CiKoLa
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Gotovina Heroj!
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Post by CiKoLa on Sept 11, 2008 0:56:25 GMT -5
Check this out ... dedicated to the Croat immigrants of Chile, South America. Bog i Hrvati. ;D
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Post by kapetan on Sept 11, 2008 9:14:48 GMT -5
Yea there is tons of politicans there with Croat ancestry, it's crazy.
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Post by SKORIC on Sept 12, 2008 1:46:26 GMT -5
Thats because alot of Ustase escaped to south america after WW2
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Post by markosijekira on Sept 12, 2008 2:44:36 GMT -5
^ This is true, but there was also a lot of emigration to the "new world" during the Austro Hungarian time. Around the turn of the century there was a heavy wave of immigration into Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay, from all over Mediterranean regions, especially from Italy. The immigrants settled in regions with climates similar to those found in the Adriatic, which explains 25 million Brazilian Italians in the very south of Brazil. South America was/is heavy catholic so immigration was made easier that way. One of the reasons why ustasa members and others fled to that region was that it already had a established Croatian Diaspora.
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MiG
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Republika
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Post by MiG on Sept 12, 2008 2:53:36 GMT -5
^ A very large diaspora at that.
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Post by SKORIC on Sept 13, 2008 4:24:55 GMT -5
ahk. Still i think that would have been made by an Ustasa descendant as they would still be more ethnically aware of what they are and more proud then someone whos been there for more then 100 years. But i dunno. Funny though i know some south americans who are of German descent who came there just after WW2 but are totally latinized. Proud to be latino homez I have some Chilean friends who have the lastname Dominguez, is it derrived from the Croatian Dom? They've been Croats in disguise all these years out to get me. I knew it.
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Post by markosijekira on Sept 13, 2008 4:52:09 GMT -5
Heh more likely it comes from Dominican As in Hounds of God
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Post by Novi Pazar on Sept 14, 2008 7:27:12 GMT -5
I've noticed there are many croats from Argentina and Chile, is it true that the current argentinian president has some croatian origin?
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Post by radovic on Sept 14, 2008 13:02:14 GMT -5
^ The ex-presidents mother was Croat, and she wasn't an Ustasha migrant. He was half German and half Croat.
The current president is his wife.
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Post by Novi Pazar on Sept 15, 2008 7:06:17 GMT -5
^ Thanks mate, its cleared it up for me.
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