man, I'm Ukrainian and I recently had some interactions with Brazilians, and this led me to learning more about Brazil. I was shocked to learn about this community. Thank you very much for showing it all, I love your bald and bankrupt inspiration and thanks a lot for your interest in it as well!
Hi! Brazilian with Ukrainian descent here! The decorated eggs are called Pessankas and they are an art form, of orthodox origin. As they were forbidden in Ukr during communist rule, making Pessankas in Brazil was seen as a form of keeping the art alive. Nowadays they are also very turistic, that`s why you see so many in connection with Ukraine in Brazil.
7:33 Actually that water reservoir is probably connected to the city water mains and it's not filled by a truck. All buildings in Brazil are required by code to have a reservoir able to supply water for at least 24h, with a minimum volume of 500 liters. That makes the whole water distribution system able to operate with lower pressures, which results in less water wastage to any potential leaks in the system (less pressure = less volume per hour lost to potential leakage). The building water pressure is then supplied by the raised tank. It also serves as an emergency water contingency for 24h, in case the supply is interrupted for any reason. So it's common to hide water tanks in roofs, since it's elevated to provide the pressure (in this case for the bathrooms), but in a way that it remains accessible for maintenance and periodic cleaning. They probably could have done a better job of hiding it, but went with a low cost solution and didn't bother that much with aesthetics up close. Also too bad the church was closed at that day. Normally you can enter it and there are more information about the history of the immigrants on the walls, as well as some artifacts like a lot of Pysankas (decorated eggs) and some other things.
Yeah I still don’t understand the egg thing😂 same with the museum being closed too. But thanks for explaining the water situation I’ve been confused about this for a long time this explains a lot. I searched some on the internet but really couldn’t find much information on the topic at all so again thanks for that
@@LewisWirth In Curitiba a lot of museums and parks close on Mondays for maintenance. They used to close on Sundays (for some), but they changed to Mondays to cater to weekend tourists. But there's still some things that close on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. In smaller cities most thigs should probably close on weekends and holidays, since they tend to not have as many visitors. It's normally a good idea to check on Google Maps or a government page beforehand to be sure. But even then they can still not be updated sometimes, specially in small towns.
Cool to see this series of videos from Brazil. I started making similar videos 7 years ago but ultimately decided to focus on Ukraine etc. 👍🏻 In the countryside around Prudentópolis, there are lots of Ukrainian churches that are quite striking and many people spoke in an older dialect of Ukrainian. 🇺🇦
@@khersonskiyarbuzkhersonski2460 Conor did not say in his comment that they are Ukrainians, he only noted that many people spoke the older dialect of Ukrainian language
Since you're visiting colonies in Brazil, you should visit Penedos, a region in the city of Itatiaia, in Rio de Janeiro. The area was once a finnish colony and there are still remains from the finnish culture. I recommend you visit there, I've never seen foreign people recording videos about that place
No way that sounds amazing. I looked it up and it looks pretty legit there's pictures on google maps with their language on buildings and so on. I've been trying to find really any Noridic culture for a long time with not genuine success so far. I found a few cities in Argentina that didn't look very promising
@@felipemonteiro6546 nope. I looked for Swedish colonies along the other Nordic ones but couldn’t find anything myself at the time. Only a few things in Argentina that didn’t look very substantial. I looked it up it looks extremely small. I couldn’t find any info on it just the location and a few pictures of trees and grass. Does anyone still speak Swedish there I actually visited garibaldi it’s so close 🤯 But I’m super open for more suggestions anything give me reasons to come back or things in other countries. I already have a long list of ideas myself
@@LewisWirth You were in Prudentopolis, very close by is the district of Entre Rios, which is a colony of Danube Swabians, who were expelled from Eastern Europe because of the WWII, it is interesting because it must be the only German colony founded in Brazil after the Second World War.
At this point I feel like in southern and southeastern states almost every city is “famous” for its waterfalls, I’ve heard that on so many occasions 😂. They also always look confused when I tell people that I’m visiting for the local culture and not something like waterfalls
4:37 I could be wrong here, but I don't think the 1 is missing. The museum seems to celebrate a thousand years (one millennium) since Vladmir the Great converted to Christianity in 988.
That could be. It’s hard to see with the alignment but I think there’s a good chance that you’re right. I didn’t know the significance of that date so didn’t infer anything from that
The descendants of Ukrainians in Brazil today constitute a community of more than 500 thousand people and are mostly located - about 80%, that is, more than 400 thousand - in Paraná state. The largest concentration of Ukrainians is in Curitiba, with approximately 55,000 people (about 3% of the local population), but the largest local percentage occurs in the Municipality of Prudentópolis, where in a population of more than 50 thousand, the inhabitants of Ukrainian origin total more than 38 thousand, that is, about 75% of the local population, followed by Mallet, where the percentage of Ukrainian descent is around 60%, Paulo Frontin - around 55%, Ivaí and Antônio Olinto - around 45% .
