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==Germany== {{see also|Vietnamese people in Germany|Koreans in Germany | Academic achievement among different groups in Germany}} In Germany the academic success of people of Vietnamese origin has been called "Das vietnamesische Wunder"<ref name="Vietnamese Miracle Zeit">{{cite news|url=http://www.zeit.de/2009/05/B-Vietnamesen|title=Integration: Das vietnamesische Wunder | ZEIT ONLINE|newspaper=Die Zeit |date=2009-01-22|publisher=Zeit.de|access-date=2015-02-24 |last1=Spiewak |first1=Martin }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-critical-pedagogies/book257052|title=Vietnamese Students and the Emerging Model Minority|last=Hartlep|first=Nicholas|date=2020-03-01|website=SAGE Publications Ltd|language=en-gb|access-date=2020-02-01}}</ref>(''"The Vietnamese Miracle"''). A study revealed that in the Berlin districts of [[Lichtenberg, Berlin|Lichtenberg]] and [[Marzahn]], both in former [[East Berlin]] and possessing a relatively small percentage of immigrants, Vietnamese account for only 2% of the general population, but make up 17% of the prep school population.<ref>Von Berg, Stefan; Darnstädt, Thomas; Elger, Katrin; Hammerstein, Konstantin von; Hornig, Frank; Wensierski, Peter: "[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-67282817.html Politik der Vermeidung]". Spiegel.</ref> Another note of Vietnamese Germans' academic success is that even though they can grow up in poverty in places like East Germany, they usually outperform their peers by a wide margin.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.zeit.de/2009/05/B-Vietnamesen?page=1|date=2009-01-22|issue=5|periodical=[[Die Zeit]]|title=Gute Schüler: Kinder eingewanderter Vietnamesen|last=Spiewak|first=Martin|access-date=2009-03-03}}</ref> Another group in Germany that is extremely academically successful and is comparable to that of a model minority are [[Koreans in Germany|Korean Germans]], 70% of whom attended a Gymnasium (which is comparable to a [[University-preparatory school|prep school]] in American society), compared to [[Vietnamese people in Germany|Vietnamese Germans]] with only 50% attending a Gymnasium.<ref name="Vietnamese Miracle Zeit"/><ref name="Choi"/> Also, over 70% of second-generation Korean Germans hold at least an ''[[Abitur]]'' or higher educational qualification, more than twice the ratio of the rest of Germany.<ref name="Choi">{{cite report |last1=Choi|first1=Sun-Ju|first2=You-Jae|last2=Lee |url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/kr/seo/pro/redigiert.pdf |language=de |title=Umgekehrte Entwicklungshilfe – Die koreanische Arbeitsmigration in Deutschland |trans-title=Reverse Development Assistance – Korean labour migration in Germany |publisher=Goethe Institute|location=Seoul|date=January 2006|access-date=2015-02-24}}</ref>
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