I feel like it’s more so that those currencies were really low and recovered a little bit, more than any other currency could have

If French Guiana is considered to be France on the map, why Greenland is not considered to be Denmark?

You have a good point there. São Paulo represents a small percentage of the whole country because of how populated Brazil is, while Tokyo is represents way more.

The Extended Metropolitan Area of São Paulo, according to Wikipedia, has 33 million people. Brazil has 213 million people. SP is around 15.5% of the country.

The Greater Tokyo Area has 38 million people. Japan has 125.7 million. Over 30% of the country.

So my experiences in Tokyo are a greater representation of the overall country than my experiences in São Paulo, even if the cities are similarly sized.

I’ve lived in both Japan and Brazil and this makes me wonder a lot.

It’s true that in recent years there are not so many people that would want to migrate to Brazil but some cities like São Paulo were a hub for immigrants, and a big percentage of my friend’s grandparents were born in different countries, me included. I’m not sure if those old folks are being counted in this because A. It was a long time ago and B. It’s very easy to get a Brazilian citizenship, so they’re all Brazilian by now.

Maybe this map is showing recent migration, or maybe it’s just not considering people that became a National of the country. Idk for sure.

Add that to the fact that a considerable number of refugees moved to Brazil like from Venezuela, Haiti and parts of Africa in recent years. Idk if they have been counted as well.

Now about Japan… if you ever walk around Tokyo and walk around São Paulo, there’s no way you think that Tokyo has more immigrants. Maybe main areas like shibuya and Shinjuku but outside of that it’s all Japanese. Although I know that there are very significant Chinese and Korean communities, idk how are they being counted based on the citizenship law. Some people (idk if the percentage is high enough to even make it but..) have been born in Japan for several generations but refuse to “become Japanese” because Japan doesn’t allow dual citizenship, therefore they would still be foreigners by this metric?

Idk the definition of a migrant, basically.

Mexico is such a weird case. They participated in several World Cups, to the point where they got super high up in this graph. But they never got anywhere close to the final.

Cities should be super densely populated and self sufficient, then we can transform the entire countryside in forests again.