are armenians rare outside of la?
Candid-Math5098@reddit
Large community in Boston area
BrilliantPie2566@reddit
At my high school in Mass. we had a guy from Morocco. His dad was black and his mom was French; he called himself 'cafe au lait.'
AvailableAd6071@reddit
Is Ghana rare? I've had 2 friends from there.
Candid-Math5098@reddit
I'd say so, yes
PeorgieT75@reddit
Our neighbors are from Nepal, I had a young guy working for me who was from Uzbekistan.
Prestigious-Comb4280@reddit
Canada. Just kidding. I had a cab driver from Ethiopia once.
macoafi@reddit
There’s like 2 Ethiopian restaurants per block here in the DC area.
Candid-Math5098@reddit
See also: Seattle
gard3nwitch@reddit
Yeah, plus every garage attendant in the DC area is from there
Prestigious-Comb4280@reddit
I have a doctor from Croatia
Dull_War8714@reddit
Bosnia
mindcontrol93@reddit
I worked with a guy from Malta. He is an attorney.
Savings-Complex-2192@reddit
Togo and St. Kitts.
RemotePossibility399@reddit
A cool dude named Ali who I met in college was from Sri Lanka.
gard3nwitch@reddit
I've met a few people from Sri Lanka, and I guess because of their colonial history, they were all called something like "Maria Fernandez" despite being South Asian.
jillyc03@reddit
Liechtenstein
bigcheez69420@reddit
Hmm off the top of my head Myanmar, Eritrea, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Marshall Islands? Also Mien. They are from China, but an ethnic minority and from what I’ve read there are about 30,000 in the US. I’ve met two.
OceanPoet87@reddit
Met a tourist who was from Georgia, the country when working at a restaurant in a beach town. Meeting people from Central Asia is rare, though I have met several Armenians being fron California.
wantonseedstitch@reddit
Countries from which I have only met one person in my 40+ years on this planet:
Uzbekistan (sublet my apartment after a roommate moved out, the summer after I finished grad school)
Mali (student who came to my high school my junior year)
Republic of the Congo (friend in college)
Sudan (one of my son's doctors)
There are plenty of countries from which I've never personally met anyone, and plenty of others from which I've met a number of people, but those are the ones with only one person each that I can think of off the top of my head.
Broad_Tie9383@reddit
Something like 15% of my kid's school is from Sudan. I guess they settled a bunch of refugees around here. All our school communications are translated into Arabic.
wantonseedstitch@reddit
Our city has a huge Asian population, mostly Chinese and Vietnamese--about 30% of the total population. Not as many folks from Africa.
throwfar9@reddit
Tibet.
audvisial@reddit
I'm in the midwest, so we don't get a lot of visitors from outside the U.S.
I run a medical fellowship, though, and a lot of my fellows come from the Middle East, India, China, and Canada. Outside of them, I don't really meet a lot of foreigners here.
Candid-Math5098@reddit
I'm going to say Djibouti, with Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Sierre Leone and Fiji as runners-up.
GeneralBlumpkin@reddit
My buddy from the army was from Burkina Faso. Nicest dude I've ever met
Candid-Math5098@reddit
Met a Burkina Faso guy as a fellow hotel guest in Washington. Was shocked I knew they host an annual film festival.
Particular_Bet_5466@reddit
Singapore probably. Might not be super rare but he was a classmate of mine in college. I actually took him to a party, since he did drink, but he ended up finding some kids smoking a bong thinking it was tobacco in another room and they let him rip it… I was kind of pissed at the dude for letting him do that. In Singapore, weed is extremely illegal. I remember I walked in on him blowing a cloud and was just thinking bruh….. he told me after it was so strong, but I didn’t want to blow his high so I didn’t tell him what it was till the next day. He was a bit freaked out since they have killed people over weed in Singapore.
No_Cricket808@reddit
Ethiopia, Egypt
sundial11sxm@reddit
Mauritius
river-running@reddit
Madagascar
RikkiLostMyNumber@reddit
Burkina Faso
InfidelZombie@reddit
I've met a few people in the PNW from some obscure Pacific Island nations like Micronesia and Vanuatu.
Free-Sherbet2206@reddit
I work with someone from Burkina Faso. I’ve also met a lot of people from Nigeria since I moved to Houston. I never knew anyone from anywhere in Africa before I moved here.
Logical-Recognition3@reddit
Burkina Faso
Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir@reddit
Nobody has said Bhutan, so I'll throw that one out there.
