Why do so many Lebanese people live in Brazil and South

>>69245206
Business or something, i don't even know. Every Leb i know is a millionaire and has a hot blonde wife of German ancestry.

>>69245234
This, Carlos Slim is a Leb.

>>69245206
Most lebanese here live in Margarita island, they own a lot of businesses and smoke from a strange large pipe all day.

>>69245206
They came here (atleast to Colombia) after WW1

>>69245206
>you will never get bullied by extremely snobby lebanese girls

>>69245336
Salma Hayek is a leb too.

>>69245348
And Shakira

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They are pretty well integrated, Paulina Vega (miss universe 2014) is of lebanese descent

>>69245206
To become politicians. No joke, there's a lot of them in politics, incluing our president (son of Lebaneses).

>>69245410
Are they mostly Christian? And do they stay Maronite or become Catholic

I think there are at most three lebanese in the government.

>>69245206
Not us?

>>69245470
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_people

Don't seem to be really any in Chile or at least the population is to small

>>69245458
Most of them are christian, i don't know of they are catholic, i guess they are

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>>69245470
this might actually be the ultimate soccer hipster shirt

if you have enough palestinians to name a first division team after them then i'm sure you have lebs too

>>69245547
They're Maronites, it's an Eastern rite but fully part of the Catholic church. I know more than a few, bro tier and well asimilated, Mexico did not accept Muslims when they migrated.

>>69245206
If I'm not mistaken they were mostly merchant families who migrated to São Paulo in search for better business opportunities, as the Ottoman Empire was in shambles. They have the wealthiest families in Brazil and are probably the most prestigious ethnic group in the country as well.