Take a look at England or most other European countries, with Spain as an example. literally hundreds of fairy tales, monsters, strange creatures, symbolic animals and heraldry and tradition... the list could go on and on and on. Portugal has Adamastor, mouras encantadas (which almost no one knows of) the twin ravens of lisbon, a few tidbits from the Romans like Pan ruling this clay and Ulysses founding Lisbon and LITERALLY nothing else. Portugal lacks CULTURE. it lacks SYMBOLS. It doesn't have iconic outfits like the Spanish conquistadors do, or the Grimm's fairy tales of Germany. They don't have the Yokai of Shintoism or the Arthurian legends of England, nor great and famous poets and works. Nothing about Portuguese culture or myth is known or celebrated, except (to a small extent) in Portugal, in the form of glorification of ancient exploits.
Why do you think that there are almost no Portuguese characters in fiction (certainly none in Pop-culture) but plenty of French, Spanish, English and even Brazilian? Portugal is, at least seemingly, hollow and soulless, it lacks culture and defining characteristics.
This, I believe, is one of the biggest issues with the country and one of the things that stops it from growing further. Without this cohesive myth, these iconographic and pervasive legends and feeling of colectivisim and national identity, the Portuguese struggle to coalesce as a nation and these feelings of patriotism fail to arise and are, instead, actually frowned upon.
If only there was some form of mythologist, some Grimm-esque wanderer who could perhaps compile a list of potential myths and legends and propagate the Portuguese myth and bring Portugal a sense of tradition.
What can be done about this? In this age, the creation of myths, legends, iconography and culture seems insincere and artificial. Is Portugal doomed in this regard?
patriotism is self-censorship. all nations, in fact all authorities should be open to criticism.
Cooper Cook
First ask yourself what is culture, define it. Then ask yourself what Portugal lacks in terms of your definition. You'll see that Portugal is no different than any other European country. This idea that x country (usually a white country) has no culture is unfounded.
Benjamin Adams
We have all that. All the bibliography is mostly in Portuguese, though.
It's therefore patrician lore.
Carson Hill
The biggest thing Portugal has is the discoveries. A bunch of people get on boats and set sail into the unknown, at a time when all sorts of mythical creatures were considered a real thing. Then we have The Lusiads that takes this part in our history and adds gods and all sorts of other stuff. A mix of legend with actual events.
Thing is, to kids, this is just stuff you need to know to pass a history test and then forget about. An animated show that follows The Lusiads would be great, but that's wishful thinking. Plus we're a lazy people. Nationalism is only a thing when our football team plays. It's quite sad.
Anthony Thomas
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Evan Scott
>Eternal Anglo not knowing his ally after two gorillion years. They've got templar stuff, fados, bacalau รจ uma delicia, age of discovery, colonisation and poscolonisation and a lot, a lot of wars with Spain. And they're literally from Atlantis.
Eli King
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Chase Scott
Essentialy this, we are a mostly relax kind of people, we work well when its time to work, but besides our melancholy being manifested in the way of Fate music, we are just kind of content by being.
We arent the poorest, we arent the richest, not 100% useless or ignorable but also not the spotlight of the world, we survived and we thrived back then but today, our mythos lacks because in the end, we came, we saw, we conquered and our peak was reached, we will just relax for now, until something major happens, until them, let us eat our snacks alone, in comfy peace, listen to the melancholy of fate and just live in peace, away from the stupid things the western world has, if the next presidents and politicians are anything like socrates, we will go down and crash, but atleast my tuga brothers and I will be able to listen to some fate and mourn the death of our once great nation.
Nolan Davis
The white man is known for its mongolian tier violence.
Here are some examples of white violence: The native american genocide The native australian genocide The nuking of japan World War I World War II Hitler and his attrocities The genocide of the palestinians The genocide of the Syrians The crusades The spanish inquisista
The white man is cancer upon the planet and deserves nothing but genocide itself.
White men killed more people in the last 100 years than the entire history of the superior asian people.