Ernigirl@reddit
Croatia
LiquidDreamtime@reddit
Lithuania probably? Maybe Estonia?
dopefiendeddie@reddit
My parents were friends with a couple from San Marino.
silliestboots@reddit
There's a man who works at the same place I do who is from Senegal. That's the furthest flung I can think of. He speaks English but he blatantly ignores the break room sign saying not to play music or watch videos without earphones. The videos he plays at full volume seem to be in some form of French.
Elle3786@reddit
A nurse from Morocco. My ex was in for pelvic surgery, so we saw him regularly for about 2 weeks. He started with the challenge to guess where he was from and that he wouldn’t tell us until my ex was checking out. He said we’d never guess, we got no hints and as many guesses as we wanted. This was pre smart phone!
We didn’t guess, but he did tell us on the last day there! He was also an amazing nurse. Always seemed to be in a good mood, never bothered by requests, never seemed too busy for a question or a joke, even though he was clearly working hard all day long. I hope he’s well out in the world.
AwesomeOrca@reddit
I know like 10 Kosovars in Chicago for some reason and two people from Grenada originally which I think only has like 200k people total so that has to be pretty rare.
SkiingAway@reddit
Iceland, and a few from some of the smaller Carribbean islands.
Cheedanish@reddit
There’s a guy from Nepal that goes to my church. He’s cool. Met his wife while she was there in the Peace Corps
coffeegrindz@reddit
Nepal
marc4128@reddit
If you live in a major metropolitan market i.e. NYC, DC, LA etc. There probably isn’t a person from some country that you have not crossed paths with. You know what I mean. I live in the DMV my sons buddy is Palestinian. My neighbors are Bosnian.
Bobcat2013@reddit
Was in Nashville a month ago. Met a girl from Belarus. She was shocked that I was aware of the country's existence.
UntidyVenus@reddit
I have a customer who comes and buys my art from the Congo. He's the nicest guy in the world, and the first person I've ever met from the Congo specifically
littleredbee93@reddit
Had a neighbor from the Marshall Islands
Wide_Breadfruit_2217@reddit
Bhutan. Don't know if normal back home but he was at least 6ft and solid build. Different than most asians I've met.
IamGleemonex@reddit
One of my first jobs as an adult in a real professional office job, one of my coworkers was from Aruba. He still remains the only person I have ever met or even heard of from Aruba.
dbzelectricslash331@reddit
The guy I lost my virginity to was from there 😆
Fangsong_37@reddit
At my last job, I worked and talked regularly with a guy from Malaysia.
MattieShoes@reddit
Mongolia
kobayashi_maru_fail@reddit
By population, Micronesia.
akunis@reddit
My partner and I made friends with someone from Rwanda. His father’s first wife was killed in the genocide. His Dad was shot in the leg.
MoodiestMoody@reddit
I knew a family from the Marshall Islands.
Coconut-bird@reddit
One of our student workers was from Pago Pago, I think that was the country I've known the least about.
roxanakin@reddit
Burundi
mikegalos@reddit
The Gambia.
--Miranda--@reddit
I have clients from the island of Yap. Lovely people!
Flimsy-Sector7736@reddit
I went to graduate school (UMD) with someone from Bhutan
koreamax@reddit
Bhutan
Vyckerz@reddit
🇲🇩Moldova
I don’t even think it’s probably that rare a country, but I have never met somebody from there until I went out with a coworker who I thought was Russian.
We had lunch together and he was telling me how he was born and grew up in Moldova, and to be honest I wasn’t really that aware of the country.
I know Americans have a bad reputation for geography and knowing countries and things, but I think a lot of that is overblown. where I grew up, we learned world geography and world history, and I know most countries of the world, etc. but for whatever reason, Moldova just never stuck out to me
So when he told me he was born there, I ended up looking up the country and reading up a bit
fakehighschoolgf@reddit
Mauritius
koreamax@reddit
Ive always wanted to try that cuisine
Sufficient_Career713@reddit
I have met two people from Mauritius (totally separate from one another)
ExtremePotatoFanatic@reddit
I used to work with a guy from Azerbaijan. I’ve never met anyone else before or after him.
Llyrithra@reddit
Back in high school we had a Korean foreign exchange student who was born in North Korea and her parents escaped with her when she was 3.
Select-Current-4528@reddit
When I went back to college 15 years ago there was a dude in one of my classes from the Ivory Coast. He was surprised I knew where that was.
