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The original Amerindian population of Brazil (between 3-5 million) has in large part been exterminated or assimilated into the Portuguese population. Since the beginning of Brazil's [[colonisation]], intermarriage between the Portuguese and Native Brazilians has been common. Today, there are 700,000 natives in Brazil, composing less than 1% of the national population.
Brazil has a large black population, descended from [[African]] [[slaves]] brought to the country from the 16th century until the 19th century. More than 3 million Africans were brought to Brazil until the end of slave trafficking in 1850. They were mainly from [[Angola]], [[Nigeria]], [[Benin]], [[Togo]], [[Ghana]], the [[Ivory Coast]] and [[São Tomé e Príncipe]]. The African population in Brazil has mixed substantially with the Portuguese, resulting in a large [[mixed-race]] population.Despite being in a smaller number in the first centuries, the [[Portuguese people|Lusitanian elite]] kept its preponderant ascendancy.That African superiority in number would change only in the XIX century with the dense settlement of large immigration waves that was yet to come from the West Europe in special, but also from the East Europe and the Levant in Middle East.According to the [[IBGE]] in the present day 42% of Brazil's population is African descendant.And the partial African ancestry has a predominant number while the strict African ancestry is in a lower number in comparation to the multiracial people.
Beginning in the 19th century, the Brazilian government stimulated European immigration to substitute for the manpower of the former slaves. The first non-Portuguese immigrants to settle in Brazil were German, in [[1824]]. In [[1869]] the first Polish immigrants settled in Brazil. However, strong European immigration to Brazil began only after [[1875]], when immigration from Italy, Portugal and [[Spain]] increased. According to the [http://www.memorialdoimigrante.sp.gov.br Memorial do Imigrante], between [[1870]] and [[1953]], Brazil attracted nearly 5.5 million immigrants approximately 1,550,000 [[Italo-Brazilian|Italians]], 1,470,000 Portuguese, 650,000 Spaniards, 210,000 Germans, 190,000 Japanese, 120,000 Poles and 650,000 of many other nationalities.
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Brazil is home to the largest [[Italian people|Italian]] population outside of Italy, with 25 million Italians and [[Italo-Brazilian|Italian-descended Brazilians]]. The Italian immigrants were predominantly from [[Veneto]] and other provinces in northern Italy. Diverse Italian cultural customs were spread and assimilated in the whole nation, as well as Italian expressions, terms and words were absorbed into the national vernacular. The dense Italian presence in the state of São Paulo and its capital influenced the speech (prosodia) of the regional accent.
The country is also home to the second largest [[German people|German]] population outside Germany. Brazil has 12 million [[German-Brazilians]]. [[Hunsrückisch]] and [[Pomeranians]] are some of the most prominent groups. Mostly of them live in the South of Brazil, but Germans also settled in other southeastern states, as also the Northeast and Central-West regions. The largest European ethnic groups are in order the [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], the [[Italian people|Italians]], the [[German people|Germans]] and the [[Spanish people|Spaniards]] followed by the group composed of [[Slavs]] such as [[Poles]] and [[Ukrainians]].Other smaller groups compose the total number of European descendants such as [[Hungarians]], [[Lituanians]], [[Romanians]], [[French people|French]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]], [[Finnish people|Finnish]], [[Germanic]] [[Scandinavians]] (specially [[Sweden people|Swedes]]), [[Armenians]], [[British people|British]] (specially [[English people|English]] and [[Scottish people|Scottish]]) and [[Irish people|Irish]].
The Jewish population in Brazil is about 150,000 to close 200,000 [[Jews]].Mostly [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazim]]. São Paulo is home to the largest Jewish community in Brazil.
Brazil is also home to the largest [[Lebanese]] community in the world, roughly 8 million. Actually Brazil has the largest [[Levante]] [[Arabs]] community outside those countries. Almost
Starting in the early 20th century, Brazil also received a large number of Asians: [[Korean people|Korean]], [[Han Chinese|Chinese]], [[Republic of China|Taiwan]]ese, and specially [[Japanese people|Japanese]] immigrants. The Japanese are the largest [[East Asian]] minority in Brazil, and [[Japanese-Brazilians]] are the largest Japanese population outside of Japan (1.5 million).
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