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Originally Posted by TheBig3
Two things: 1. America may not have been at war with other countries at that time, but we had prohibition then and domestically it was a ****ing nightmare.
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I won't argue with that one, but it must've been a bummer for drinkers.
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2: Going to Brazil to hide out from the retribution of the world for your imperialist/fascist crimes is not equatable to people immigrating to the US because there was less of a class structure and more economic opportunity.
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You've got this totally wrong here. Most of the people that were emigrating to Brazil were doing it for the same reasons as those that were emigrating to the USA, which was to get away from their miserable lives and improve themselves. In the middle part of the 20th century the country was undergoing its industrialisation process and it needed people. The country should've been one of the major economic success stories of the 20th century but due to rampant corruption and dictatorships it wasn't, but it seems to be getting there now.
A few escaping Nazis must've been a drop in the ocean, because at the time the country was taking in around 35,000 people a year.