Why Brazil has so many Japanese?

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[CountryballsExplained]

Dear returning viewers, new narration voice because the old TTS voice was lost after changing laptop. Apologies.

[genericname]

Fun fact: there are more lebanese in brazil than in lebanon

[tax]

as a third generation japanese-brazilian I can say that the japanese culture is not melting and disappearing here, brazilians are very good at integrating foreign culture into their own, specialy the food, Brasil is an interesting case talking about culture because most of what we have here is imported and mixed from other cultures and the country is too diverse because of it's verticality so you can't say that Brasil has 1 main unique culture, like people from the south have strong german influence, people from southeast have strong italian influence and people from the northeast have strong african influence, I think Brasil will never be melt and mix into only 1 culture

[erevinwinter]

Brazilians said "Come to Brazil" and the Japanese accepted being polite how they are.

[Owari-No-Kami]

Japanese Brazilian here, I'm a Sansei nikkei (三世日系人), my great grandfather intended to only spend a couple of years here, and come back to Japan (he literally registered my grandfather first as a Japanese citizen, and then as a Brazilian citizen), but he died of yellow fever, never fulfilling his plan to come back to his homeland.

On my end, I did experienced my fair share of prejudice in my own country, it isn't an everyday occurrence, but it's not uncommon for me to be seen as an outsider in my own country (especially in the countryside, where I live, because due to most Japanese Brazilians having risen above the social ladder in Brazilian society, many moved out of the countryside, where the immigration first started), in a family reunion of my wife's family (typical Brazilian family, with just white, black and pardo people, no Asians), one of her relatives asked if I knew how to speak Portuguese 😂😂

[ok_]

It's a bit hard to explain to non-brazillians why does brazil, a latin american country, has so much Italians, Germans and Japanese, and how thats have very little to do with ww2

[brnn]

As a Danish Brazilian I can confirm that I have nothing to do with my ancestry, I just consider myself Brazilian.

[leonardomarsola]

The assimilation in Brazil is so strong now that people from Japan can't even understand the recipes we're doing with sushi 😂

[ファンp]

Japan and Brazil have a deep connection, so we should cooperate more. Japan only looks at the United States and Asia, so we should look more at countries such as Brazil. Currently, China seems to be closer to Brazil than Japan.

[haengeltheknight]

As a Spanish-Brazilian, I must say, there are way too many countries Brazil accepted in their culture. Even Russians have some part in Brazil culture with the strogonoff.

[usuariogenerico]

As a Brazilian-Italian I can confirm 100% of this video is accurate.

It was only when I moved to Italy that I discovered: Culture is MUCH more relevant than race/ancestry. I am "genetically" half-Italian but 100% culturally Brazilian. Nobody sees me like Italian, and honestly, I love it.

It is just SO amazing that in my country integration was stimulated rather than segregation; To know that there's no "Brazilian fenotype" because of that (not talking about racism tough because, sadly, it still is a thing).

[isllamoura]

We Brazilians are very proud of being a multi-racial people.

[leandrotrinidad]

I'm brazilian with french, spanish, italian, basque, german, bulgarian and portuguese ancestors. As you can see this is a REALLY multicultural country!

[lonecom]

I grew up in Mogi das Cruzes, near São Paulo. There are a lot of Japanese people there. Some of my best friends are Japanese and my girlfriend is too. It totally affects the dynamic of the city and its culture.

[hoi]

I prefer your old AI and lifeless tone, it is more sacarstic though.

[Luanatica-m]

Não só com o Japão, mais com Itália, Portugal, Líbano, E Alemanha 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇱🇧🇵🇹🇮🇹🇩🇪♥️

[joseluispcr]

japan is a great part of brazilian culture today. Influenced martial arts, some cuisine and there is also in cities a region of japoneses. Like there is a big beuatifull square here in my city with a literal tori gate to heaven on it. They also conquered respect as very good at school specialy in math, and their method od doing math kumon is used today by some specialized schools of math. We also enjoy a lot of japonese culture in general, maybe a litle more than others

[metodoinstinto]

I'm an Italian-descendant Brazilian. I live in São Paulo, in a upper middle class neighborhood called Moema. It's a nice place to live in the city. There was a Donut Café here that was a good place to spend a couple of hours talking to your friends. I used to go there with my girlfriend and she noticed that the friggin place was ALWAYS packed full of Japanese people. My neighborhood is not known by its Japanese people, I seldom see one of them here. Nevertheless, the place always had a bunch of them. One night, I walked up to the manager and said: "can I ask you a question?", which he replied: "you're gonna ask me why there are so many Japanese people here, right?". I said: "yes, how did you know?", as he replied: "everyone asks us that." Then I said: "ok, so why do many Japanese people show up here so regularly?". He make a funny look and said quite theatrically: " I DO NOT KNOW". Apparently, it just happened for some unknown reason. Nobody could ever explain that.

[twls]

The city I live have a considerable influence of japanese. In 1930 around 250 japaneses founded a village a few miles from the city, since then they had impacted a lot the city, not much culturally but economically. A few weeks ago they organized the first japanese festival here, with the participation of a Japanese ambassador. I don't think their culture will die so soon.

[nicolasreinaldet]

Something I might add is that Japan and Italy had a more skiled labor force than Brazil at the time, specialy in the 20 century tail end of the imigration, so Japanese and Italian imigrants became important on Brazil industrialization.
My favorite example is that Brazil was, at least 4 years ago it was having, ever time record coffe plantations mostly becase of increase use of machinery that was developed by 2 companies, one founded by japanese imigrants and one founded by italian imigrants.