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The Portuguese is the main European ethnic group in Brazil. Immigration of Portuguese people to Brazil occurs since the beginning of its colonisation, in the 16th Century , thought most Portuguese immigrated to Brazil in the early 20th Century . IMMIGRATION TO BRAZIL Restricted Portuguese immigrants (1500-1700) In 1500 , the first Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral , disembarked in Brazil , where nowadays Porto Seguro is located. They had the first contact with the Indigenous Of Brazil . At first time, the portuguese thought they had discovered an island, but soon they have noticed it was a new continent. In the first years, just a few Portuguese settled in Brazil and most of them were living among the Amerindians. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Portuguese immigration to Brazil was very low. The Portuguese Crown was expanding its Empire in Asia , and did not care too much about the new lands in the Americas . However, many pirates, mainly French , were already dealing Pau Brasil with the Amerindians. This situation worried Portugal, and in 1530, they effectively started to colonizate Brazil. The first Portuguese colonists started to settled in Brazil is larger numbers in the middle 16th century, along the cost of Brazil, where the first Portuguese villages have been stabilished. Many of these colonists were ''degredados'', undesirable people of Portugal, like thieves and murders, who have been forced to immigrate to Brazil. During the 17th century, most Portuguese settlers in Brazil were rich people, who moved to the Northeastern part of the country to stabilish the first Sugar devices. At the same time, Sephardi Jews were being expelt from Portugal, and some of them immigrated to Brazil, where the first Jewish community in the Americas has been stabilished. Some Portuguese-Gypsies also immigrated to Brazil during this time. Most of these Portuguese were males. The number of Portuguese women in Brazil during the colonial period was low, because they were afraid to bring female people to Brazil. For that reason, many Portuguese men had relashionship with Amerindian women and after, with African slaves women, resulting a large mixed-race population. Growing Portuguese immigrants (1700-1850) In the 18th Century , Portuguese immigration to Brazil grew up quickly. Many Gold mines have been discovered in the region of Minas Gerais and Portugal was overpopulated, with many unemployeds. Although many rich Portuguese people immigrated to Brazil during this period, most of them were poor peasants from Minho , in Northern Portugal. In the beginning, Portugal has stimulated the immigration of ''minhotos'' to Brazil, but, after some years, the immigration was so great that the Portuguese Crown had to establish difficulties and barriers to further immigration. Most of these Portuguese had settled in Minas Gerais region and in the Center-West of Brazil. In the middle 17th century, occurred a significant immigration of Portuguese from the Azorean Islands to the coast of Southern Brazil. During this period, the number of Portuguese women in Brazil grew up, resulting a larger White population. A significant immigration of very rich Portuguese to Brazil occurred in 1808, when Queen Maria I Of Portugal and her son and regent, the future João VI Of Portugal , fleeing from Napoleon , relocated to Brazil with 15.000 members of the royal family, nobles and government and stabilished themselves in Rio De Janeiro . They returned to Portugal in 1821, and in 1822 Brazil became independent. Waves of Portuguese immigrants (1850-1960) After independence, instead of decrease, Portuguese immigration to Brazil increased a lot. In 1850, the traffic of African Slaves to Brazil was forbidden, then the Brazilian Government started to stimulated European immigration to Brazil, in order to obtain workers to the Coffee plantions, that were spreading enormously in the region. In the late 19th Century and early 20th Century , hundreds of thousand of Portuguese immigrated to Brazil. Most of them were very poor peasants from the interior of Portugal and used to immigrate in families, with large porcentage of women and children. The majority settled in urban centers, mainly in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro , working mainly as small traders. Almost all the bakeries in Rio, for example, were of Portuguese people. Low Portuguese immigration (1960-2000) In the 1930's, the Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas created a law that produced difficulties to the settlement of immigrants in Brazil. This law led to a decline in Portuguese immigration. However, between 1940 and 1960, thousands of Portuguese continued to emmigrate to Brazil. After that, with the growth of the Portuguese economy, a declioning number of Portuguese immigrants settled in Brazil, and in the present day the movement is mostly in the reverse direction. PORTUGUESE IMMIGRATION IN NUMBERS
PORTUGUESE-BRAZILIAN IDENTITY Brazil has been colonized by Portugal, and both countries share many cultural aspects: the language, the main religion and many traditions. After independence, the elite of Brazil, even though they were of Portuguese descent, tried to dimish the Portuguese culture in the new country, and stabilish a ''Brazilian culture'', different from that of Portugal. Portuguese immigration to Brazil ocurres since the 15th century. Since then, the Portuguese mixed a lot with other ethnic groups of Brazil, such as the Amerindians and Africans and, from the 19th century, with other European immigrants in Brazil, such as Italians and Germans . For all these reasons, many Portuguese-Brazilians do not know or are not interested about their Portuguese ancestry and do not have much affectivity with Portugal, different from other more recent immigrant groups in Brazil, such as Japanese Brazilians , who are for the most part, still connected with Japan . The Brazilian Culture is in large part derived from the Portuguese Culture and for the similarities between both cultures and the relatively easy integration of immigrants in Brazil makes it nearly impossible to keep a separate Portuguese identity. Starting from the second generation, Portuguese descendants start seeing themselves as purely Brazilians. Nowadays, the Brazilian culture is influencing the Portuguese one. Brazilian Music , Brazilian Telenovelas , movies and traditions makes part of the reality of Portugal. Even the different words used in Brazilian Portuguese are now being adopted in the European Portuguese . Since the early 1990's, Portugal became a destination of Brazilian immigrants. THE PORTUGUESE IN CURRENT BRAZIL There are many Portuguese-born people in Brazil. In the 2000 census, there were 200.000 Portuguese immigrants in Brazil, most of them immigrated to Brazil in the middle 20th century, and the community is in full decline, because the majority of them are old people. In fact, it is almost impossible to know the number of Portuguese-Brazilians, because Portuguese immigration to Brazil occurred since the 15th century. Estimates says that at least 35 million Brazilians have Portuguese ancertors who settled in Brazil after 1850. A much higher number of Brazilians have Portuguese ancestry from before 1850. In recent years, a significant number of Portuguese pensioners have been moving to Brazil, mainly to the Northeastern part of country, attracted by the tropical weather, the beaches and Brazil's lifestyle. Most are dedicated to tourism. FAMOUS BRAZILIANS OF PORTUGUESE DESCENT This list contains only people of actual Portuguese origin or with very close Portuguese ancestry.
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