Unironically, that's where the wild west went. There's too much history to go over, but it's literally true
My personal favorite bit of Brazillian history is the fact that some remnant of the Confederacy also went there, so there are small pockets of Southern US culture bred into Brazillian one.
When the Confederacy collapsed a few thousand people moved to Brazil to escape the Union. Brazil was popular because the Emperor at the time was both a huge Confederate supplier and supporter during the war and was offering land for 22 cents an acre to them. He even helped the travel costs, guaranteed them quick citizenship and often would personally greet them on arrival.
For a lot of reasons it didn't go super well, but by the time things settled down there were about 3500 of them who just settled their area and kept going into the now. Now there are small communities that still celebrate the Confederate history simply because its their own history.
Its a very interesting place. Its been a major player throughout history and is still pretty important to a lot of elements of the world stage.
But because they speak fucking Portuguese nobody wants to talk to them. Heck their culture around black, white and pardo is a rabbit hole of deep that you could spend forever talking to people about.
My personal favorite bit of Brazillian history is the fact that some remnant of the Confederacy also went there, so there are small pockets of Southern US culture bred into Brazillian one.
Yes, that's one of the things I was thinking of.
Could you tell me more about this?
When the Confederacy collapsed a few thousand people moved to Brazil to escape the Union. Brazil was popular because the Emperor at the time was both a huge Confederate supplier and supporter during the war and was offering land for 22 cents an acre to them. He even helped the travel costs, guaranteed them quick citizenship and often would personally greet them on arrival.
For a lot of reasons it didn't go super well, but by the time things settled down there were about 3500 of them who just settled their area and kept going into the now. Now there are small communities that still celebrate the Confederate history simply because its their own history.
Thanks, this is interesting. Never really paid attention to Brazil before.
Its a very interesting place. Its been a major player throughout history and is still pretty important to a lot of elements of the world stage.
But because they speak fucking Portuguese nobody wants to talk to them. Heck their culture around black, white and pardo is a rabbit hole of deep that you could spend forever talking to people about.