Why is Portugal so irrelevant nowadays? It almost makes me sad.

Well for starters it's one of the poorest developed countries in the world.

>>76541243
>Most people
prove it

>>76541386
From my personal experience
>Doing this thing where we gotta name all the countries in a certain continent or region
>Doing central America, stuck on the last few
>Someone calls out: "Portugal!"
>Someone else: nahh that's in South America
>Everyone else agrees

>>76541470
Are you in elementary school?

>>76541470
How old are you?

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let it be irrelevant
it will make bad and stupid people stay away from the country

>legalize all drugs
>go to shit
what a miracle who couldve guesses

>>76541525
that was uni students

>>76541470
I'm not sure your experience at a tard center is really meaningful

>>76541572
>that flag

>>76541573
You didn't correct them and mock them for their stupididty?
What a tool.

>>76541573
No wonder Australia used to be the place where britbongs sent their worst kind, you guys truly are barbarians.

>>76541680
i had thought spain&portugal in SA too
t. highest IQ masterrace

>>76541573
This class must have been easy as fuck

>>76541573
i wish our unis allowed literal retards instead of actually requiring people to study

>>76541660
>>76541660
Actually they were mostly international students
Very few actual Australians in Australian universities (at least that bother to attend class). For example I remember one class where almost the entire semester I was the only white face asides from the teacher, except for every so often when one of the two others bothered to turn up.

Good thread

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>>76541573
holy shit

It's just smaller than most countries, especially Brazil.
Even when people study english they mostly mean american english.

>>76541243
>Why is Portugal so irrelevant nowadays?
Cheap whore of british, thats all.

>>76541243
>most people
he literally said
>most
>people

>>76542268
sounds like a fucking nightmare t b h

you see that's one advantage of taking niggers rather than chinks, you're pretty sure they're not going to take over unis since they stop going to school to sell drugs instead when they are 12yo

>>76541243
That's because brazilian portuguese is different than european portuguese. Duolinguo teaches brazilian portuguese so it's correct to have the brazilian flag there. Same goes for everyone else.

>>76547340
>Cheap whore of british, thats all.
DELETE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REEEEEEEEE
THE TRUTH HURTS!!!! FDP

>>76541572
They legalized all drugs, but still managed to suck UN balls by sinning the world wide war on drugs treaty's.

So now you can consume any drug but you cannot produce it or sell it.

Way to go I love my fucking commie state cunt

Portugal is a small country. Brazil is a big country.

It's the same with the Cyrillic alphabet. It's Bulgarian, but people associate it with Russia because it's huge.

because brazil is the actual inheritor of the portuguese empire

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>>76548678
Kirill and Methody were greeks, you know.
So basically thanks to the Greece.

>>76548678
>Cyrillic alphabet. It's Bulgarian, but people associate it with Russia because it's huge.
1. Modern Cyrillic was created by the order of Peter I, the emperor of Russia.
2. Now Church Slavonic is mostly a Russian izvod because it was banned by Ottomans so Christians there used to buy books from Russia.

>>76548777
Cyril and Methodius made the Glagolic alphabet, not the Cyrillic.

>>76548949
Peter's reform doesn't make it Russian.

>Russian education

>>76549225
>Cyril and Methodius made the Glagolic alphabet, not the Cyrillic
Exactly cyrillic.
And glagolic (a.k.a. тaйнoпиcь) has been made by Kyrill earlier than cyrillic. Later it was banned.

why is it that slav immigrants manage to speak our language almost perfectly after 2-5 years of living here?

>>76549359
Again
>Russian education

>>76549359
Fug. I've messed up it with it. But i'm too lazy to find a mistakes and fix it. Actually, doesn't matter.

>>76549405
Only a retard wouldn't be able to speak the language of the country they live in after 5 year.

>>76549405
They already sound exactly the same.

>>76549405
Because they have always been subjugated by other countries and had to learn their languages (German, Russian, Turkish, Italian etc.) therefore got better skills on it.

>>76549405
we have similar pronunciation

That's not the point, the point is that you cannot distinguish between a native speaker and a Slavic one with only a few years of learning >>76549450

>>76549450
i'm mostly refering to pronounciation, you can tell normally tell if it's a german/english/russian dude speaking english, and for example ukrainians even tho sometimes they forget some words they have perfect pronounciation

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Stop bullying Portugal. They've kept Brazil together and expanded its territory through over 300 years of colonization, while Sp*in had all its subaltern territories fractured into a million shitty countries through Latin America.

Brazil is the proud son who surpassed his mentor and father thanks to his upbringing, not merely throne usurpers. Tugas are welcome in our country whenever Europe becomes unlivable (brownies shitting up Portugal not welcome, stay there).

>>76549573
ukrainians speaking portuguese ofc

>>76541243
Because they are dumb. They robbed our natural resources for 300 years and are still poor af. I have portuguese blood and I'm dumb too.

>>76550025
No, your dumb by your own merits, don't need to include us

>>76550025
You're amerindian. Stop lying

>>76541617
?


what you think drugs are legal here....? ah. yes... thats not true.

