Brazil attracted a huge influx of Germans, especially in southern Brazil, something that not even Argentina, which tried, failed to achieve. The German diaspora in Brazil is much larger than that in Argentina. This is without counting the large Portuguese immigration in colonial times and the Italians.
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Brazilian government wanted to make the country more white with the end of slavery and Germany was under the reunification war and many would take the chance of moving there to own land. There used to be travel agents who would recruit potential families, usually at churches, but Protestants were also welcome.
There was "unoficial project", to "whitening" the population so there was govermental actually stimulated european migration over here. Giving some land and money for the migrats settle down.
The land was (obviously) indigenous, and I say "unoficial" in quotetion marks because they never write down a plan down, but the goverment was run by a bunch of eugenicist at the time so you can do the math.
Brazil’s economy was bigger in the 1800s and 1900s, stronger economy = more demand for immigration and labor.
Also, Brazil’s government gave very generous incentives to these immigrants. I don’t know how generous were Argentina’s incentives.
Thing is, they did go to other latina american countries, here in PY the largest descendants diaspora are germans.
After the great war 85%-90% of our male population was wiped out and we were only able to rebuild thanks to european immigration
All of Latin America attracted Germans. In fact, Germans can be found everywhere. That is why Latinos drink so much beer, and why you’ll find people that look like Adolf Hitlers cousin that insist they’re mestizos
Isn’t there a ton of Germans all over Latin-America? We have German towns here in Peru where people still speak German. A huge amount of people in Cajamarca are of German descent. I myself am of German descent (although my parents immigrated from the U.S. rather than directly from Germany- my grandparents were from Germany originally). And Peru doesn’t even have a reputation for Germans.
Now that I think about it, LatAm is the real melting pot.
Brazil has more German descendants in absolute numbers, but both countries have a similar a similar % of descendants. Around 5-8% of the population of Argentina and Brazil is of German descent.
Are you completely ignoring Guatemala’s German descendants?
Ahh you see back in 1938 and 1945 occurred something called WWII many nazis escaped to the jungle and Argentina when the war ended
Germany had lots of people and not enough land. Brazil the opposite. What do you expect.
Can you guess where this is?
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look up branqueamento and theres your answer
The brazilian economy was thriving.
Brazil was a monarchy.
Let me explain better, the first empress of Brazil was Maria Leopoldina of Austria who invited the first german immigrants to settle in Brazil in 1824. The propaganda that germans were welcome in Brazil and that brazilian monarchs were of german origin was always used.
An attempt by the State to whitewash the population after slavery ended.