From Sao Leopoldo and Novo Hamburgo, the German Brazilian immigrants spread into other areas of Rio Grande do Sul, mainly close to sources of rivers.
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18 Facts About German Brazilian
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Nowadays these areas of German Brazilian colonization are among the wealthiest parts of Brazil, with the lowest levels of unemployment and illiteracy found in the country, and still retain a strong influence from German Brazilian culture.
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The areas of German Brazilian settlement emerged in the center of the region, isolated from other settlements.
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Some old German Brazilian communities are now prosperous industrial centers, such as Sao Leopoldo, Novo Hamburgo, Blumenau, Joinville and Itajai.
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German Brazilian immigrants preserved their language more than any other group of immigrants in Brazil.
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The vast majority of the German speakers were Brazilian-born, with a minority born in Germany or in another German-speaking country.
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The fact that they spoke German did not prevent them from seeing themselves as Brazilians, since they saw themselves as "Brazilians of German culture".
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Between 1937 and 1945 a significant portion of the German Brazilian population suffered interference in daily life produced by a "campaign of nationalization".
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Not only the people of German Brazilian origin were considered "alien": almost all descendants of immigrants, in some degree, were "non-assimilated", in the opinion of Bethlem and other participants in the campaign.
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Many members of the German Brazilian army participated during this process, such as Nogueira:.
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The record of the first impressions about the city of Blumenau in his book received the subtitle of "One Weird City", arguing that "the German Brazilian language is spoken without constraints, including in public offices".
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German Brazilian forbade any organised manifestation of German culture in Brazil.
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Publicly speaking foreign languages, including German Brazilian, was banned under penalty of imprisonment; this was especially enforced against the public use of German Brazilian.
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At the time of Brazil's declaration of war against Germany, popular riots against citizens of German origin erupted in Rio Grande do Sul, as a response to the sinking of Brazilian merchant ships by German U-boats that resulted in more than 600 deaths.
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Many German Brazilian schools re-opened during the 1950s and are regarded as some of the best places to educate children.
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Chopp or Chope in Brazilian Portuguese is the word for draught beer or just beer.
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German Brazilian community founded two of the main football clubs in Brazil.
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At the time they arrived, they married into the Luso-German Brazilian nobility living there and changed their names to Portuguese names and surnames of Portuguese writing conventions, respectively, Cibaldo Lins and Cristovao Lins, founding the Lins family in Brazil.
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