| Birget, a student on city planning was
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| | In fact, these lands were in the middle
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| telling her experiences in Cuba. Her
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| | of big forests and the first Germans had
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| experiences in the Caribbean Island were
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| | been abandoned by the Brazilian
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| quiet strange. While she was narrating
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| | Government. The first years were not
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| some of her observations, my discussion
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| | easy. Many Germans died of tropical
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| with walker came to mind.
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| | diseases, others left the colony to find
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| Walker had a marvelous experience in
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| | a better life elsewhere.
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| Belize and other Latin American countries
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| | In fact, the German colony of Sao
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| with German descendant Latin Americans.
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| | Leopoldo was a disaster. Nevertheless, in
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| There are German descendant minorities in
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| | the next years another wave of 8, 000
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| almost every South American and Central
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| | Germans arrived to Sao Leopoldo, and then
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| American countries including Argentina,
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| | the colony started to develop, and the
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| Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador,
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| | immigrants established the town of Novo
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| Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
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| | Hamburgo (New Hamburg). From Sao Leopoldo
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| and Venezuela.
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| | and Novo Hamburgo the German immigrants
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| In the eighteenth century some isolated
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| | spread into other areas of Rio Grande do
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| and small groups of German immigrants
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| | Sul, mainly close to spring of rivers.
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| came to Latin America mainly from
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| | All the region of Vale dos Sinos has been
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| Germany, but also from Switzerland,
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| | populated by Germans.
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| Austria and Russia. Though the US was the
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| | During the 1830's and part of 1840's
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| main destination for immigration in the
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| | German immigration was interrupted due to
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| 19th century, the immigration to Latin
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| | the "War of the Farrapos" in Brazil. The
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| America also was significant for various
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| | immigration restarted after 1845 with the
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| other political and economic reasons.
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| | creation of new colonies. The most
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| Ninety percent of them came to Latin
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| | important ones were Blumenau in 1850 and
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| America mainly for Brazil, Argentina,
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| | Joinville in 1851, both in Santa Catarina
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| Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile.
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| | state and attracted thousands of German
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| When the first group of Germans arrived
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| | immigrants to the region. Some of the
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| in 1824 to Sao Leopoldo, in the State of
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| | mass influx was due to Revolutions of
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| Rio Grande do Sul in the southern Brazil,
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| | 1848 in the German states.
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| after 4 months of traveling, there were
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| | In the last third of the nineteenth
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| 39 people, being 33 Lutherans and 6
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| | century immigration to Brazil became so
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| Catholics. They found a country with a
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| | difficult with the "Heydtschen Reskript"
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| climate, vegetation and culture very
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| | (1859) and they started to migrate
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| different from those of Germany. Southern
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| | towards Argentina. In the 1880's and
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| Brazil was a land of gauchos, the cattle
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| | 1890's German immigration to Latin
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| herders who used, and still live, in the
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| | America once again increased with the
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| Pampas region of Southern Cone.
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| | thirty percenatage of the total
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| In the next decades, however, waves of
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| | emigration from Germany towards Latin
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| Germanic immigrants arrived to many areas
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| | America.
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| of the Southern Brazil. They mostly
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| | Until the end of the 19th century 122
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| settled in rural areas called colonies.
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| | German colonies were created in Rio
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| These colonies had been created by the
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| | Grande do Sul, and many others in Santa
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| Brazilian government, and the lands were
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| | Catarina, Parana, Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais
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| distributed between the immigrants. They
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| | and Rio de Janeiro. Germans had
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| had to construct their own houses and
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| | established the first middle-class
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| cultivate the land.
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| | population of Brazil, in a country
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| Germans came to Brazil to work as farmers
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| | divided between slaves and their masters.
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| because there were many lands and job
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| | Germans immigrants in Brazil were the
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| opportunities. The Brazilian government
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| | fourth largest immigrant community to
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| had promised large lands to attract the
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| | settle in the country, after Portuguese,
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| immigrants, where they could settle with
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| | Italians and Spaniards.
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| their families and colonize the region.
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