UnKnOwN769@reddit
Azerbaijan
seifd@reddit
Nepal, perhaps. I'm not sure it's that rare.
LawfulnessAware8410@reddit
Latvia maybe, my town has a small Latvian community and they have their own church here
crazycatlady331@reddit
I didn't actually talk to them, but I was once in the TSA line (at Cleveland) right behind a couple with Kuwait passports (I know this because the passports were out and visible).
It made me wonder what their story was and what brought them to Cleveland.
ElectricalTwist4083@reddit
Turkmanistan
Temporary_Present640@reddit
Dominica which has a population of about 65,000.
I have also only two people in the US who were from Paraguay. One was a pilot and the other was a doctor and neither of them could believe that I had actually spent time in Paraguay
joshbudde@reddit
We had an exchange student live with us that was from Turkmenistan
Eff-Bee-Exx@reddit
I met a Mongolian guy at a bar in Fairbanks many years ago.
ALoungerAtTheClubs@reddit
To deviate slightly, I think the rarest American-citizen point of origin I've met someone from is Saipan.
moonwillow60606@reddit
Probably Azerbaijan or Georgia. I’ve visited both countries.
Tinfoil_Top_Hat@reddit
Micronesia for me. I didn't even know it existed until I met someone from there.
tomveiltomveil@reddit
I love this game because I went to a college with lots of international students. I knew kids from Singapore, Ghana, Haiti, and Kyrgyzstan. But the record goes to my friend who was an actual, native Luxembourger.
Kind_Way2176@reddit
Just met a bartender from Denmark in Cleveland. First time in Cleveland, not sure if rare
imatthewhitecastle@reddit
Friend from college grew up in Kyrgyzstan, and then one of my friends from grad school was born in the states but his mother was from the Marshall Islands, and he would visit every year or so.
Future-Mess6722@reddit
Kazakhstan.
beenoc@reddit
Another engineer at a plant I used to work at was from Cameroon.
SouthCotton1979@reddit
Quarter.
Certain-Monitor5304@reddit
Hmm probably ...Japanese.
M_Looka@reddit
I used to work with a guy from Guyana... that country has population of less than 1 million people... so that's pretty rare I guess...
FullofLovingSpite@reddit
I went to school with someone from Laos. I worked with someone from Tonga. I met two people from Delaware. And I have met someone from Eritrea.
Off the top of my head, those are the main ones.
lyndseymariee@reddit
I work with a Gambian and Eritrean.
jamojobo12@reddit
DC has a surprisingly large population of Mongolians
Yeegis@reddit
I have a Ukrainian teacher. He’s old, grouchy, pretty sure he’s still a communist.
elfowlcat@reddit
Went to college with a guy from Yugoslavia. While he was here, his country dissolved. He had so much trouble from the US government because suddenly he was here on a passport from a country that no longer existed and he couldn’t go home either, because he didn’t have legal papers.
Xcalat3@reddit
Vanuatu
pinniped90@reddit
Lesotho.
BrotherNatureNOLA@reddit
I've never met anyone from Central Asia.
JeanBonJovi@reddit
Kyrgyzstan. Knew someone through a school program that spent time there and had a friend visiting from Kyrgyzstan.
I_Am_Mandark_Hahaha@reddit
Tokelau. Try finding that on the map!
Finnyfish@reddit
I had a doctor from Azerbaijan. Good guy.
IndividualGrocery984@reddit
I was coming to comment about a friend I have that’s from Azerbaijan!
FemboyEngineer@reddit
One of my mom's closest friends moved here from Liechtenstein.
nomadengineer@reddit
I had a coworker from Togo.
SoulofThesteppe@reddit
Met a guy whose family is Dungan from Kyrgyzstan. spoke Dungan, Kyrgyz, and Russian too.
Bootmacher@reddit
The Marshall Islands, but I happened to live in a town where like 90% of Marshallese expats decided to move, so they weren't a one-off appearance.
Sad_bippy@reddit
I have a student from Kiribati. It’s a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean with a population of only ~130,000. We live in the middle of small town Tennessee, so SUPER rare for him to be here.
CarelessCreamPie@reddit
Helped a guy from Kyrgyzstan figure out the light rail in Seattle.
ciaobella267@reddit
There was a girl at my university from Bhutan
Semirhage527@reddit
Eritrea
ThersATypo@reddit
Vatican
EloquentRacer92@reddit
Maldives
Sigh-lens-peaks@reddit
Yugoslavia
macoafi@reddit
Is the joke that the country doesn’t exist anymore? I went to high school with a bunch of kids who were born in Yugoslavia, though their hometowns were in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the time we were teenagers.
somecow@reddit
Ivory coast. That dude was pure comedy though, enjoyed every single second of working with him.
byte_handle@reddit
Bhutan.
