Brazil was discovered by the Portuguese at the beginning of the 16th century. When they arrived they found the native Indians. From the word “blend” we got the term Caboclo. One hundred years later, African slaves started to arrive and began to blend with the whites, thus creating mulatos, and with Indians creating Cafuzos.With the abolition of slavery at the end of 19th century, boats full of Europeans started to arrive. The Italians worked in the coffee farms in São Paulo and the Germans and Polish worked to develop the states of southern Brazil. At the beginning of 20th century entire families from the Asia, primarily Japanese, along with Koreans and
Lebanese began to arrive in huge numbers trying to create a better life and to start a new journey. Today, more than half of the population of the largest city in Brazil, São Paulo, claims Italian heritage. The largest Japanese community outside Japan is in Brazil, as with the Lebanese outside of Lebanon. Today all are Brazilians, not Afro-Brazilian, Asian-Brazilians, Indian-Brazilians, etc., just simply “Brazilians.” What is equally magical with them is their casual cordiality, their “ginga” (their typical loose-jointed deftness) and their big-heartedness.
Tharson Lopes is a photographer since 1998, born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, he has worked for Folha Popular News in Palmas-TO. More info soon in our site - tharsonlopes@gmail.com
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