Brazzil

Loved reading your article, well written and very interesting. Thanks!

I am brazilian from Piracicaba (São Paulo State), 4 of my 8 great-grandparents came from Italy, in the region of Veneto. My city has around 350 thousand inhabitants and 60% of these have italian blood at some level.It is easy to notice the cultural and even linguistic differences when we go to other parts of Brazil such as the Northeast or even Rio de Janeiro, for example.
I have to say I loved this article.

Thanks! When I was researching for the article, I read just that, that Veneto is where most of the Italians came from. Very interesting.

Initially it was titled "Ciao Italy, Ciao Brazil" and thats why I led into it with speaking of the etimology of the word 'ciao.'

Here is a site for Italian-Brazilians (it's in Portuguese)

http://www.oriundi.net/

My Portuguese teacher is Italian. Nice article.

"Although Italian-Brazilians only make up a small percentage of the population of Brazil they seem to be all over. People with German, Japanese or Portuguese blood also seem to be in every corner. But that is another story."

African?

Being of Italian decent, this article was particularly interesting for me. Very well written and informative.

My apologies. After writing a piece partly having to do with slavery, how could I forget Africans in the end? If there was an edit button, I'd change it. Thanks for catching that. Always good to have constructive feedback.

- Adam

Thanks for clearing it up. Congrats on all of your articles.

How are the Italian bundas in the south of Brasil compared to the bundas to the Northern or central part of Brasil ( Rio, Bahia ) I am a conneusseur of bundas and have yet to explore the southern part of Brasil. Are the bundas plump and round, held high and built for hard riding or flat and flabby and losing their elasticity after frequent use as well as the onset of aging and child rearing. This would be of particular interest to myself and dare I say others as the bunda is of great importance to Brasil's infrastructure and economic stability.

Italianos

Tuti boona gente ma tutti ladrone.

The only problem I have with this article is that it was too short! Adam, you just got me interested before you cut it short. Great research along with great writing. I would be interested to see your follow up research. Keep it up!

Great Article! Keep up the good work.

I suppose you could write a piece of equal length of the Italian struggle for worker's rights in the São Paulo area. Was this due to the greater greed of the coffee barons, or was it a different population of Italians with different ideas about worker rights? Do present day Brazilians of Italian descent tend to stand for workers rights?

excellent. question , maybe a different story but how is the town of americana connected with the old southern usa? i heard it was , maybe not though.thanks

Actually it very much was connected there are decendents of the old south there today and a few families in the area still speak english with a southern accent. Jimmy Carter visited there when he was president because he had an ancestor who had immigrated there. The funny thing about it is they brought thier slaves with them because slavery was legal, but there are some examples of them passing thier businesses and land down to the slaves and the slaves making a success of it. There are some sites and a book or two on the history.

now this is very interesting.that would mean that much southern blood might be flowing in that town in brasil. is this why all the brazilian women are so beautiful?(jest) or?

Thanks for the awesome article.
I'm Brazilian, from São Paulo... According to my family roots i'm a mix of european races (such as spanish, italian, german and portuguese)...
Few, really few peoples here knows about the italian descendence of our people...

And about Africans/Amerindians... We have them too... as well like the United States and other developed countries... But why do you think we only have them? Even our "mestiço" or "pardo" people (racial breedings) are white black or asian/amerindian, that represents a major portion then the black population (and them can't be classified as Africans).

My skin color is white... almost pale... But I can consider myself "pardo" without even having dark skin, since i didn't came from a "pure race" (wich actually doesn't exists in anyplace of the world). As well how many italian-descents has black/amerindian breedings and a darker skin and consider themselves black or pardo as well.

Great Article,please tell us more.
Sincerely,Raymonty/Seedplanter/Old Dog

I loved this article particularly b/c I am Italian and Brazilian. I didnt know this until about7 years ago when researching my family tree! I was raised in an Italian house but my grandparents had passed away long before I was old enough to ask any real questions reguarding our heritage. I was so happy to fianlly read this article confirming my finds... Thanks

I found your article very Interesting to say the least, as you know there are 3 Venice's my Father comes from the famous water Venice I never knew any of what you wrote about,please write more.
Ronnie