
ITheNameless
563 posts








let's all kill ourselves what the fuck man.



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"























