You have 6 seconds to explain why you aren't a Lusophile

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You have 6 seconds to explain why I should be.

because i didn't grow up around around portuguese people or their culture, so i can't relate to portuguese culture that well

We wuz empire and shit

Portugal literally invented the modern world.
BR bro gets it.

btw, I am Macoãonese

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>Portugal literally invented the modern world.
wew

It's true.

Or do you not know your history?

nah, its ok to have wrong opinions, no need to get excited

This isn't a very flattering picture.

Portugal was the first to circumnavigate Africa, reach India by sea, discover the East Indies, and establish European contact with East Asia.

Without Portugal, European exploration wouldn't have went nearly as quickly, if it happened at all. You can thank the Portuguese for globalisation and thus the modern world.
It's about the ruggedness of it all.

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Portugal did everything first, the Dutch did it second, and the rest followed. Without Portugal as at the head of exploration, it's questionable the other European powers would have went anywhere.

Especially since most of it didn't serve any apparent purpose initially.

And upon the shores of the Atlantic they built a New Rome.

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this isn't lisbon

That's not Portugal.

i want to visit goa someday

It is Salvador

NÓS

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que bonito

WE WUZ KINGS N SHIEET NIGGA
YOU SEE THAT SHIEET NIGGA?

THATS OUR FUKING BOAT BITCH ASS NIGGA

ayoo shieeeet look at dem cannons tho

This is Salvador de Bahía

ribbed for her pleasure

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So... you tell'n me.... we discovert anime n shiet?

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Tugas are the master race.

This is a good thread

gotta love those looks lol

Meh. I'm half-Portuguese and take an interest in Portuguese history but I wouldn't go as far as to call myself a Lusophile. I have far too much of a love-hate relationship with that country to be "philic" towards it.

Pois é, depois que vieram carcamanos, weebs, chucrutes e o caralho, este país ficou a merda que você conhece.

have you ever visited portugal?

Yes, in 2009.

did you like it?

>I have far too much of a love-hate relationship with that country
So just like any Portuguese worth his salt.

ONE OF US, ONE OF US!

I did, and I usually don't like travel.

that's nice to read.

my family got rich as fuck on madeira for a couple hundred years cause they were like the only people who sailed back and forth to the mainland regularly to buy/sell shit

yeah that happened to a lot of people on the islands

By contrast, my family was so poor that they willingly became indentured servants for a decade in the British West Indies.

I haven't seen many people come away from a trip to Portugal disappointed. They usually think of it as a sort of hidden gem.

i was actually visiting when it was burning down this summer, i was in lisbon though.

i know my distant relatives own a lot of real estate there still, i wonder if they lost it all

if they haven't already, they will when the rain starts. those lands will just be washed away, they'll have to wait some years before growing anything on them
it's annoying to read so many people visit my city but i never get to meet any 4channers irl

You have 6 seconds to explain why you aren't a Russophile

>it's annoying to read so many people visit my city but i never get to meet any 4channers irl
i would have, posted in /luso/ a couple times w/ questions before i went too

the entire history of your people is JUST tier.. i actually feel bad for russians cause u guys are so retarded

shit, i guess i wasn't around then. shame. maybe some next time

>JUST tier
explain what you mean by that

> literally just

But I am.

My best friends are Tugas