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[95] [96] However, the word machismo does resemble words in Spanish and Portuguese language which is why it is often associated with Spain and Portugal. For example, the use of caballerosidad and cavalheirismo , to mean only the positive characteristics of machismo, is imbued with feudal and colonial connotations relating to colonial power ...
The Ciganos were the object of fierce discrimination and persecution. [6] The number of Ciganos in Portugal is about 40,000 to 50,000 spread all over the country. [7] The majority of the Ciganos concentrate themselves in urban centers, where from the late 1990s to the 2000s, major public housing (bairros sociais) policies were targeted at them in order to promote social integration.
The Portuguese state began with the founding of the County of Portugal in 868. Following the Battle of São Mamede (1128), Portugal gained international recognition as a kingdom through the Treaty of Zamora and the papal bull Manifestis Probatum. This Portuguese state paved the way for the Portuguese people to unite as a nation. [90] [91] [92]
Others in the media promoted anti-Portuguese sentiment with ideas such as boycotting Portugal [5] as a holiday destination, but that was not reflected in general public opinion, which saw record numbers of British tourists visit Portugal. [6] [7] Estimates were that a record 2 million British tourists holidayed in Portugal in 2007. [8]
Portugal currently has in force The Asylum Act 27/2008 which is legislation that is considered in line with international and European Union standards. [31] In conjunction with this Portugal is a state party to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. [31]
People pushing to get these removed have mentioned that these scholarships were created in the 1970s when women were under-represented in tertiary education, but it is now men who underperform and that the scholarships should become gender-neutral. [28] [29] In 2008 the Human Rights Commission of New Zealand considered abolishing women's ...
Typical Portuguese filigree heart shaped pendant, an iconic item in Portuguese fashion and design. Filigree began to be produced in Portugal in the 8th century with the arrival of Arab migrants after the Umayyad invasion of Iberian Peninsula, who brought new patterns with them. With time, the peninsula began to produce different filigree ...
Ferrel Christensen, a Canadian philosopher and president of the former Alberta-based Movement for the Establishment of Real Gender Equality, [3] [23] writes that "Defining 'masculism' is made difficult by the fact that the term has been used by very few people, and by hardly any philosophers."