Community of Portuguese Language Countries

Nandos is a Portuguese restaurant that was founded in South Africa. All the customers crave for their special sauce called PERI-PERI. There are only 13 Nando's in Maryland and the best one to go to is the Rio’s Nandos. When portuguese explorers were brought ashore to africa they were introduced to the african bird’s eye chilli (peri peri). In 1987 the same sauce inspired Fernando Durante to invite his friend, Robbie Brozin to eat with him in Rosettenville, South Africa. The food was so good that

the English language, although this concept can be applied to all the world’s major international languages with imperialistic origins, when the original population had to adopt the invader’s language because of the benefits that accrue to the speakers of the languages when the dominant language has been imposed (Phillipson 31). Linguistic imperialism in Latin America started with the ‘discovery’ and the occupation of the New World by the European powers. Spanish and Portuguese language were imposed

are a rainbow nation. The Portuguese culture and heritage is one that is quite dense and easily found within the mix of all the other cultures in South Africa. South Africa has approximately three hundred thousand Portuguese people living in it. Making it the 7th on the list of countries with the most Portuguese people in it outside of Portugal. Portuguese is not only a culture, but it is also a language and a nationality. Portuguese people originate from the country of Portugal in Europe, however

need to negotiate their inclusion into the national community that dissimilar to that of their ethnic heritage. Strategic representation is needed to collaborate their identities as migrants with their claims to inclusion. Of course, some migrant children born in their parents’ host country may find themselves at odds with the previous generations’ methods, and struggle to make themselves out as people who grow alongside the national community. Ultimately, it is a matter of what migrants and their

all the Indo Aryan languages, one aspect if quite clear is that they are all derivatives of Sanskrit (Sebeok, 1963) which in turn have their roots set in Greek and Latin and made its way into Indian soil via the Indo-Europeans (Sebeok, 1963). Out of all these Indo Aryan languages, Hindi is considered to be the most progressive, as it is the most analytical followed by Punjabi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Marathi, Bengali, and Oriya (Sebeok, 1963). 2.2.4 Inter-Family Influences No languages can be given the title

In this day and age we as a community are learning the appropriate terms to use to describe a person. For example, the difference of a person who identifies as pansexual versus someone who is asexual. Sadly, we continue to be uneducated between two terms, unaware that they are in fact different from one another. Even though the terms Latino and Hispanic have similar culture, they are opposite from one another by their mother tongue to geographical location.Firstly, it is understandable why the

cultural values and how they may have strengthened or altered since I have been in Saint Louis. Ethnic and Cultural Background My Portuguese upbringing and cultural beliefs have profoundly influenced the person I am today. My parents both migrated from Portugal bringing the lifestyle and traditions of their homeland to the United States. Living in New Jersey in a Portuguese household, I experienced acculturation in which I was exposed to two different cultures that in some degree altered the cultural

The United States is a large country with a diverse background of people. We all have heritage from other countries. Social customs, religion, and rights differ from one country to the next. 2800 miles apart lies the Caribbean and Latin American countries Jamaica and Brazil. A few years ago, I went to Jamaica for a vacation. It was a beautiful country with delicious food and miles of beaches. Their national language is English. In my research and from talking to the Jamaicans I could see how close

economy of Brazil. The definition of economy: The Management of the income, expenditures, etc of a household, business, community, or government. Careful management of wealth, resources, etc; avoidance of waste by careful planning use; thrift or thrifty use. (1) The system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community. (2) Characteristics of Brazil The country of Brazil official name is Federative Republic of Brazil, the term for citizens is Brazilian, and its capital is Brasilia

Introduction In the present world, there are around 6000 languages grouped under various language families spoken in 200 states (Grimes, 1992). The people across the world speak different languages such as Arabic, Bengali, English, French, Hindi, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish which act as important link languages to communicate with each other. The existence of all these languages, side by side, resulted in multilingualism because they have been spoken as second, third, fourth