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Do Spanish and Portuguese folk get on ?

  • 21-05-2013 03:21PM
    #1
    dd972
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    Just curious, of course they do for the most part, but just wondering if anyone here has lived in either country or knows about the culture of either place, what sort of stereotypes do the Spanish and Portuguese have of each other, does one look down on the other or regard the other as being backward and a bit rustic ( a bit how Swedes and Danes can perceive the Norwegians for example )


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  • #2
    fishy fishy
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    slow day?


  • #3
    Mr Benevolent
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    No, Portugal is backwards compared to Spain, they tend to blame everything on the Spanish, including the weather.


  • #4
    General General
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    Can anyone think of two different nations that are neighbors/neighbours that hold each other in high esteem?


  • #5
    Barna77
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    No. Portugal are responsible for CR and Mourinho, reason enough to vilify them


  • #6
    The Backwards Man
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    The rain in Spain falls mainly in Portugal.


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  • #7
    Mr Benevolent
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    General General wrote: »
    Can anyone think of two different nations that are neighbors/neighbours that hold each other in high esteem?

    Jupiter and Mars get on very well. They even have kids in the form of an asteroid belt.


  • #8
    squod
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    dd972 wrote: »
    ...what sort of stereotypes do the Spanish and Portuguese have


    Panafonic, Phony or JCV


  • #9
    Madam
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    Barna77 wrote: »
    No. Portugal are responsible for CR and Mourinho, reason enough to vilify them

    To be fair CR is from the beautiful Madeira:)


  • #10
    the keen edge
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    I say they get on just fine; they're both very attractive nationalities. 'Tis hard to stay angry towards beautiful people for any long length of time; and easy to forgive them.

    The main reason ourselves and the auld Brit's have been at each other throats for so long is because were both ugly bastards. It's just to easy to hate and remain bitter towards ugly people.

    If we all had face lifts and boob jobs the bitter animosity between our two Nations would just dissolve away.


  • #11
    Madam
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    the keen edge wrote: »
    .The main reason ourselves and the auld Brit's have been at each other throats for so long is because were both ugly bastards. It's just to easy to hate and remain bitter towards ugly people.

    Speak for yourself why don't you - I'm a mixture of Scots and Irish and I'm fine thank you;)


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    Jesus not another anti-Iberian Peninsula thread...


  • #13
    iDave
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    They get on fine, its Andorra they both hate


  • #14
    Larbre34
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    I can tell you one thing, don't leave Portuguese and Brazilians alone in a room together, theyll rip it and each other apart....


  • #15
    The Backwards Man
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    Larbre34 wrote: »
    I can tell you one thing, don't leave Portuguese and Brazilians alone in a room together, theyll rip it and each other apart....
    I once heard a girl from Braga say the same about the English and the Irish.


  • #16
    HalloweenJack
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    Spaniards are too busy hating the French to care about the Portuguese.


  • #17
    Dr Turk Turkelton
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    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    Spaniards are too busy hating the French to care about the Portuguese.

    In fairness everyone seems to hate the cheese eating surrender monkeys!


  • #18
    Ravelleman
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    Spanish people say that Portuguese women are incredibly hairy. The Portuguese say the same about Spanish women.

    Just as a matter of curiosity, the Portuguese tend to speak English much better and with much less accent than Spanish people. Their language has a lot more of the sounds we use in English than Spanish does.


  • #19
    frank reynolds
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    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    Spaniards are too busy hating the French to care about the Portuguese.

    And rightly so. i hate the french and i dont care how that sounds. bunch of fools.


  • #20
    Ravelleman
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    Cuchulainn1. wrote: »
    In fairness everyone seems to hate the cheese eating surrender monkeys!

    They call them gabachos in Spain.


  • #21
    The Backwards Man
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    Jesus not another anti-Iberian Peninsula thread...
    No one's mentioned Gibraltar yet. Or Andorra either actually.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    frank reynolds wrote: »
    And rightly so. i hate the french and i dont care how that sounds. bunch of fools.

    There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.


  • #23
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
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    Spanish and Portuguse are exactly the same... When will people wake up and realise this?


  • #24
    Madam
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    Cuchulainn1. wrote: »
    In fairness everyone seems to hate the cheese eating surrender monkeys!

    Your English - right?

    Either that or your about 10 years old!


  • #25
    francois
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    frank reynolds wrote: »
    And rightly so. i hate the french and i dont care how that sounds. bunch of fools.

    Bof


  • #26
    DellyBelly
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.

    That line is from Michael Caine in Austin Powers. Love that line it's hilarious. On one point he's against racism but then is blatantly racist against the dutch.


  • #27
    The Backwards Man
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    DellyBelly wrote: »
    That line is from Michael Caine in Austin Powers. Love that line it's hilarious. On one point he's against racism but then is blatantly racist against the dutch.
    Really? I never picked up on that before. HA HA.








    :p


  • #28
    swimming in a sea
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    the keen edge wrote: »
    I say they get on just fine; they're both very attractive nationalities. 'Tis hard to stay angry towards beautiful people for any long length of time; and easy to forgive them.


    I've not been to Portugal but Spain does not have in general beautiful people, maybe you were mixing up all the beautiful foreigners that hang around Marbella with the Spanish people.


  • #29
    mike65
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    The Spanish tend to view the Portuguese as lazy, poor and ignorant.


  • #30
    gramar
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    Theres no real animosity really over and above the typical rivalry between two neighbouring countries. I live in Spain and I travel to Portugal a few times a year for work and I've never seen any obvious dislike. The Spanish think Portugal is a bit backward and that the women are hairy and the Portuguese think the Spanish have a little bit of a superiority complex but that's as much as I've seen.

    I have friends from both countries and I can't recall anyone ever insulting the other. Take Mourinho and Ronaldo at Madrid...people mightn't like them but I've never heard any 'race' type insults. Spanish people have a much worse opinion of the English and abuse people from other regions of Spain much more than they do poeple from other countries.


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  • #31
    YFlyer
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    General General wrote: »
    Can anyone think of two different nations that are neighbors/neighbours that hold each other in high esteem?

    Czechs and Slovaks perhaps


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