Do Spanish and Portuguese folk get on ?

Barna77

The Spanish just don't care about the Portuguese. I've never heard anyone mention Portugal and have never met a Portuguese person here.

Barna77 wrote: »

Argentinians come across as really arrogant.... like the French

Yes, but the accent.........swoon!

garv123 wrote: »

According to one of the spanish guys I work with only one good thing came out of England and thats the Sex Pistols

They´re much friendlier since they realised I´m irish and not english.

Same here. I'm actually half and half. When I say I'm English, I get :mad:. When I say I'm Irish I get . Which is ridiculous.

Barna77

Terry Early Pluto wrote: »

Yes, but the accent.........swoon!

+1

Cee-Jay-Cee

I'm Spanish and my wife is Portuguese. We love each other, most of the time.

Ah I'm only joking we're both irish but we do love each other, does that count?

dd972

dd972 wrote: »

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 )

They get on as well as Cork and Kerry, Tipperary and Kilkenny people do!

Larbre34

Familiarity breeds contempt, everywhere.

The people of any place thats had a nationalistic or religious spat or border dispute with a neighbouring country/nation/region in the last 10,000 years is conditioned to distrust or dislike the people by the sheer osmosis of listening to history from their family or at school, when in reality they probably have a lot more in common than in difference.

Any of the groups mentioned so far probably travel to or do business with their counterparts more than any other place, yet theyll have no problem slagging them to bits at the first opportunity. Then you hear these things like 'Ireland has a great affinity with Argentina or Palestine' Why not with England when its far more true!

DellyBelly

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.

This is possibly the greatest post in the history of boards.ie.

goiko

To be honest I have never met anyone in Spain who had something against the Portuguese. The only steortype I've heard of is about Portuguese women having moustaches but that's it really. I have only been once to Portugal and everybody was lovely but I did see this Graffiti message on a wall saying something like 'Spaniards, shut the **** up or else go back to Spain'. :rolleyes:

Johnny D. Mudd

goiko wrote: »

To be honest I have never met anyone in Spain who had something against the Portuguese. The only steortype I've heard of is about Portuguese women having moustaches but that's it really. I have only been once to Portugal and everybody was lovely but I did see this Graffiti message on a wall saying something like 'Spaniards, shut the **** up or else go back to Spain'. :rolleyes:

Gotta admit, that cracked me up a little.

looking_around

They get along bout the same as Ireland and England.

Though the Portuguese call the spanish thieves. And the Portuguese are VERY nationalistic, insult their country and they'll eat your head off! S:

ConstantJoe

General General wrote: »

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

They've got Slovakia sitting in between them now, but apparently the Poles and Hungarians get on well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_and_Hungarian_cousins_be

jugger0

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Irish and the Scots seem to hold each other in reasonable esteem, bound as they are by a mutual wish to see Engerland lose in sporting events.

The Scottish are probably the most anti Irish shower on the face of the earth, a lot of them hate our guts.

Wattle

The Japanese and Chinese can't stand each other. Mongolians don't like the Russians very much either.

Gamayun

Ravelleman wrote: »

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.

Another theory that I've heard for this is that Spanish TV stations generally overdub English language programs/films, whereas Portuguese TV shows them in English with Portuguese subtitles, meaning that the Portuguese are more accustomed to hearing English spoken and thus can replicate the words more accurately.

uck51js9zml2yt

northsiders don't like south siders....their too posh:)

dd972

Ezequiel Orange Shade wrote: »

northsiders don't like south siders....their too posh:)

That's why Clontarf folk can't hack it in The Coombe