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Italian Brazilians

Italian Brazilians
Italo-brasiliani (Italian)
Ítalo-brasileiros (Portuguese)
Italy Brazil

Italian settlement Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo
Total population
c. 450,000 (by citizenship)[1]
c. 32,000,000 (by ancestry, about 15% of the total Brazilian population)[2][3][4] However, it is important to note that there are no official numbers of how many Brazilians have Italian ancestry, as the national census does not ask the ancestry of the Brazilian people since 1940.[5]
Regions with significant populations
Southern and Southeast regions
Languages
Predominantly Brazilian Portuguese. Minority Talian dialect and Italian and/or various Italian languages.
Religion
Related ethnic groups
Italians, other Brazilians

Italian Brazilians (Italian: italo-brasiliani, Portuguese: ítalo-brasileiros) are Brazilians of full or partial Italian descent,[6] whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Brazil during the Italian diaspora, or more recent Italian-born people who've settled in Brazil. Italian Brazilians are the largest number of people with full or partial Italian ancestry outside Italy, with São Paulo being the most populous city with Italian ancestry in the world.[7] Nowadays, it is possible to find millions of descendants of Italians, from the southeastern state of Minas Gerais to the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, with the majority living in São Paulo state.[8] Small southern Brazilian towns, such as Nova Veneza, have as much as 95% of their population of Italian descent.[9]

There are no official numbers of how many Brazilians have Italian ancestry, as the national census conducted by IBGE does not ask the ancestry of the Brazilian people. In 1940, the last census to ask ancestry, 1,260,931 Brazilians were said to be the child of an Italian father, and 1,069,862 said to be the child of an Italian mother. Italians were 285,000 and naturalized Brazilians 40,000. Therefore, Italians and their children were, at most, just over 3.8% of Brazil's population in 1940.[5]

The Embassy of Italy in Brazil, in 2013, reported the number of 32 million descendants of Italian immigrants in Brazil (about 15% of the population),[2][10] half of them in the state of São Paulo,[3] while there were around 450,000 Italian citizens in Brazil.[1] Brazilian culture has significant connections to Italian culture in terms of language, customs, and traditions. Brazil is also a strongly Italophilic country as cuisine, fashion and lifestyle has been sharply influenced by Italian immigration.

  1. ^ a b "Rapporto Italiano Nel Mondo 2019 : Diaspora italiana in cifre" (PDF). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference talian was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b "Personalidades da comunidade italiana recebem o troféu "Loba Romana"". Revista digital "Oriundi". 7 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  4. ^ "República Italiana". www.itamaraty.gov.br.
  5. ^ a b IBGE.Censo brasileiro de 1940.
  6. ^ A game of mirrors: the changing face of ethno-racial constructs and language in the Americas. Thomas M. Stephens. University Press of America, 2003. ISBN 0-7618-2638-6, ISBN 978-0-7618-2638-5. Retrieved on 2010-10-14.
  7. ^ "Brazil - the Country and its People" (PDF). www.brazil.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  8. ^ "Italians - History of the Community". Milpovos.prefeitura.sp.gov.br. Archived from the original on 12 January 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Nova Veneza (in Portuguese)". Archived from the original on 19 August 2008.
  10. ^ "República Italiana". www.itamaraty.gov.br.

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