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>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Eustaquio Santimano >Sent: 17 June 2004 13:04 >To: Goanet Group >Subject: [Goanet]Portugal Diary: Praising Porto > >Portugal Diary: Praising Porto > >Porto, 14 June >Pragmatic Portuguese >The Portuguese are gracious and welcoming hosts - polite, friendly, >courteous, and keen to help foreigners understand their culture and way of >life. They are also a pragmatic people. They have not been swept up in an >emotional frenzy of nationalism just because the tournament is being held >But it is more than this. A Portuguese anthropologist whom I met in a bar >during the England-France game told me that the roots of saudade are not >so much in a longing for the past, but in the fact that Portugal was a >nation of fishermen before joining the European Union in 1985. It is the >association with the loneliness of life on the seas that shaped the >national character. Portugal is the only country whose coastline touches >the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. I do not know the source of this article but the above claim is false. Portugal coastline does not touch the Mediterranean Sea at all. Portugal is known to be a Mediterranean country only because of the climate (very similar to the climate of the other Mediterranean neighbour countries). As far as I know, both Spain and Morocco coastlines' touch the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. But definitely not Portugal. Best regards, Paulo.
