Brazil is the most diverse immigrant destination in the Western Hemisphere outside the United States.
The largest Japanese population outside Japan lives in Brazil.
Roughly 2 million Brazilians of Japanese descent call Brazil home, with most concentrated in São Paulo state and the Liberdade neighborhood of São Paulo.
The first Japanese immigrants arrived on the ship Kasato Maru at the Port of Santos on June 18, 1908.
Brazil also has the largest Italian descendant population outside Italy.
Roughly 25 to 32 million Brazilians have Italian ancestry, making up about 15% of the country's population.
São Paulo is the city with the largest Italian-descended population in the world, more than any city in Italy itself.
The southern Brazilian town of Nova Veneza is 95% Italian descent, with traditions, dialect, and architecture imported directly from the Veneto region.
Brazil has the largest Lebanese descendant population on Earth.
Between 7 and 10 million Brazilians have Lebanese ancestry, more than the population of Lebanon itself.
Three of Brazil's most prominent recent leaders are of Lebanese descent, including former President Michel Temer and São Paulo political figures Paulo Maluf and Fernando Haddad.
The largest Ukrainian community in Latin America lives in Brazil.
Roughly 600,000 Ukrainian descendants live in southern Brazil, mostly in a 5,000 square kilometer region of Paraná state called "Brazilian Ukraine."
The town of Prudentópolis is 75% Ukrainian descent and made Ukrainian an official language alongside Portuguese in 2021.
There are 230 Ukrainian Catholic churches in Paraná state alone.
One of the largest Oktoberfests outside Germany happens every year in Blumenau, Santa Catarina.
The town of Pomerode is the most German municipality in Brazil, where most residents are bilingual in Portuguese and the East Pomeranian dialect of Low German.
Brazil received approximately 4 million European immigrants between 1870 and 1940, second only to the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
Most people do not know that Brazil quietly built one of the most diverse immigrant societies on Earth.
The country that built itself by absorbing Japan, Italy, Lebanon, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Spain, and Portugal at scale is now reshaping the global economy.
Understanding modern Brazil starts with understanding how many countries already live inside it.
O AGENTE SECRETO é um filme brasileiro com balde de pipoca nos multiplex, nunca pensei. 🇧🇷
Eu quero é que esse filme passe nas salas grandes, que faça balacubacu. @vitrine_filmes
O Rio de Janeiro tem bairros que poderiam ser classificados entre os mais bonitos do mundo. A cidade foi escolhida a dedo do Imperador para ser capital e vitrine do país. Depois, passou por muitos projetos de embelezamento para manter o papel.
Esses são os mais bonitos+
1. Urca