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Paraná boasts five Ukrainian-language radio stations, [15] including "Zabava" which broadcasts news, Ukrainian folk and pop music, and the Divine Liturgy. [17] In addition, Brazil has 23 Ukrainian dance troupes. [11] In the rural areas, Ukrainians rarely marry non-Ukrainians, and mixed marriages generally adopt the Ukrainian culture. [3]
Portuguese immigrants arriving in Rio de Janeiro European immigrants arriving in São Paulo. The Brazilian population was formed by the influx of Portuguese settlers and African slaves, mostly Bantu and West African populations [4] (such as the Yoruba, Ewe, and Fanti-Ashanti), into a territory inhabited by various indigenous South American tribal populations, mainly Tupi, Guarani and Ge.
Today, large ethnic Ukrainian minorities reside in Russia, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Italy and Argentina. [ citation needed ] According to some sources, around 20 million people outside Ukraine identify as having Ukrainian ethnicity, [ 88 ] [ 89 ] [ 90 ] however the official data of the respective countries calculated ...
European immigration to Brazil refers to the movement of European people to Brazil. It should not be confused with the colonisation of the country by the Portuguese.. According to the 2022 census, 88.8% (180 million) of Brazilians are of European descent. 43.46% (88 million) are of European descent only and identify as White. 45.34% (92 million) are descendants of Europeans mixed with Africans ...
Brazil does not have a category for multiracial people, but a Pardo (brown) one, which may include caboclos, mulatos, cafuzos (local ethnonyms for people of noticeable mixed European and Amerindian, African and European, and Amerindian and African descent, i.e., mestizos, mulattoes and zambos, respectively), the multiracial result of their ...
Other languages such as Polish and Ukrainian, along with German and Italian, are spoken in rural areas of Southern Brazil, by small communities of descendants of immigrants, who are for the most part bilingual. There are whole regions in southern Brazil where people speak both Portuguese and one or more of these languages.
Estimates suggest there are roughly 500,000 people of Ukrainian descent living in Brazil today. The Ukrainian Brazilian population is mostly centered in the state of Paraná, particularly in the city of Prudentópolis, where 75% of the population is of Ukrainian descent and Ukrainian is an official language. [7] The majority of this population ...
According to the Memorial do Imigrante, Brazil attracted nearly 5 million immigrants between 1870 and 1953. [7] [8] Most of the immigrants were from Italy or Portugal, but also significant numbers of Germans, Spaniards, Japanese and Syrian-Lebanese. [9] The Portuguese settlers were the ones to start the intensive race-mixing process in Brazil.