This post is part of the Team Challenge between Connect Live 2019 Attendees, proposed by @ermest. Each member charged to write about a theme, but everyone contributed. In this post I describe the diversity of our country. This is one of the #teambrazil posts from this challenge, and you can find our main post here.
When I was still living in Italy and used to imagine a place where I could feel complete, I never thought this place would be Brazil.
My idea of Brazil was very restricted to a tropical environment and I used to think about its population as one specific type, mostly what I could see when watching football (and I donât even like football)
Then the day arrived and because of my scholarship I finally came to the city of Sao Paulo to study here for a few months⌠This was in 2015 and since then Iâve been dreaming to live in Brazil! In 2017 this dream became true 
I could never expect such a cultural diversity and to see so many different faces and colors living, sometime in harmony sometimes not, in the same place!
I had to understand what was going on and why I didnât know anything about, none told me anything, but this was and is the most diverse place on earth!
Everything started in 1500 when the Portuguese explorer Cabral⌠No itâs a joke, this was not when everything started eheh.
Everything started about 50.000 years ago probably when the first immigrants came to live in this area of the world and since then they never stopped to arrive. Indeed weâre all migrants, since the beginning of time and we all come from different places and go to different places at some time of the history for different reasons. Letâs see how is the situation now 
Tupi, Tupi-Guarani, Tamoios, Tupiniquins and many many other ethnicities have always been living in Brazil, before than anyone, and not without problems they still live here, as independent nations as well as mixed with others.
Until slavery was finally abolished (1888) about 5 millions between Yorubas and Bantu where trade as slaves to Brazil. Today Brazil is the biggest country outside africa for black population! This is Djamila TaĂs Ribeiro dos Santos, a Brazilian Black feminist, journalist, and philosopher
When slavery was abolished, the country opened the borders to immigrants to replace the lack of workers. Between others, like Germans, Portuguese, Spanish and others, Italians came in huge groups running away from the poverty of the âUnified Italian Kingdomâ.
Today about 35% of the Brazilian population has at least one Italian ancestor for family.
For the same reason, in 1908 also Japanese start coming. Today Sao Paulo has the biggest Japanese community outside Japan, more than 1.5 million live here!
Nowadays in Brazil we have also Syrians, Armenians, Lebanese, Bolivians, Venezuelans, Haitians, Congolese, Koreans, Chinese, Americans, French, Dutch and Iâm surely forgetting many many others.
All this diversity was represented in 1933 by the Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral in a incredible painting called: OperĂĄrios (Workers)
