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A Polish Brazilian is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
ian-born person of Polish descent, or a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
-born person with Brazilian citizenship. The number of Polish descendants in Brazil is estimated at 1.8 million.

Polish immigrants began arriving in Brazil

Brazil

Paraná (state)

Paran? is one of the States of Brazil of Brazil, located in the Southern Region, Brazil of the country, bordering Paraguay and Argentina. Cut by the Tropic of Capricorn, Paran? has what is left of the araucarias forest, one of the most important subtropical forests of the world....
is a dominantly Polish area in Brazil.

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A Polish Brazilian is a Brazil

Brazil

Poland

Brazil

Paraná (state)

Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
and dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dance. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement....
to Brazil such as mazurka and polonaise. In addition to the musical elements of the Polish culture, immigrants also brought customs, manners, and styles of clothing. Polish culture has also had an impact on aspects of the cuisine

Cuisine

Cuisine is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade....
and architecture

Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
of Brazil.

Poles

Poles

The Polish people, or Poles , are a West Slavs ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent....
live in Guarapuava, Curitiba

Curitiba

Curitiba is the capital city of the Brazilian Brazilian state of Paran? . The city has the largest population and also the largest economy in Southern Region, Brazil....
, Campo Largo, Contenda, Araucária

Araucaria

Araucaria is a genus of evergreen Pinophyta trees in the family Araucariaceae. There are 19 species in the genus, with a highly disjunct distribution in New Caledonia , Norfolk Island, eastern Australia, New Guinea, Argentina, Chile, and southern Brazil....
, Lapa Sao Mateus do Sul, Irati. With the immigrants there was the valorization of job

Employment

Employment is a contract between two party , one being the #Employer and the other being the #Employee. An employee may be defined as: "A person in the Service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral contract or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and Management the employee i...
s on the planted lands and the use of new instruments, like the plow, the grille, the sickle to cut. There was the introducing of new forms of job and professions, like forgeman, carpenter

Carpenter

A carpenter is a skilled artisan who performs carpentry - a wide range of woodworking that includes constructing building construction, furniture, and other objects out of wood....
, joiner

Joiner

A joiner differs from a carpenter in that he cuts and fits joints in wood that do not use nails, usually in a workshop environment since the formation of the various joints generally require non-portable machinery....
and tailor

Tailor

A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew and scissor menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them.Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suit , coat s, trousers, and similar garments, u...
. The immigrants work helped a lot on the economic growning up of Paraná and renovated Paraná's social structure.

Immigration

The first Polish immigrants arrived in the port of Itajaí

Itajaí

Itaja? is a Brazilian city in the states of Brazil of Santa Catarina ....
, Santa Catarina

Santa Catarina (state)

is a States of Brazil in southern Brazil with one of the highest standards of living in the country. Its capital is Florian?polis, which mostly lies on the Santa Catarina Island....
, in August 1869. They were 78 Polish of the area of Southern Silesia. Commandant Redlisch, of the ship Victoria, brought people from Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the Europe. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there i...
to settle Brusque.

They were in total 16 families, among them: Francisco Pollak, Nicolau Wós, Boaventura Pollak, Thomasz Szymanski, Simon Purkot, Felipe Purkot, Miguel Prudlo, Simon Otto, Domin Stempke, Gaspar Gbur, Balcer Gbur, Walentin Weber, Antoni Kania, Franciszek Kania, André Pampuch and Stefan Kachel. The Polish were placed in the colonies Príncipe Dom Pedro and Itajaí, in the area of Brusque.

The Polish immigration to Brazil has not been as large as the immigration of Portuguese

Portuguese people

The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....
or Italians

Italian people

The Italian people are a Southern European ethnic group located primarily in Italy and, by virtue of a wide-ranging Italian diaspora, throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australia....
. However, a significant number of Poles have settled in Brazil. From 1872 to 1959, 110,243 "Russian" citizens entered Brazil. In fact, the vast majority of them were Poles, since Poland was under Russian rule and ethnic Poles immigrated with Russian passport

Passport

A passport is a document, issued by a national government, which certifies, for the purpose of international travel, the identity and nationality of its holder....
s.

The State of Paraná

Paraná (state)

Curitiba

Curitiba is the capital city of the Brazilian Brazilian state of Paran? . The city has the largest population and also the largest economy in Southern Region, Brazil....
, in the towns of Mallet, Cruz Machado, São Matheus do Sul, Irati, and União da Vitória.

Most Polish immigrants to Southern Brazil were Catholics who arrived between 1870–1920 and worked as small farmers in the State of Paraná

Paraná (state)

Rio Grande do Sul

is the southernmost States of Brazil of Brazil, and the State with the fourth highest Human Development Index . In Rio Grande do Sul is the most southern city of the country, Chu?, on Uruguayan border....
and Santa Catarina

Santa Catarina (state)

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s immigrated seeking refuge from Europe, settling mainly in the State of São Paulo. Today most Brazilian Jews are of Polish descent.

Religion

In a 1991 poll with Polish immigrants residents in Southeastern Brazil, 48.5% reported to be Jewish, 36.4% Catholic

Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
, 10.7% adherents of other religions and 4.5% non-religious.