Bhutan stripped ethnic Nepali of their citizenship in the 90s and kicked them out. US efforts to help with the resulting refugee crisis led to many being resettled in western Pennsylvania, which is where I live.
porkchopespresso@reddit
Not a rare country but ran into a high school friend in La Grave France, so kind of a rare town. I didn’t know he lived there and we both went there to ski. We were both pretty surprised to learn we both speak French and yet neither one of us cared about it in high school.
OkQuantity4011@reddit
Ghana! Bro's language was super cool and I'm interested in languages, so we had a brief chat.
angrysquirrel777@reddit
I worked with a guy who grew up on Tuvalu once, that's got to take the cake.
304libco@reddit
I feel so boring! The most exact person I’ve met was Armenian.
alwaysboopthesnoot@reddit
My neighbor where we used to live was from Moldova, from Transnistria.
For most interesting, probably the guy from Madagascar who had worked for an Italian tour agency for a bit, and spoke 5 languages. We worked for an NGO helping with language and numerical literacy, fund raising for micro loans for women-owned small businesses, and for medical aid (specifically helping bring midwives to women in areas that were underserved after natural disasters or wars), and he drive and maintained a jeep used to ferry nurses and techs and medical supplies to the areas we served.
Far-Lecture-4905@reddit
In the US it can really vary.....I saw some folks say Uzbekistan and Eritrea but where I live there are huge communities from those countries. In California somebody from Cabo Verde would be rare but in my elementary school in RI about a fifth of students were from Cabo Verde.
For me personally they would be Qatar, Paraguay, Kosovo, Belarus, Mali and Mauritania because those are countries that didn't really have any other notable presence in the area.
TumbleFairbottom@reddit
I met some students at a local university from Senegal.
stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit
I had a coworker from Tonga
OwlPelletCrunch@reddit
They had more “generic” nationalities, but i’ve met some Galician, Basque, and Circassian people
Also Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Lesotho, Belarus, Moldova, and Uzbekistan
darwinsidiotcousin@reddit
Had a coworker for several years who was from Nepal. Super nice guy and really fun to talk to. We spent a whole day sharing with each other how baseball vs. cricket works
XelaNiba@reddit
Rarotonga ie the Cook Islands
WolfThick@reddit
I met a girl at a garage sale one time from Tonga. It was kind of weird because I had to ask her where she was from because I've never seen anybody that had that look.
Vikingaling@reddit
My old mentor was from Burundi
atheologist@reddit
I have a coworker who is Karakalpak; it’s an ethnic minority whose home region (Karakaplakistan) is primarily in northwest Uzbekistan.
OperationStraight808@reddit
Inca Indian in a small Virginia town
GSilky@reddit
Have yet to talk to another Belgian since HS.
MrLongWalk@reddit
I met a guy from Liechtenstein in Denver
79215185-1feb-44c6@reddit
I worked with an Iraqi Kurd some years ago.
WhiskeyDeltaBravo1@reddit
Micronesia.
darksideofthemoon131@reddit
I work part-time at a FedEx so I feel I have met the United Nations at this point. Id have to say Eritrea, Cyprus, and Macedonia would top my list.
AnnaBaptist79@reddit
Kiribati
Porcupineemu@reddit
When I was in highschool an Estonian girl came by our house selling books and I developed an Eastern European thing for a minute.
Zama202@reddit
Once attended a wedding between a Vanuatuan woman and a Maltese man. Two people from small islands who found love in Florida.
the-coolest-bob@reddit
Bahrain
Maleficent-Hawk-318@reddit
I met someone who was born in Liechtenstein, although he grew up in Belgium.
Gorgonzola2756@reddit
Had an uber driver this weekend from Benin! I got to practice some of my French with him.
ParadoxicalFrog@reddit
I once met a waiter from Tajikistan.
OwlCatAlex@reddit
I had a coworker from Kyrgyzstan
wpascarelli@reddit
I went to a college orientation in Indiana and one of the student facilitators taking us through it was a girl from Moldova.
dodgeball_pseudonym@reddit
Lyft driver I had once immigrated from Mauritania. Super nice guy