Well, I don't know this town, but looking at those Crosses in the church, I'd say that is a Roman Catholic Church. The Greek Orthodox cross has three horizontal crossbeams, with the bottom beam slanted downwards. The slanted bottom beam is said to represent the scales of justice, with the points indicating the path to Heaven or Hell. Because at the time of big immigration to Brasil, 1850/1930, the brazilian government (ordered by the Church) used to give preferences to the Catholic immigrants, in order not to create "problems"! Thats why you see Italians, Germans, Austrians, Polish, Ukranians and a few more Catholic people that migrated to Brasil in that time.
Ahh that explains it, yeah I was a bit confused about this and said a lot more wrong in my recordings then you can even find in the end result because I had to cut out a lot with this video
Absolutely not. If it were true the preference for Catholic immigrants, we wouldn't have Jews and a large number of Maronite Christians from Lebanon and Syria immigrating to Brazil since the 19th century. Indeed, Brazil was home to one of the largest diasporas of Lebanese and Syrian Christians in the world, who fled persecution from the Ottoman Empire. Just for the record, many German immigrants were Lutherans from the very beginning. Almost 100% of Americans who immigrated to Brazil in the second half of the 19th century because of the Civil War were Protestants. They were allowed to have their churches, but they couldn't look like traditional churches because that was exclusive to Catholics. It was only toward the end of the Brazilian monarchy (near the end of the 19th century) when the separation of Church and State occurred, that Protestants (Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc.) or Orthodox and other Christians were permitted to build churches with towers, bells, and similar features.
Thank you very much Lewis Wirth for these videos in some brazilian places that I, being a brazilian, have never visited before. One day maybe I'll go and visit. But I visited many places in your country, it is or used to be, a bautiful place to live , but, unfortunaly, is being "invaded" by foreigners with diffferent cultures and religion, with the intention of "ocupying", taking over, occupation and religious convertion. Bedankt and BRAVO GEERT WILDERS , he's trying to save the Dutch people and culture, hope he's sucessfull !!
We'll if you want to get political, I must say I don't see Geert Wilders or any similar politicians in other western countries as a very genuine person. My expectation is that what they will try to do is to make the whole immigration debate about Israel and Palestine to help the very large lack of support for Israel that the state needs to survive. We will see if I'm wrong or right on that but as things are now I see these politicians just like Bolsonaro and Milei as mostly controlled opposition. And let's see if they can prove me wrong
In the last century, Brazil received a lot of immigration from various parts of the world. The Europeans concentrated in the south and southeast of the country. In the state of Paraná, as you saw, there were several Ukrainians and Poles. Now in October, several cities here in the south celebrate Oktoberfest. Come to Blumenau, Santa Catarina, which is the second largest in the world after Munich.
I’ve already filmed videos about Germans in Brazil but I haven’t had time to finish editing them. I have considered visiting again for Oktoberfest but my first priority is editing which takes an incredible amount of time
@@LewisWirthIf you go to the smaller cities of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and also Sanda Catarina you will see populations of German descendants who speak dialects. You will also find the most very blond people with blue eyes, but I think only in those interiors... It is worth knowing Brazil as a whole, in the state of Espírito Santo, there is the most Italian city in Brazil Santa Teresa.
@@dolydoly5679 São Paulo probably is the city with more italian descendants though. Maybe not in proportion to the whole population, but in absolute numbers. Rio de Janeiro doesn't have as many as the southern states, São Paulo and Espirito Santo, but they're very concentrated on the mountain regions on the countryside(Teresópolis, Petrópolis, Nova Friburgo...).
@@LewisWirth Yes, a place for priests in a small town is "close enough" to where the pope, the actual freaking leader of the entire church all over the world, lives. Yep, makes perfect sense.
Ahh interesting sadly I didn’t have the means to visit those and I don’t speak Ukrainian but that’s nice to hear very interesting also makes sense that most would be left in the small towns
Yes, what would you need it for. Every channel is supposed to have an email linkt to it by default. If you have a good reason I think you should be able to find it. What do you want my email for?
