Portuguese civ. why ?
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they were terrible colonizers. Portugual brutally colonized Brazil, took gold, sugar cane, brought in african slaves, and now they are the poorest nation in the European Union.
Portugal took everything, did not give nothing and did not allow Brazil to develop
Of all the european Imperialistic nations Portugal is the worst because not only is totally self-centered, but they behave the bad in a colony.
And what did Portugal do with all the things that they STOLE from Brazil? Nothing, they gave it all away to England as payment for all the useless things that incompetent and short-sighted portuguese monarchy bought.
Now, after centuries of sacking Brazil and Africa, those barbarians are dependent on european aid to develop and catch up with the rest of the continent.
Portugal could have at least apologized to Brazil for all the bad thing they did to us.
EDIT:
The above POST is supposed to be funny because it is so POLITICALLY UNCORRECT, it does not reflect the way I trully feel about Portugal. I have portuguese friends, and I get along with them fine.
MY GOD! I do not want to get into any future problems because of this.
It does not offend Portugal or the Portugue people at any point, well, except for the" Barbarian " part, that could be a bit offensive . At worst, the post is a harsh critisism of the portuguese economic policies and monarchy.
You guys totally misunderstood the point of the posting. The objective was, even though in the wrong place, to start a debate on the reasons for Brazil's underdeveloped economy and poverty. Also a debate on the reasons why Portugal was not successful in maintaining its superpower status in the late 18th and 19th century.The only one that got the message was Gugalpm, because he wrote:
"The biggest problem was the catholic church, who stopped Portugal and Spain growth... they impeded their burguesy exansion. And their burguesy, who didn't have power to invest the colonies' wealth in factories..."
If had not been for the MODERATOR, the whole thing could have passed as a laughing matter, but he spoke about feelings of ANIMOSITY, that never existed. That made the whole thing sound more serious then it really is.
