Atheist from Portugal

[Dystopia]

Just out of curiosity, I don't mind your comparison but portuguese people are [generally] very offended, and I mean deeply fucking offended when someone compares our language with spanish (usually Castillian) or confuses us with Spanish people - Probably more offended than Muslims upon an Islam satire

Please don't shoot me though. Really, deeply offended? Why? They're obviously very closely related, I don't understand being offended. Anyways, I'm half asleep, my brain probably phased out there for a bit, and castilian spanish is the closest thing to portugese I can read, so I tried to read what was written in the thread using that rudimentary knowledge. It was meant as a harmless joke.

No I'm not offended I think it is a fair comparison, I was just pointing out of curiosity that portuguese people have these reactions when they are put in the same pedestal as Spain - Historical conflicts and still present prejudice between both countries are IMO the causes, it's like Japanese not liking the Chinese or the portrayed relationship in the media of the US and Canada, there's examples of that everywhere around the world.

I haven't actually been into Spain enough to see how closely related we are, assuming we're talking about cultural heritage and possibly ethnicity, but there's quite some resemblance, there's also some with French and Italian, usually the so called southern white latinos of Europe, also labelled as the lazy ones [not by mistake sometimes]

To be completely honest, I think Italian is much easier to understand than Spanish, but that's just my opinion. French on the other hand is when I better keep my mouth shut.