13 Facts About Italian Brazilian

Italian Brazilian citizens residing in Brazil elect representatives together with Argentina, Uruguay and other countries in South America.

That was part of the political plan of the new fascist government to link Italian Brazilian people living outside of Italy with their mother country and the interests of the regime.

All of those figures include only people born in Italy, not their Italian Brazilian-born descendants.

In 1875, the first Italian Brazilian colonies were established in Santa Catarina, which lies immediately to the north of Rio Grande do Sul.

Many Italian Brazilian farmers were used to command slaves and treated the immigrants as indentured servants.

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In Southern Brazil, the Italian Brazilian immigrants were living in relatively well-developed colonies, but in Southeastern Brazil they were living in semislavery conditions in the coffee plantations.

Major measure of the government occurred in 1889, when Italian Brazilian citizenship was granted to all immigrants, but the act had little influence on their identity or assimilation process.

Italian Brazilian dialects came to dominate the streets of Sao Paulo and in some Southern localities.

Over time, languages based on Italian Brazilian dialects tended to disappear, and their presence is small.

However, some more closed members of the Italian Brazilian community saw this integration process as negative.

Italian Brazilian immigrants were very important to the development of many big cities in Brazil, such as Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Belo Horizonte.

Italian Brazilian is more heard in Sao Paulo than in Turin, Milan or Naples, because while between us the dialects are spoken, in Sao Paulo all dialects merge under the Venetians' and Toscans' influx, who are the majority, and the natives adopted the Italian Brazilian as an official language.

Italian Brazilian dialects have influenced the Portuguese spoken in some areas of Brazil.