@@DawahAsia alright just check out the email on my channel page. Where it says my socials every channel has a page like that and most show the email publicly. I do atleast
I'm from Prudentópolis, that's a great video, and I will make some corrections, first that you insist a lot on the Soviet Union (0:10, 0:42), but no, the Ukrainians came much earlier here to the city, and they came from Austria-Hungary, not Russia, also there is no orthodox church in Prudentópolis (1:13, 2:16), all the Ukrainian churches are Greek Catholic, as the Ukrainians that came here were all from the Galicia region in western Ukraine, Austria-Hungary at that time, and that region is Catholic, another thing is the Taras Shevchenko statue (4:01), he was not the guy who started immigration here, he's actually a famous Ukrainian poet which was never in Brazil. I like when people come here from other places for tourism, my city is very rich, culturally, and It's good to know we are having international tourists here.
I’m glad you liked it. But I must say I find it one of my lesser videos. I didn’t have much time when I was there because there was no affordable accommodation at the time and I did a little bit of a messy job filming which made it a bit of a mess to edit too. I think that the end result is pretty decent with that in mind but some of the corrections you mentioned I also later found out unable to correct them. Some others I removed. But you also mentioned some things that I didn’t know about. Thanks for your comment mate
I'm Ukraininan living in Austria and I know a lot about Austria-Hungary but I was astonished when I learned about Ukrainian immigration to Brazil !!!!!! Hope to visit it soon!!!
man, I'm Ukrainian and I recently had some interactions with Brazilians, and this led me to learning more about Brazil. I was shocked to learn about this community. Thank you very much for showing it all, I love your bald and bankrupt inspiration and thanks a lot for your interest in it as well!
Hi! Brazilian with Ukrainian descent here! The decorated eggs are called Pessankas and they are an art form, of orthodox origin. As they were forbidden in Ukr during communist rule, making Pessankas in Brazil was seen as a form of keeping the art alive. Nowadays they are also very turistic, that`s why you see so many in connection with Ukraine in Brazil.
Interesting thanks for the info. If only the museum was open I might’ve known this but I’m glad you were able to explain it like this
7:33 Actually that water reservoir is probably connected to the city water mains and it's not filled by a truck.
All buildings in Brazil are required by code to have a reservoir able to supply water for at least 24h, with a minimum volume of 500 liters. That makes the whole water distribution system able to operate with lower pressures, which results in less water wastage to any potential leaks in the system (less pressure = less volume per hour lost to potential leakage). The building water pressure is then supplied by the raised tank. It also serves as an emergency water contingency for 24h, in case the supply is interrupted for any reason.
So it's common to hide water tanks in roofs, since it's elevated to provide the pressure (in this case for the bathrooms), but in a way that it remains accessible for maintenance and periodic cleaning. They probably could have done a better job of hiding it, but went with a low cost solution and didn't bother that much with aesthetics up close.
Also too bad the church was closed at that day. Normally you can enter it and there are more information about the history of the immigrants on the walls, as well as some artifacts like a lot of Pysankas (decorated eggs) and some other things.
Yeah I still don’t understand the egg thing😂 same with the museum being closed too. But thanks for explaining the water situation I’ve been confused about this for a long time this explains a lot. I searched some on the internet but really couldn’t find much information on the topic at all so again thanks for that
@@LewisWirth In Curitiba a lot of museums and parks close on Mondays for maintenance. They used to close on Sundays (for some), but they changed to Mondays to cater to weekend tourists. But there's still some things that close on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
In smaller cities most thigs should probably close on weekends and holidays, since they tend to not have as many visitors.
It's normally a good idea to check on Google Maps or a government page beforehand to be sure. But even then they can still not be updated sometimes, specially in small towns.
Very good a foirgner is showing cultural status of Brazil, usually people don't give up of the food, beach, party layer , well done very good stuff
Yeah I'm not a big fan of loud parties and alcohol personally so I came to Brazil for much more unexpected reasons
Cool to see this series of videos from Brazil. I started making similar videos 7 years ago but ultimately decided to focus on Ukraine etc. 👍🏻
In the countryside around Prudentópolis, there are lots of Ukrainian churches that are quite striking and many people spoke in an older dialect of Ukrainian. 🇺🇦
They are no longer Ukrainians, they are already Brazilians.
@@khersonskiyarbuzkhersonski2460 Conor did not say in his comment that they are Ukrainians, he only noted that many people spoke the older dialect of Ukrainian language
Since you're visiting colonies in Brazil, you should visit Penedos, a region in the city of Itatiaia, in Rio de Janeiro.
The area was once a finnish colony and there are still remains from the finnish culture.
I recommend you visit there, I've never seen foreign people recording videos about that place
No way that sounds amazing.
I looked it up and it looks pretty legit there's pictures on google maps with their language on buildings and so on.
