Immigration to South America

"Slavery aside"

Whereas the British took more ethnicites into their colonies such as the Irish, Welsh, Germans, Danes, Poles, Swedes, Norweigans, italians, Finns, Russians, Hungarians (unsure of numbers) the Southern American nations seemed to be reluctant to take in heavier numbers of various European ethnicites. Germans immigrated, yet it seems as though the Portuguese werent to keen on the Germans gaining to much Power esp in the South of Brazil. Im-unsure, i think i read once that German immigration was halted.
Most of the nations seem to be made up of either Portuguese (obviously) Spaniards, Italians (Did the majority come from the Nth of Sth ?) an limited amounts of Germans, Poles an English. I daresay the English were pre-occupied elsewhere though.

Was it policy to direct immigration more-so at Spain+Portugal to keep the power in their hands rather than let in other immigrants, was there even a direct immigration policy ? Even when it would have been obvious to settlers that to gain power an rise to a mighty power status that the populations of their colonies would have to drastically increase. Heres the thing when i look at South America i see a failure to create prosperous, powerful an wealthy colonies. Black slaves make up more of the population than the settlers an its the largest country in Sth America, an i dont quite understand how Brazilians of the past couldnt see this. Rather more interested in their wealth growing than a looming problem that could have in the past risen up taken over parts of the Americas (inc north Amer)
Argentina seems to be largely made up of italian, portuguese, Spaniards an Germans, how come its seems to be the only South American nation that isnt Largely split along racial lines. Infact the Southern cone region as i heard it reffered as seems to be the only positive area of South America (from what ive heard)

I just like to make this clear, i can completely understand why perhaps Europe wasnt put in a cup an poured into South America The original colonisers would have much preffered people of common language an ethnicity (Just like how the British colonised theirs) rather than any old Tom Dick an harry but what isnt clear is to why immigration was never stepped up either it be the Spanish crown sending families abroad or the locals of the colonies asking for more immigrants to make sure that numbers favour them. Oh yes i do realise that Spanish/Portuguese families were less likely to move abroad compared to some of their counterparts, but it doesnt seem logical that the Spanish/Portuguese crown threw away an oppurtunity to create a HUGE extension of "themselves"








Edited by think - 15-Apr-2007 at 07:31

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What I know is there are large numbers of Arabs, Syrians and Palestineans in Latin America, many of whom were former subdits of the Turkish Empire. However, I don't know if it was because discrimination or what, most of them where Catholics. Some Ortodox Catholics and others Romans. Curiously enough, the Palestineans of Latin America, that as I said were mainly Catholics, are relatively weathy in here (some are VERY wealthy) but they have not forgotten theirs brothers of Palestine at all. They usually collect money and help them in different humanitary actions.

Edited by pinguin - 18-Apr-2007 at 22:09

Well, Argentina is not really a third world country. They have an income not that far from the one of some countries from Southern Europe. They have nobel prizes, manufacturing, sport racing, advanced media, etc.