Polish culture in Brazil

The State of Paraná

Paraná (state)

Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
is spoken by some of them, although nowadays most Polish Brazilians only speak Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
. The city of Curitiba

Curitiba

Curitiba is the capital city of the Brazilian Brazilian state of Paran? . The city has the largest population and also the largest economy in Southern Region, Brazil....
has the second largest Polish diaspora

Polonia

Polonia, the name for Poland in Latin and many other languages, refers in modern Polish language to the Polish diaspora: Polish people who live outside the country's borders....
in the world (after Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
) and Polish music, dishes

Polish cuisine

Polish cuisine is a mixture of Slavs and Germanic culinary traditions. It is rich in meat, especially chicken and pork, and winter vegetables , and spices, as well as different kinds of noodles the most notable of which are the pierogi....
and culture are quite common in the region.

Polish communities

After the proclamation of the Republic

Republic

A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch but in which the people have an impact on its government. The word originates from the Latin term res publica....
, the Brazilian government practically opened the doors of the country

Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
to the immigration

Immigration

While the movement of people has thought throughout history at various levels, modern immigration tourism are considered non-immigrants . Immigration that violates the immigration laws of the destination country is termed illegal immigration or undocumented immigration....
. The first years of the Republic, it was the period in that more entered immigrants in Brazil

Immigration to Brazil

Immigration has been a very important demography factor in the composition, structure and history of human population in Brazil, with all its attending factors and consequences in culture, Economic system, education, Race issues, etc....
. The Polish appeared in the statistics in significant number. This period was known in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
as "Brazilian fever". Important Polish communities appeared in several Brazilian states:

Paraná
Paraná (state)

Paran? is one of the States of Brazil of Brazil, located in the Southern Region, Brazil of the country, bordering Paraguay and Argentina. Cut by the Tropic of Capricorn, Paran? has what is left of the araucarias forest, one of the most important subtropical forests of the world....
: Eufrosina, Rio Claro, São Mateus, Santa Bárbara, Prudentópolis, Ivaí, Apucarana (current Cândido de Abreu), Castro, Piraí do Sul, Palmeira, Cruz Machado, and others.

Santa Catarina
Santa Catarina (state)

is a States of Brazil in southern Brazil with one of the highest standards of living in the country. Its capital is Florian?polis, which mostly lies on the Santa Catarina Island....
: Lucena (current Itaiópolis), Rio Vermelho, Massaranduba, Grã-Pará, Nova Galícia, and others.

Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul

is the southernmost States of Brazil of Brazil, and the State with the fourth highest Human Development Index . In Rio Grande do Sul is the most southern city of the country, Chu?, on Uruguayan border....
: Alfredo Chaves (current Veranópolis), Antônio Prado, Bento Gonçalves, Dom Feliciano, Mariana Pimentel, Ijuí, Guarani das Missões, Áurea, Gaurama, Jaguari, Erechim, and others.

São Paulo
São Paulo (state)

is a States of Brazil in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. It is named after Paul of Tarsus. S?o Paulo has the largest population, the biggest industrial park and the biggest economic production of the country....
: São Bernardo, Pariquera-açu, City of São Paulo, and others.

Espírito Santo
Espírito Santo

Esp?rito Santo is one of the states of Brazil of southeastern Brazil, often referred to by the abbreviation "ES". Its capital is Vit?ria and the largest city is Vila Velha....
: Águia Branca, Santa Leopoldina, and others.

Notable Polish Brazilians

Alexandre Herchcovitch
Alexandre Herchcovitch

Alexandre Herchcovitch is a world famous fashion designer....
Paulo Leminski
Paulo Leminski

Paulo Leminski Filho was a Brazilian poet and writer. He took pride in being of mixed Polish Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian descent.His first small-press collection came out in the late 1970s....
Jaime Lerner
Jaime Lerner

Jaime Lerner was governor of the state of Paran? , in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paran?, three times ....
Maurício Waldman
Mauricio Waldman

Maur?cio Waldman is a professor, social activist and pioneer of Brazilian environmentalist movement....
Edson Zwaricz
Edson Zwaricz

Edson Luis Zwaricz is a Mexico football of Poland-Brazilian descent, who currently plays for Socio ?guila. He moved to Mexico in 1993....
Henrique de Curitiba
Henrique de Curitiba

Zbigniew Henrique Morozowicz, known as Henrique de Curitiba , is a Brazilian composer of Poland descent. He chose the pseudonym "Henrique de Curitiba" to become known in Brazil and abroad under a more commonly and better pronounceable name....
Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Ambrosio

Alessandra Corine Ambr?sio is a Brazilian Model . Her last name is spelled Ambr?sio, but the Diacritic is omitted in her modeling work....
Xuxa
Xuxa

Xuxa is a Brazilian Grammy Awards Winner, television actress, singer and Children's television series host. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese language, Spanish language, and English language....
Angélica Ksyvickis
Angélica Ksyvickis

Ang?lica Ksyvickis is a Brazilian people television show host, singer and actress.Ang?lica's career began at 4, when she won a contest to choose Brazil's most beautiful child at a popular variety show hosted by Chacrinha....