I've been trying to find really any Noridic culture for a long time with not genuine success so far.
I found a few cities in Argentina that didn't look very promising
@@LewisWirthHave you ever heard of Vila Jansen in the municipality of Farroupilha in Rio Grande do Sul? It is a Swedish colony.
@@felipemonteiro6546 nope. I looked for Swedish colonies along the other Nordic ones but couldn’t find anything myself at the time. Only a few things in Argentina that didn’t look very substantial. I looked it up it looks extremely small. I couldn’t find any info on it just the location and a few pictures of trees and grass. Does anyone still speak Swedish there I actually visited garibaldi it’s so close 🤯 But I’m super open for more suggestions anything give me reasons to come back or things in other countries. I already have a long list of ideas myself
@@LewisWirth I don't know if anyone still speaks swedish, but there are swedish buildings and a kind of museum, but it's not a touristic place.
@@LewisWirth You were in Prudentopolis, very close by is the district of Entre Rios, which is a colony of Danube Swabians, who were expelled from Eastern Europe because of the WWII, it is interesting because it must be the only German colony founded in Brazil after the Second World War.
I went to Prudentópolis a few months ago. This region is famous for its giant waterfalls (some of which are only open to visitors on weekends).
At this point I feel like in southern and southeastern states almost every city is “famous” for its waterfalls, I’ve heard that on so many occasions 😂. They also always look confused when I tell people that I’m visiting for the local culture and not something like waterfalls
4:37
I could be wrong here, but I don't think the 1 is missing. The museum seems to celebrate a thousand years (one millennium) since Vladmir the Great converted to Christianity in 988.
That could be. It’s hard to see with the alignment but I think there’s a good chance that you’re right. I didn’t know the significance of that date so didn’t infer anything from that
The descendants of Ukrainians in Brazil today constitute a community of more than 500 thousand people and are mostly located - about 80%, that is, more than 400 thousand - in Paraná state. The largest concentration of Ukrainians is in Curitiba, with approximately 55,000 people (about 3% of the local population), but the largest local percentage occurs in the Municipality of Prudentópolis, where in a population of more than 50 thousand, the inhabitants of Ukrainian origin total more than 38 thousand, that is, about 75% of the local population, followed by Mallet, where the percentage of Ukrainian descent is around 60%, Paulo Frontin - around 55%, Ivaí and Antônio Olinto - around 45% .
They are no longer Ukrainians, they are already Brazilians.
@@khersonskiyarbuzkhersonski2460We already know
Sou de inacio martins pr minha parte de pai e descendente ucraniano
tem uma pequena comunidade aqui.
its rare to see my city being cited, antonio olinto is very unknow
What an interesting place 🇧🇷🤍🇺🇦
Learning so much from you about Brazil and I am Brazilian lol
Thanks mate that’s great to hear and I’m working on many more videos
Well, I don't know this town, but looking at those Crosses in the church, I'd say that is a Roman Catholic Church. The Greek Orthodox cross has three horizontal crossbeams, with the bottom beam slanted downwards. The slanted bottom beam is said to represent the scales of justice, with the points indicating the path to Heaven or Hell. Because at the time of big immigration to Brasil, 1850/1930, the brazilian government (ordered by the Church) used to give preferences to the Catholic immigrants, in order not to create "problems"! Thats why you see Italians, Germans, Austrians, Polish, Ukranians and a few more Catholic people that migrated to Brasil in that time.
Ahh that explains it, yeah I was a bit confused about this and said a lot more wrong in my recordings then you can even find in the end result because I had to cut out a lot with this video
Absolutely not. If it were true the preference for Catholic immigrants, we wouldn't have Jews and a large number of Maronite Christians from Lebanon and Syria immigrating to Brazil since the 19th century. Indeed, Brazil was home to one of the largest diasporas of Lebanese and Syrian Christians in the world, who fled persecution from the Ottoman Empire. Just for the record, many German immigrants were Lutherans from the very beginning. Almost 100% of Americans who immigrated to Brazil in the second half of the 19th century because of the Civil War were Protestants. They were allowed to have their churches, but they couldn't look like traditional churches because that was exclusive to Catholics. It was only toward the end of the Brazilian monarchy (near the end of the 19th century) when the separation of Church and State occurred, that Protestants (Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc.) or Orthodox and other Christians were permitted to build churches with towers, bells, and similar features.
8:00 very cool flag
I went there for hiking/trekking and huting for waterfalls. I loved the place (not so much the food).