>>76548678
Not necessarily, for example: Spain, what matters is how popular they are in the world view, believe it or not but Russia is more popular than Bulgaria and Brazil more popular than Portugal

>>76549405
I can speak four words of Portuguese and a Brazilian exchange student told me I sound posh and snobby. I asked him to explain. He told me: "Basically like a Portuguese"

>>76554990
Do Aussies or Americans also confuse Spain and Hispanic America?

>>76555506
No, there is much difference between them, but Spain continues to draw more attention (at least enough not to be left out)

>>76541470
So aussies are like some burgers always so dumb.

>>76541470
Woah. Anglos are beyond retard.

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>>76541573
And I get fucking berated everyday for not knowing obscure shit and procedures that I will never be allowed to do.

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>>76550025
>Because they are dumb.

LMAO

>>76549601
This. Any good father wants his kids to have more opportunities than they did.

>>76555117
I don't think Brazilians think of the Portuguese accent as Posh like the Americans do with British.

I wish, though. Brazil, start making movies with Portuguese villains so we can market the sophisticated old-worlder and get some Brazilian bunda once in a while.

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>>76557520
nice shop

>>76541312
If you count the developed world, as only western Europe, usa, australia and japan yes we are "poor"

In a different scale we are one of the richest countries world wide. And of course with best quality of life, just look where you are Canada (17th) and where we are (8th)

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp

But just don+t tell anybody, let the refugees went to sweden or germany or canada ahha

>>76557843
It is not photoshop dear slovenian or slovakian.

https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisa-2015-results-in-focus.pdf

oopppps

>>76550679
I thought most people in Brazil are tri-racial? white+black+native. How can he be amerindian?

>>76558131
whatever
he still doesn't have any portuguese blood

Why does Portugal still exist? Not even in a strictly modern sense but why did Spain never annex it? Like, did Franco never set his eyes on it? It's just an ugly rectangle stopping Spain from having nice even borders.

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>>76558006

>>76559409
>did Franco never set his eyes on it?
They were our fascists friends, no point on invading them

>>76548593
Drugs aren't legal, it's just that comsumption isn't a crime. It worked to reduce the number of related cases of AIDS and other infectious diseases.

Lisbon and Porto have become a lot nicer also.

>>76559409
>did Franco never set his eyes on it?
he did, but he was smarter than the ones that came before, and knew to stay the fuck out

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>>76541243
>Choose your language
>English
>American flag

>>76554990
But that's exactly what I said.

>>76559409
Why are chicanos always so butthurt about us. Is it our superiority? It's like that argie and mexibro that kept shitting on Portugal in any Portugal related thread

>>76559759
Because they think that their countries never succeeded because they border larger countries (US/Brazil), but Portugal proves them wrong by consistently BTFO'ing Spain or being able to do its own shit regardless of Spanish interests. Even if the result was worse for Portugal, we had the choice and took it every time.

>>76559759
>Is it our superiority?

>>76559409
They like to answer that question with pics from wikipedia of battles they have won, just wait.

Can we officially change the name of the language to Brazilian?

>mfw Portugal gets no refugees because of irrelevancy
I fail to see the problem

>>76559896
If we're going for the largest speaking population route, you're going to end up speaking what would be known as Indian

>>76541572
It was shit before that lol

>>76541243
wait, it isn't?

>>76558006
stop lying portugal doesn't exist

>>76555506
>>76554990
Americans know what Spain is and what Mexico is because they fought both and they know they're different.
Americans meanwhile had very little to do with Portugal and only a tinsy bit with Brasil.
Therefore american apps care very little about Portugal or Brasil.

>>76559409
He did but NATO happened

What is Potrugal and what are the Portugese like? They seem to be 'the worst of the best', rich and developed but not as rich as their friends. They don't seem to give a fuck though, they seem satisfied, and from what I've noticed, they're quite different from the other Meds because they seem calm and shy. Only likable Meds basically.

Seems like a nice place to visit, don't know about living, a Portubro would have to give his opinion on that. Don't know how white it is, except the Alberto Barbosa meme.
How have they managed to create that abomination named Brayil is beyond me.

>>76560830
Americans know the difference from Portugal and Brazil. Sheesh do you guys think we are all braindead or something?

>>76561121
Pretty much, yes

>>76561083
It's spelled "Portuguese".
I actually knew a Serbian once. Nice chap.

>>76561083
We're basically quiet, stoic, fish-eating Spaniards.

Whiteness is irrelevant when you have a country as peaceful as ours despite being relatively poorer than it should be given it's surroundings and history.

And here lies the secret: we spend money on comfort: roads, good healthcare, decent education. We're the kind of poor guys that have no money left at the end of the month, not the kind of poor guys that don't have any at the beginning.

>>76561324
>Whiteness is irrelevant
t. brown eyes brown skin filthy gypsy

>>76561401
Green eyed pale ginger, but thanks. Who cares about Portugal's colour, desu.

Even if we were black, our achievements speak for themselves, and then blacks would've been the superior race because blacks would've been the ones to explore the world.

