Originally Posted by
Tutankhamun
I was reading about his origin, he is 100% colonial and his family is from the west of the states of São Paulo and Paraná, well these regions (away from the coast) never had many slaves, and the ethnic background was basically Portuguese + Indigenous with few African slaves.
About its 15% native, I must remember that in the state of São Paulo, until the 18th century the people were bilingual, the people from São Paulo spoke Portuguese and Tupi-Guarani, many even spoke Tupi-Guarani as their first language, a case similar to that of Paraguay. For example, the expansion of Brazilian territory to the west is due to a people called ''bandeirantes'' who were bounty hunters/explorers who were practically mixed Portuguese and indigenous. Anyway, the region he comes from really has a very strong indigenous past. Another example, people usually associate European immigration to Brazil as something to reduce the black population, but they forget these mixed Portuguese and indigenous people who were in São Paulo and southern Brazil were also absorbed by European immigration.
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