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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.
Machismo comes from the assertion of male dominance in everyday life. [21] Examples of this would be men dominating their wives, controlling their children, and demanding the utmost respect from others in the household. Machismo has become deeply woven in Cuban society and have created barriers for women to reach full equality.
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 ...
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]
Aside from acting, Ramos has always made time to release music — including one EP, The Freedom EP (2018) and two studio albums: The Good & the Bad (2019) and Love and Lies (2021), both of which ...
"Latino" is the umbrella term for people of Latin American descent that, in recent years, has supplanted the more imprecise and bureaucratic designation "Hispanic." [ 1 ] Some difficulties of comprehension lie in the fact that the territory called Latin America is not homogeneous in nature or culture. [ 2 ]
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."
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]