We don't need to hold on to colour to claim our superiority like the Germanics do with the English. We did our own shit. Portuguese colour is irrelevant, so long as they are Portuguese.

>>76561229
I have a Portubro internet pal, good fellow, kind of arrogant.

>>76561324
Well, that's good then. I remember when I was in the US, every fucking road looked like a Serbian country road with cracks and other nonsense.

Your Portuguese* sounds kind of bad compared to the Monkey one because you slur words and don't open your mouths. Just an observation. Pretty cool language otherwise.

Do you have any minorities, troublesome minorities? What are your thought on foreigners living there?

>>76561480
i didn't expect a serious reply to such a shitty bant tbqh

>>76561324
>fish-eating Spaniards.
We also eat a lot of fish tho

>>76561553
>mfw that's true
https://www.statsmonkey.com/hbar/20598-list-of-countries-by-fish-consumption-per-capita.php

>>76561505
We speak the dad-version of Portuguese. Brazil speaks the mom-version.

>Do you have any minorities, troublesome minorities?
Gypsies (not nearly as much as Spain by a long shot). blacks (not nearly as much as France by a long shot) and a bunch of rowdier Brazilians (but those are 50-50 on behaviour in my experience, since only the richer ones come here). They do cause trouble in some select neighbourhoods in Lisbon, but otherwise it's 100% peaceful.

The few Eastern Europeans we've got are usually pretty cool and hardworking, and adapt pretty well.

>What are your thought on foreigners living there?
If they work and shut up, we're cool. Everyone is allowed to be what they want as long as they don't require anyone else to put up with it or feed their delusions.

Be nice and handle a bit of banter and people will help you as much as they can. Act entitled or arrogantly, and you get shunned. We're fairly reasonable people, most of the time.

>>76561553
True, to foreigners, yes. I think you guys are like number 8 fish-eating per capita, whereas we're number 3 or 4 after Iceland Malaysia and Japan some years. We still eat a fair amount more than you, unless you're Galician. It all comes down to geography though, and Madrid may be lowering your average.

I mean that we've been a country of fishermen in cuisine, culture and attitude since time imemorial, is all.

>>76561646
How the fuck is UK below the US?

When I visited the US I had the hardest time finding decent fish.

>>76557906
how the hell is Spain and Portugal higher than Netherlands and Switzerland.

>>76559759
>Why are chicanos always so butthurt about us. Is it our superiority?
no one even thinks about you ever we could care less about you

>>76561772
Weather, VERY GOOD healthcare and infrastructures. Also, ethnic homogeneity brings A LOT of peace to us at least. To Spain as well, since their sub-ethnicities are all sort of segregated within their sub-countries.

>>76561772
Quality of life has very little to do with money.

>>76541243
Portugal has great people, so relevancy is ironically irrelevant.

>>76561771
They eat a lot of fish in coastal areas.

>>76561646
Kek, according to this list you eat 10 times more than us. We only eat the river fish on a few select occasions.

>>76561740
Seems...pretty reasonable.

>>76561772
Netherlands are overcrowded, Switzerland is too expensive.

>>76557906
I've known one guy who tried to live in Portugal. He returned after a few days complaining how poor it was. He said that you even don't have BREAD in your shops. Don't know what he expected or if he can be trusted though.

Now he thinks that Europe is poor shithole. It's really funny, but this guy exists indeed.

>>76561772
Socialism works*

*If you have a homogeneous, xenophobic people and German cucks bankrolling us for it, a fairly expansive colonial history for your size and a comfy country with great food, weather and landscapes.

>>76561885
Yeah, but what about fish and chips? The UK is a fucking pair of islands, ffs.

>>76561910
Cold saltwater fish is more delicious, usually. Serbia being landlocked certainly doesn't help.

>>76562006
What? We have dedicated bakeries in every single village full of freshly baked bread and delicious conventual deserts.

>>76562065
Eh, I've eated tuna and sardines, if what you eat is anything like it riverfish beats it by a long shot.

One more question, is it hot/how hot is it there?
We range from -30 C in the Winter to +40 C in the Summer, althought we have trouble existing at temperatures above 20 C.

>>76562204
For most of the country (or the inhabited places) you get a 0ºC low in the winter and a 40ºC high in the summer, with a few days peaking past both.

>>76541243
who?

>>76548711
>because brazil is the actual inheritor of the portuguese empire
this

>>76559896
No
We speak the same language. Although there are some minor differences, if we both stick to the grammar rules, with no slangs whatsoever, is basically the same thing.
Alas. they made the language, the very least is to respect their history and the heritage they gave to us and keep the name

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>>76541243
By most people you mean americans?
Any person that gives a little shit about football knows about us while australia is only know for kangaroos and shiet.

Portugal is the world's greatest underdog. They were underestimated in Europe centuries ago, but became the world's greatest navigators, and founded the first European colonial empire. Portugal is and always will be successful in many ways , it just goes unnoticed.

>>76561480
>so long as they are Portuguese

Portuguese are white europeans. So that matters´or you want that the entire world can become "portuguese" someting you claim it has no roots. It's not that way. be portuguese you have to be natie to this land, or at least european.