That the Portuguese have a complex of inferiority against other European peoples there is no doubt in my mind. As to the question of which European people most contributed, from a philosophical and cultural point of view, to make the Portuguese feel bad about themselves, and to look on themselves as a backward nation, I have no doubt either - the British.
This is why I consider Michael Page's book "The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World" (Cruz Quebrada: Casa das Letras, 2007, 9th Edition) a very important book. There is not one English-speaking writer in a million capable of writing about Portugal and the Portuguese as journalist Michael Page does.
The idea that Portugal is a poor, backward, worthless country is a cliché that the British successfully and profitably sold to the World starting at least in seventeenth century and which Portuguese intellectuals were the first to buy. There is not in Europe a more anti-Portuguese culture than that of the British.
This is why I consider Michael Page's book "The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World" (Cruz Quebrada: Casa das Letras, 2007, 9th Edition) a very important book. There is not one English-speaking writer in a million capable of writing about Portugal and the Portuguese as journalist Michael Page does.
The idea that Portugal is a poor, backward, worthless country is a cliché that the British successfully and profitably sold to the World starting at least in seventeenth century and which Portuguese intellectuals were the first to buy. There is not in Europe a more anti-Portuguese culture than that of the British.
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