12 Facts About Italian Brazilians

Italian Brazilians are the largest number of people with full or partial Italian ancestry outside Italy, with Sao Paulo being the most populous city with Italian ancestry in the world.

Italian Brazilians 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 Brazilians people living outside of Italy with their mother country and the interests of the regime.

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

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

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

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

Marriages between Italians and Brazilians were extremely common, mostly in the low classes, and were largely accepted for both people.

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

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

Italian Brazilians 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 Brazilians as an official language.

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