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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's Little Brazil I think.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago

How to piss off at least three sets of people in one shot.

[–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 18 hours ago

Maybe it has something to do with the giant red rubber band surrounding it

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 14 hours ago

You forgot to ask why there's a part that speaks English.

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Ah, yes, the Brazillian Guiana.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 30 points 1 day ago
[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 18 hours ago

They used to be the same country but then the Portuguese got offended for some reason and left. They regret this decision to this day and are commonly known as "the sad ones" n Spain.

[–] halendos@lemmy.world 148 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] halendos@lemmy.world 139 points 1 day ago (1 children)

(also relevant, also not my meme)

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I don't know about Portuguese but there is a meme about English:

[UK flag] English (traditional)

[US flag] English (simplified)

Which is not really historically accurate because both standards developed more or less simultaneously after independence and before standardization, the variety was greater than the difference today. But I digress.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (19 children)

I know it's a shitpost, but here's an interesting piece of History:

  • Back in the late 15th century, before Christopher Colombus officially discovered the Americas (more on that later), the Portuguese and the Spanish made a Treaty - the Treaty of Tordesillas - where they divided the World in half, each one getting one half of it.
  • Whilst making the Treaty, the original proposal was that the dividing line (remember, this was before the first trip around the World) would be a North-South line, located 20 nautical miles East of the Cape Verde Islands (which are just ~~East~~ West of the coast of Africa). With the Portuguese side being to the East of that line and the Spanish side to the West.
  • The Portuguese refused that location and instead wanted that line 20,000 nautical miles East of the Cape Verder islands, which was what ended up in that Treaty.
  • Where is now Brazil is to the East of that line, on the Portuguese side, and the rest of South America is to the West of that line, on the Spanish side

This is why the Portuguese and the Brazilians speak the same language, whilst the rest of South America speaks the same language as the Spanish.

Nowadays it's actually believed the Portuguese discovered the Americas before Christopher Columbus did (hence explaining the insistence on the location of that line in the Treaty), though there's also proof that the Vikings discovered the Americas centuries before that.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think I have seen claims that EVERYBODY made it to the Americas before C Columbus. In no order: the Vikings (might be true)
the Irish
the Romans
the Egyptians
the Basques
the Phoenicians
the Polynesians (probably true)
and, of course, people from Atlantis

[–] MyceliumNetwork@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

I once heard a great science presentation using sweet potato genetics to make a timeline of Polynesian island inhabitance and it blew my mind. And since then, there is genetic evidence of S American indigenous DNA in some Polynesian populations.

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

I also heard that Christopher Columbus tried to secure funding for his expedition, aiming to reach India without sailing around Africa, from the Portuguese Crown before approaching the Spanish one, but he did not obtain the funding.

Some take this as possible evidence that the Portuguese were already aware of a potential territory to the West that would block or complicate the voyage to India via that route.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] ray@sh.itjust.works 108 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Continental drift. This was a part of Brazil that broke off and drifted across the ocean. Then it joined up with the rest of Spain, which had broken off from Mexico. That's why the rest of Spain speaks Mexican.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And France is just a part of Quebec that drifted away.

[–] ray@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

France was actually two parts of Québec that drifted separately and then rejoined later on. The Paris region lingered in the ocean a bit longer, and people got accustomed to thinking of it as an island. That's why they named it Île-de-France.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's port-of-greece actually

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It's port-port actually. One in latin, the other in celtic.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I thought Brazilian was a number

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Two Brazilians died in a car accident."

Holy shit, what a mess.

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 47 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Saw a student once using the term "Port of Guesses" unironically in a final submission.

Like, how do you fuck up that badly that you don't notice that? I mean obviously it was just laziness, but still.

So now I've got a minecraft village named the Port of Guesses in honor of that nonsense lol

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