Originally Posted by
furiousferret
I've only met one Portuguese person out here in California. This kid at my Junior High School would always get in fights because they'd call him white and he'd proclaim he's Portuguese and start punching people. Tough kid, because of him and Ronaldo I don't mess with them. He did look white though. (actually he looked like the Karate Kid).
What a bizarre thing to get angry about, when in fact he is white. The Portuguese ethnicity is essentially a mix of early inhabitants which migrated to the Iberian peninsula, Roman, Celtic, Germanic peoples. I know some people like to assign their ethnicity as some sort of race and sign of cultural purity or something, which I find ridiculous. We're european, maybe less pale and blonde than northern european, but european nonetheless.