portulaco
18.04.05, 10:02
Top-of-the-range site about Portugal and Portuguese culture and people.
Please have a look - for those who know the Portuguese reality will be very
fun.
www.portcult.com/index.html
You know you are Portuguese when ...
1. Your mother or grandmother has Maria in her name.
2. You have a rooster napkin holder.
3. Your father or grandfather is called Manuel, José, Antonio, or João.
4. You have crocheted doilies on your kitchen counters, dining room, living
room, bedroom--on all your tables.
5. You decorate your walls with plates.
6. Your house is a mini church with just as may statues of saints and Jesus
as your church itself.
7. You are an immigrant and come home from France, Germany, or Switzerland
every August to see your family and work on the construction of your
retirement home in your village.
8. You're 25 and still living with your parents. (Note: Give yourself 20
extra points if you're married and living with your spouse in your parent's
house!!!)
9. You warn other drivers of police on the highway by flashing your lights,
even though one of the drivers might have just robbed a bank.
10. You baptize your child and send him to catechism even though you might
never go to church except for weddings and funerals.
11. You think all university graduates should be called "Doutor" and like to
be called so if you are one of the chosen few who have managed to finish
college.
12. You park on the sidewalk when necessary, even asking the person standing
there to please move away.
13. You have a mobile phone and spend a small fortune on it, but think twice
about going to the dentist.
14. You have a mother or grandmother who wears black.
15. You spend your holidays in Spain instead of in Portugal because it is
cheaper.
16. If you are a woman, you have been to see a "curandeiro" (healer) or have
had your fortune told.
17. You insist you wouldn't be caught dead buying Spanish olive oil even
though most of the olive oil consumed in Portugal comes from Spain.
18. You laugh at jokes about the Alentejanos but get angry to know that the
same jokes are told in Brazil about the Portuguese.
19. If you live in a rural area during the summer you are bound to hear a
firecracker exploding outside your window. But I guess it is better than
Tony Carrera or Marco Paulo blasting from the village loudspeakers.
20. You think that you can catch a cold with a draft or by sitting in the
spring sun. Cold drinks are also thought to bring on the dreadful "gripe".
And don't let anyone have a shower after eating as something terrible could
happen to them.
21. You get a letter from your doctor saying you can't work because of
an "unspecified, ongoing medical condition" and then go on a two-week holiday.
22. Your child's teacher misses two weeks (because of a letter from his or
her doctor) and you don't complain because you also will use the same doctor
when you have to miss two weeks from your work.
23. If you are from Porto you don't like people from Lisbon and call them
Moors. The reverse is also true but they don't call you a nice word
like "Moor".
24. You think Brazilians speak incorrect Portuguese and will not read a book
written in Brazilian Portuguese.
25. The last major military victory you can remember your country having was
the Battle of Aljubarrota in 1385.
26. You say that the Portuguese, unlike the Spanish, are good at learning
foreign languages.
