Brazilians are samba-ing their way to Scarborough in Perth, and bringing the Rio party with them.
abc.net.au/news/brazilian-community-celebrates-carnival-in-scarborough-perth/102008844Walking on the beach in Perth's coastal suburb Scarborough, you could be forgiven for thinking you were strolling along Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro.
Colloquially, Scarborough is known as Scar-Brazil and the Portuguese language is second only to English in the suburb.About 2.3 per cent of the Scarborough population speak Portuguese at home compared to 0.4 per cent in greater Perth and 0.7 per cent in the local government area, the City of Stirling.
"The Brazilian community here rises up very strong in the last 10 years. As soon as I arrived here, I saw [Scarborough] as the best spot to make the Brazilian Carnival in Perth," he said."I was living in North Fremantle then I moved to Scarborough, and I came to the amphitheatre [for] the first time and I said, 'Wow, one day I need to organise a carnival here.'"
"The beach in Scarborough was the main attraction to the Brazilians that came from the same environment in Brazil," she said."The last Census gave us the number of Brazilians in WA as around 5,000; the [number of] Brazilian students in WA is between 1,300 to 1,500.
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