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TheBig3 · 12-28-2012, 10:40 AM

Did the people who make up Brazil come "from a multitude of different cultures and backgrounds and then had to forge out a new life in a new environment."

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Unknown Soldier · 12-28-2012, 11:21 AM

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When isn't America at war?

When you become the world's policeman, wars are easy to find.

But I guess the 'roaring twenties' were quite a peaceful time.

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Did the people who make up Brazil come "from a multitude of different cultures and backgrounds and then had to forge out a new life in a new environment."
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Very much so and it was one of the huge immigration hotspots of the 20th century and also one of the largest. Huge amounts of people from Portugal, Spain, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, much of Eastern Europe and also quite a few people from the Arab states most notably from the Lebanon. You don't get a population of 194 million people without taking in quite a few immigrants! and then of course they had to adapt to their new and strange environment.

TheBig3 · 12-29-2012, 11:08 AM

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When you become the world's policeman, wars are easy to find.

But I guess the 'roaring twenties' were quite a peaceful time.

Very much so and it was one of the huge immigration hotspots of the 20th century and also one of the largest. Huge amounts of people from Portugal, Spain, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, much of Eastern Europe and also quite a few people from the Arab states most notably from the Lebanon. You don't get a population of 194 million people without taking in quite a few immigrants! and then of course they had to adapt to their new and strange environment.

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.

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.

Unknown Soldier · 12-29-2012, 11:42 AM

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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.

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.

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.

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