BRASILIANS ALL THE FACE AS IN THE WORLD.

Brasilians are the friendly and talkative people who inhabit Brazil, in South America. They love to play soccer, to dance and to party. They also work hard and are very creative.



Brazil has a population of over 180 million people and it is the fifth most populous country in the world, after China, India, the US, and Indonesia. The rate at which the population is increasing is slowing down. In the early 1960s, women could expect to have 6 children on average. Such figure fell to an average of 2.4 children per woman in 2004.



All the face As in the world.


Brazil is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial nation of immigrants - not unlike the United States. If you walk down a crowded street in Brazil, visit a festival, or go to a soccer game, you will see all kinds of people.

Many of them will be of "mixed race", because right from the first days of the Portuguese settlements, the different peoples of Brazil intermarried.

The Portuguese came to Brazil primarily to exploit its natural resources. They settled on the northeast coast where the fertile soils and climate of the coastal plain were ideal for growing sugar cane.

The original colonists survived by sending sugar, timber, gold, and silver back to Europe. Africans were brought as slaves to work on the sugar plantations beginning in the early 1500s. Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888.


By then, the slave trade already was declining because immigrant laborers replaced slaves on farms and in mines. Migrant workers from Europe came in search of better economic opportunities.
In the early 18th century, more came after great gold mines were discovered in the state of Minas Gerais. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Europeans came to work in the rubber industry in the Amazon or in coffee plantations in southeastern Brazil.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Europeans came to work in the rubber industry in the Amazon or in coffee plantations in southeastern Brazil.


Between 1929 and 1945, the immigration decreased because of the wars in Europe. Nowadays, new groups of immigrants are arriving from Asia and some other countries of South America.


People usually say that Brazilians have all the faces of the world. There is no such a thing as a “typical Brazilian".

The 1991 census recorded that about 55% of the population is of European origin, 39% of mixed race, 5% of African origin, and 0.5% is of Japanese original.


Brazil is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial nation of immigrants - not unlike the United States. If you walk down a crowded street in Brazil, visit a festival, or go to a soccer game, you will see all kinds of people.

Many of them will be of "mixed race", because right from the first days of the Portuguese settlements, the different peoples of Brazil intermarried.

Today, Brazilians are the African, European, Native Indian, Asian and Middle-Estern descendents, mostly intermixed. Brazil is a melting pot.








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