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Native Brazilians from the tribes Assurini, Tapirajé, Kaiapó, Kapirapé, Rikbaktsa and Bororo-Boe.
Afro-Brazilians: They come to Brazil as slaves in the colonial era( from late 1500s to the 1860s). In the 1800s, Brazil had the largest single population of African and creole people in any one colony in America, due to slavery. Now, 50,6 % of Brazil ´ s population is afrodescendant.
Famous Afro-Brazilians: Pelé, Anderson Silva and Seu Jorge.
Asian-Brazilians: The vast majority of Asian Brazilians have origins in Japan, which first arrived in 1908. Currently, the Japanese-Brazilian population is estimated at 1.4 million