Paulistas

The wedding ceremony followed an Indian tradition, and a partnership was established between Bartira's father and João Ramalho, to the point that Tibiriçá would do nothing without first consulting his son-in-law.

With the union of Ramalho and Bartira, a large family of caboclos was born, which spread through generations, thus giving rise to the first paulistas, who, due to the poverty of the Piratininga Fields as well as the poverty of the Capitania of São Vicente itself in the beginning, gave rise to many future bandeirantes who would explore the South American backlands, expand the paulista territory and spread its culture, which suffered many European influences, predominantly Italian, with the immigrations that began at the end of the 19th century.

[citation needed] But the Captaincy of São Vicente, enlarged by the bandeiras to include Mato Grosso, Goiás, Paraná and Santa Catarina, remained undeveloped, having neither the gold of Minas Gerais nor the sugar cane of Pernambuco, two of the most lucrative products in the 16th, 17th, and 18th century.

Much is made of a supposed "whitening" ideology, or even "program", but the cold fact is that, when faced with the impossibility of obtaining European manpower, the coffee barons had no qualms about resorting to Japanese immigrants.

A curious fact from this period was the immigration of American Southerners, called Confederados, moving from a country where slavery had been abolished to one where it still existed.

The wealth produced by coffee culture eventually sparked urbanisation and industrialisation; the growing urban environment attracted even more immigrants, especially Armenians, Italians, Germans, Portuguese, Syrians, and Lebanese.