Thank you very much Lewis Wirth for these videos in some brazilian places that I, being a brazilian, have never visited before. One day maybe I'll go and visit. But I visited many places in your country, it is or used to be, a bautiful place to live , but, unfortunaly, is being "invaded" by foreigners with diffferent cultures and religion, with the intention of "ocupying", taking over, occupation and religious convertion. Bedankt and BRAVO GEERT WILDERS , he's trying to save the Dutch people and culture, hope he's sucessfull !!
We'll if you want to get political, I must say I don't see Geert Wilders or any similar politicians in other western countries as a very genuine person.
My expectation is that what they will try to do is to make the whole immigration debate about Israel and Palestine to help the very large lack of support for Israel that the state needs to survive.
We will see if I'm wrong or right on that but as things are now I see these politicians just like Bolsonaro and Milei as mostly controlled opposition.
And let's see if they can prove me wrong
In the last century, Brazil received a lot of immigration from various parts of the world. The Europeans concentrated in the south and southeast of the country. In the state of Paraná, as you saw, there were several Ukrainians and Poles. Now in October, several cities here in the south celebrate Oktoberfest. Come to Blumenau, Santa Catarina, which is the second largest in the world after Munich.
I’ve already filmed videos about Germans in Brazil but I haven’t had time to finish editing them. I have considered visiting again for Oktoberfest but my first priority is editing which takes an incredible amount of time
@@LewisWirth OK
@@LewisWirthIf you go to the smaller cities of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and also Sanda Catarina you will see populations of German descendants who speak dialects. You will also find the most very blond people with blue eyes, but I think only in those interiors... It is worth knowing Brazil as a whole, in the state of Espírito Santo, there is the most Italian city in Brazil Santa Teresa.
@@dolydoly5679 São Paulo probably is the city with more italian descendants though. Maybe not in proportion to the whole population, but in absolute numbers.
Rio de Janeiro doesn't have as many as the southern states, São Paulo and Espirito Santo, but they're very concentrated on the mountain regions on the countryside(Teresópolis, Petrópolis, Nova Friburgo...).
Not last century, but 19th century.
❤ prundentopolis é Beatiful
The man says it's a residence for priests, not for "popes".
Close enough
@@LewisWirth Yes, a place for priests in a small town is "close enough" to where the pope, the actual freaking leader of the entire church all over the world, lives. Yep, makes perfect sense.
@@PedroxCarvalho 🤫
the real comunities are in the countryside. the small vilages and all that;
Ahh interesting sadly I didn’t have the means to visit those and I don’t speak Ukrainian but that’s nice to hear very interesting also makes sense that most would be left in the small towns
they even have soviet style flats
The people immigrated there before the existence of the Soviet Union though but still they kind of look like it bus so do almost all flats
Do you have an email?
Yes, what would you need it for. Every channel is supposed to have an email linkt to it by default. If you have a good reason I think you should be able to find it. What do you want my email for?
@@LewisWirth I want to ask you about something
@@DawahAsia alright just check out the email on my channel page. Where it says my socials every channel has a page like that and most show the email publicly. I do atleast
@LewisWirth there's no email just your tiktok and instagram
Mostly of them came during Habsburgs not soviets. And are greek catholic not orthodox.
Yes you’re right
I'm from Prudentópolis, that's a great video, and I will make some corrections, first that you insist a lot on the Soviet Union (0:10, 0:42), but no, the Ukrainians came much earlier here to the city, and they came from Austria-Hungary, not Russia, also there is no orthodox church in Prudentópolis (1:13, 2:16), all the Ukrainian churches are Greek Catholic, as the Ukrainians that came here were all from the Galicia region in western Ukraine, Austria-Hungary at that time, and that region is Catholic, another thing is the Taras Shevchenko statue (4:01), he was not the guy who started immigration here, he's actually a famous Ukrainian poet which was never in Brazil. I like when people come here from other places for tourism, my city is very rich, culturally, and It's good to know we are having international tourists here.
I’m glad you liked it. But I must say I find it one of my lesser videos. I didn’t have much time when I was there because there was no affordable accommodation at the time and I did a little bit of a messy job filming which made it a bit of a mess to edit too. I think that the end result is pretty decent with that in mind but some of the corrections you mentioned I also later found out unable to correct them. Some others I removed. But you also mentioned some things that I didn’t know about. Thanks for your comment mate
@@LewisWirth thanks, that was a great video, it was indeed decent, everyone makes mistakes.
I'm Ukraininan living in Austria and I know a lot about Austria-Hungary but I was astonished when I learned about Ukrainian immigration to Brazil !!!!!! Hope to visit it soon!!!
Slava Ukraini!
Yes one can see they are still very east europeans because they don't smile 😅😅
Hahaha yeah 😬