This document contains 5 anecdotes about Portuguese stereotypes and humor. The anecdotes portray Portuguese people as not protesting difficult situations, prioritizing photocopying old documents, being highly connected to their mobile phones even while driving, and joking that their ancestors had advanced mobile phone technology before other countries. The document uses humor to poke fun at Portuguese regional stereotypes and traits.

1. FUNNY JOKES about our Identity

2. How are the Portuguese?
Try to find out!

3. Ice water
Next to a lake of very cold water, were a
Portuguese and two foreign friends. On the
other bank, two ladies were talking:
- I'll give you a hundred euros if you can get
those three guys to jump into the cold water.
The other, without wasting time, went to the
three men and after a few seconds the three
of them jumped into the water. The other
lady asked:
- All right, I'll pay you the hundred euros, but
how did you get the men to jump?
- Easy! For one, he said it was mandatory by
law, for another, which was fashionable and,
for Portuguese, said it was forbidden!
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4. Three friends of different nationalities appreciate
the picture of Adam and Eve in Paradise. The first
comments:
- Look at the perfection of the bodies.
The second adds:
- Repeat in your serenity.
The third one who was Portuguese clarified:
- Look carefully: they do not have clothes, they do
not have shoes, they do not have a house and only
have an apple to eat, but they do not protest and,
worse yet, they believe they are in Paradise. They
can only be Portuguese !!!
The Portuguese do a revolution with flowers : Carnations Revolution.
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5. In a company in Portugal, an employee asks the boss:
- Boss, there are documents in the file that are very
old and no longer useful, can I destroy them?
- Yes, but first photocopy everything!
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6. The Portuguese and the mobile phones
Portugal is the European country where "the highest level of
connection to the mobile phone is recorded: 7.0 values, on a
scale of 1 to 10, exceeding its connection to the car", in the
order of 6.8.
According to the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015,
the Portuguese are the Europeans who use their mobile
phones the most while driving, with 59% of the drivers do it.
The English are said to be the least distracted by the phone
while driving (21 %).

7. A newspaper in northern Europe announced:
« In an excavation, 100 meters deep, scientists discovered
copper wires 2000 years ago. Thus, we can conclude that our
ancestors already had a telephone network. »
The following week, another foreign newspaper presented
some sensational news:
« In an excavation, 200 meters deep, scientists discovered
3000 year old copper wires and realized that in the past they
had a very high quality telephone network. »
A week later, a Portuguese newspaper publishes:
« In an excavation, 300 meters of depth, Portuguese
scientists did not discover copper threads of any kind with
5000 years. The Portuguese concluded that they already had
mobile phones. »
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8. The Portuguese make many jokes about the “Alentejanos”. Alentejo is a region
in Portugal characterized by hot temperatures and dry weather.
I think, then exhausted!
ALENTEJO PHILOSOPHY
DESCARTES PHILOSOPHY
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