Does Berlin have Palauns or any other Pacific islander groups?

The Pacific Islander community in Berlin is extremely small, almost invisible compared to the Turkish or Vietnamese populations. You might find a few individuals through the anthropology department at Freie Universitat or the Ethnologisches Museum, but there's no social club or regular gathering that I've ever heard of. If you're specifically looking for that cultural connection, you'd probably have more luck connecting with the German Pacific Society, which is based in Hamburg but has some members in Berlin.

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honestly pacific islander communities are pretty tiny here compared to turkish or vietnamese groups. there's no real neighborhood or cultural center for them that i know of, maybe a handful of families scattered around. you'd have better luck finding them in hamburg or maybe through the university networks if you're a student. there is a small "pacific islands club" that meets at the völkerkundemuseum in dahlem sometimes, but it's more academic than social

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yeah nah pacific islander presence here is basically nonexistent compared to other communities. i once met a guy from fiji at a random bbq in kreuzberg but that was pure luck. your best bet might be checking online groups or the embassy events if there's one nearby

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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