First aboriginal I met, at a bank.
She is from the State of Alagoas, one of the 27 states of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region.
Alagoas is one of the poorest states of Brazil.
Ten years ago, I visited the capital Maceio (mar-say-yor) nickname: "The Paradise of Waters". I remember the constant breeze from the sea.
| Brazilian Population, by ancestry, 1998[14] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ancestry | % of Whites | % of all races |
| Brazilian | 83.11% | 86.09% |
| Italian | 15.72% | 10.41% |
| Portuguese | 14.50% | 10.46% |
| Spanish | 6.42% | 4.40% |
| German | 5.51% | 3.54% |
| Indigenous | 4.80% | 6.64% |
| Black | 1.30% | 5.09% |
| Arab | 0.72% | 0.48% |
| Japanese | 0.62% | 1.34% |
| African | 0.58% | 2.06% |
| Jewish | 0.25% | 0.20% |
| Others | 4.05% | 2.81% |
| Total | 137.58% | 133.52% |
Notice that the total is higher than 100% because of multiple claims of ascendants from different nations in the answers.
Estimates say that there are 2.5 to 3.0 million people of Japanese descent in Brazil, who are mostly concentrated in two states: São Paulo and Paraná, but smaller communities are found in the entire territory of the country. Brazil has the largest population of Japanese descent outside of Japan.
74% of Brazilian are Roman Catholics (about 130 million), highest in the world.
