- Have you ever imagined fiancés dancing dancing with a loaf
on their wedding day? This is the 'Korovai' dance,
the highlights of Ukrainian weddings.
The sweet bread is a symbol of love that should inhabit the life of the new couple.
- Hey, hey! This is Conor, the Language Tsar so in
this video today I'm going to talk about
Ukrainians in Brazil.
Yeah, you heard that right! There is a
Ukrainian community in the south of
Brazil and I actually went there to see
if it really existed. This is part of a
series of videos I'm doing about
minority European cultures in the south
of Brazil because last year in
January, February, March I went to Brazil
and actually sought out these places. I
read a little bit about them online.
I was a little bit skeptical whether they
existed or not. There wasn't much
evidence on YouTube or on other kind of
main search engines like Google and
especially. That was especially to about
Ukrainians in Brazil. Now if you watch
this channel regularly you'll know that I
spend a little bit of time every year in
Ukraine itself and I have never met
anyone there who even knows about this
diaspora. It's completely forgotten and I
read about it I little bit online and
said okay I found one little grainy
documentary. It seemed to talk to some people
in Ukrainian in the church there. I
thought okay is it really going to be
genuine or not? There's only one way to
find out!
I got on a bus and I went into the
interior of Brazil to Paraná state
which is right in the south and I went
to this town. I actually had a friend who lived
nearby so we ... I went to see her there and
then we took a car and we drove the extra
hour. Now the scenery around this town
was spectacular right. They had all these
waterfalls, really amazing natural parks.
So it was worth the trip out there in
any case. So how do things go when I
tried to speak Ukrainian? As a first
disclaimer at the time I didn't actually speak
Ukrainian. That's a project I've had this
year but I did speak Russian which is a
cognate language and it would allow me
to at least understand people, the
Ukrainian Brazilians if they spoke to me.
Now the town is called Prudentópolis.
It's located in you have five hours
drive into the interior of Paraná state/
That's the state in the very south of
Brazil and the reason for the
legacy of Ukrainian culture is that in
the late 19th century a lot of
immigrants fled Galicia which is part of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire and they
immigrated to Brazil and they were actually given
land by the Brazilian government. Now
there's some historical reasons why they
invited these immigrants from ...
Ukrainian-speaking immigrants to Brazil
and that was because it actually
previously had a war in the south of
Brazil. It wasn't as you know was a
little bit sparsely populated. They had
all these rivals, Spanish-speaking rival
countries around them who were independent.
Who ... you know they had a few wars amongst
those countries so Brazil was obviously
concerned that there might be either
secession or that they might get invaded
so they wanted to invite people in who
they thought would be loyal to the
Brazilian state and they were people
basically given land there. So I went to
Prudentópolis and my first ... I mean I
tried in the beginning to see people
speak Ukrainian with me. That didn't work
out so well in tourist office. The
guy looked Ukrainian but he didn't speak Ukrainian
then I went to local restaurant and the
owner said well I don't speak Ukrainian
but the waitresses here do. Now I spoke
to them in Russian and yeah they all spoke
Ukrainian back to me which is incredible
when you consider that the immigration was in
you know the very late 19th century and
they still speak it. So the town Prudentópolis
actually has a Ukrainian museum.
They have some Ukrainian traditional
festivals. There wasn't so much evidence
of it directly in the city itself and
just you know they're obviously a few
things a few buildings that look a
little bit Ukrainian but not really that
it's like Ukrainian town all all in all
but the museum was interesting. It went through
the whole history of Ukrainian immigration
as you'll see here the curator spoke to
me in Ukrainian so I'll let her take it away.
Where did I live? In Odessa, in the south.
- Ahh, so you have been to Odessa, you know Russian and only understand Ukrainian.
We speak the Ukrainian language here, which we learned from our parents
who came from Halychyna, from Austrian Halychyna to Brazil
And we feel very good here
because Brazil gave us all the rights, as for the citizens,
we may work here, we may have our own religion,
have our customs, dances, and we live very organized here
and our ancestors who came to Brazil, they tried to make the same life in Brazil as they had there (in Ukraine).
I am very pleased to welcome foreigners and tell them how Brazil welcomes
and accepts strangers and how it treats them.
- Very good. Thank you. - My pleasure!
- So that was actually my trip to Prudentópolis, fantastic
place just to check out with that beautiful
nature around it and there you can see
really it does have a Ukrainian
historical legacy right in the center
with like churches and a museum and
the Ukrainian language still living on. Now I
drove up to that waterfall you saw and
believe it or not people all the way up
there maybe 1 or 2 hours drive off you know
it didn't even have a proper asphalt
road to get up there from the side we
came. They actually had Ukrainian symbols
on their farm vehicles which was like
amazing right
so basically what happened when you see
what we found a church as well maybe
about an hour into the interior, a
Ukrainian church because the people
there have the same religion they tended
to market in that religion and they were
Ukrainian speaking right. So they come
from a denomination that's called the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and
based mainly today in the west of
Ukraine in Galicia itself which is that
region around Lviv which is where I
went to learn Ukrainian earlier this
year and because of that they maintained
these ties so if you grew up with
someone who speaks the same language
traditionally at home then you speak if it's more
likely that you'll pass it down to your children.
So that's what you see they're happening in
Prudentópolis and that's why the language
survives which is quite remarkable
because it's just a tiny tiny speck on
the map where people still speak
Ukrainian so very impressive. The other
city that I went to that had Ukrainian
culture in part was to Curitiba. Now
Curitiba is the capital of Paraná
state. It's a big city around two million
people I think and it has four ...
well I'm putting up three but there are four
parks and those four parts are all ... each
of them is dedicated to each of the
main immigrant groups who came to the
city and they were Italians,
Germans, Poles and Ukrainians so there's actually a
Ukrainian park there and the ... when I walked into
the shop they have it was like a little
souvenir shop, the guy there greeted me
in Ukrainian so I chatted a little bit with
him and this is what you have to say
about being Ukrainian in Brazil:
- Hi! Good evening!
Welcome! We are in the shop of St.Michael at the Ukrainian Memorial in Curitiba
- So there you go that's the kind of unusual and
definitely not the typical postcard view
of Brazil so you have all these kind of
slightly odd I guess legacy communities
in the south of Brazil they're not
really well-known in North America or
Europe for people who are planning to go to Brazil.
Everybody thinks about samba, beaches
dancing crazily partying for carnival.
They're all great and fantastic and
they're definitely very good reasons
along with the beautiful nature the
warmest ... I mean Brazilians are so
open to foreigners,
it's pretty incredible so they're all
great reasons to go but there is this
other side that's also quite interesting
that these other cultures have also
managed to continue and to thrive in the
south of Brazil so write me in the
comments section below the video if
you've discovered kind of a minority
legacy culture maybe where you're living,
maybe we're traveling did you get to
speak the local language there where the
traditions, were they genuine were
they a little bit kitsch? Have they been
maybe adopted quite a lot like for
example I would say that Irish Americans
have given like St. Patrick's Day and
all this Irish culture ... kind
of an additional boost and different
slant having you know developed away
from the homeland where they came
from in Ireland and you know it
developed in a different way
in cities like Boston or Chicago and New
York of course so that's given
something a little bit different. It doesn't
mean it's necessarily better or worse.
It's definitely different and yeah let
me know what your thoughts about these
cultures and how you can incorporate
them into your travel trips to maybe big
destinations like Brazil that people go
to for other reasons so it's 'до
побачення!' which is 'goodbye' Ukrainian and
'até logo' which is 'goodbye' in Portuguese from
Conor, the Language Tsar until the next video!
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