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brazilians and portuguese should find comradery over the fact they both have very strange inferiority complexes over the other existing

Hello from Portugal 🇵🇹



@MartinShkreli Yes, and a dab of blackmail and you can get whatever you want from him

Portugal 🇵🇹 has one of the most fascinating (& unfortunately underappreciated) national histories & identities of all the European countries Specifically, & among other things: • It's culturally unique, in that it's Romance/Latin but Atlantic rather than Mediterranean at the same time • It had the literal first & last of the great colonial empires, an empire which was built out of the heroic seafaring spirit of its people in spite of their small number (whose exploits of exploration & conquest were fascinatingly recounted in their Homeric-style national epic, "The Lusiads") • It has a really interesting 20th-century history as well (despite having been largely excluded from major European events due to its peripheral location), with a heterodox authoritarian regime ruling it for decades in the midst of a liberal-democratic West & with the peculiar ideological-geopolitical doctrine of Lusotropicalism uniquely shaping its national self-conception "Esta é a ditosa pátria minha amada"



















