"Miguel, Silva, you two stay, the others will go back and continue thinking."
After all, Brazil is in a corner, and the gap with Europe is so big that Tang Ning has to do and supervise many things personally, otherwise things will probably stop there.
"Your Majesty, we have to leave first!"
The other three ministers left easily. Miguel, the Minister of Education, and Silva, the Minister of Culture, who stayed behind, felt a little nervous. They didn't know why His Majesty the King left them alone.
His Majesty Pedro III was very angry just now and got furious with them.
His Majesty the King has a very gentle temper and rarely gets angry. Now that they are left alone, the two of them wonder whether they have done something wrong again.
"Don't be nervous, I'm just here to talk about shaping Brazilian culture and spirit."
Looking at the uneasy two people, Tang Ning calmed down with gentle words and went straight to the topic
"Brazil is a country of immigrants, but it is essentially the country of our Portuguese.
You two are Portuguese, and you should know that Brazil was founded by us Portuguese. But the problem is that although our ethnic group is dominant in Brazil now, it is not too strong. This is a major problem, a very serious problem.
Where does this problem lie? The problem lies in culture. To put it bluntly, our Portuguese culture is a bit weak, and our national appeal is not very strong.
Although we Portuguese have a long history and can be traced back to the Lusitalians in the seventh century BC, this does not mean that our Portuguese culture is prosperous and strong.
Reality tells us that Portugal is only a small cultural group in Europe. It has a strong identity within the region, but its external influence is too weak.
Our Portuguese culture pales in comparison to Spanish culture. Because of our weak cultural influence, our compatriots who illegally occupy our historical homeland of Portugal do not have strong recognition of us.
Take the Galicians in Spain for example. Regardless of their origin, history, or language, they are Portuguese.
Portugal and Galicia have the same roots and are closely connected in history. All the countries that were born were merged, but the shameless Spanish predecessor, the Kingdom of Castile, occupied the land that we should belong to like a robber. Because it has been occupied for a long time
, our compatriots in Spain have a somewhat weak recognition of us, which is really uncomfortable.
This is a lesson. Brazil is bigger than Portugal and is about to usher in a large-scale immigration wave. It is imperative to assimilate these people with Brazilian and Portuguese culture, otherwise they will regret it in the future.
Even if Brazil becomes stronger in the future, Brazilians will fall into internal divisions because of lack of cultural unity."
Culture, Portuguese culture is a bit broken!
Portugal has a long history, but culturally, it seems a bit unworthy of mention compared to other well-known nations in the world.
Portuguese culture, take literature as an example, it is difficult for Portuguese literature to occupy a place in the world. The father of Portuguese literature, the author of "The Soul of Portugal", Camões, the Portuguese Shakespeare, can only be regarded as a native speaker in the world literary world.
Nameless.
Portugal has a strong presence in its own region, and its culture, music, architecture, food, etc. all have its own uniqueness, but it cannot spread and can only be maintained in the colonies.
Compared with Spain, Portugal’s biggest advantage is its national unity.
But in other aspects, Spain, culture, music, architecture, food, etc. are better than Portugal and are also influential in the world.
The biggest problem in Spain is the ethnic issue. The Castilians can only be regarded as barely dominant, and a bunch of other ethnic groups in the country, especially the Catalans and Basques, have a strong sense of separation.
Only in terms of domestic national identity, Portugal can definitely be complacent when facing Spain.
Portugal's national identity is still very strong. Spain has tried to annex Portugal several times in history, but Portugal has always resisted. It even wanted to become a foreign country and dominate Spain, but it failed because of the defeat in the war.
Historically, Portugal lost the War of Succession and was directly annexed and ruled by the Spanish Habsburgs during the dark 60 years. This is Portugal's eternal pain.
During this dark period, due to Spain's aggressive military force, Portugal was deeply implicated. It suffered serious colonial losses, including the loss of several important colonies. Half of Brazil was occupied by the Netherlands, and it also directly lost its strong control over India.
On the Iberian Peninsula, national identities were formed much earlier than in other European countries, and Portugal was among the first countries to complete national shaping.
However, the national identity was formed early, but the Portuguese culture is not very brilliant. It rarely breaks out of the circle. Many of them are limited to the mainland and colonies, and they do not even have a strong appeal to Galicia.
There is a lot of "big xx nationalism" in Europe. Those ethnic groups who live in the lands occupied by other countries have a sense of identity with the motherland.
Even in Serbia, this kind of joy cannot attract a large number of people through Serbia and Yugoslavism.
Not to mention Poland, a country that has been destroyed several times, the national identity of people living in other countries is comparable to Portugal.
None of the Galicians in Spain responded much to Portugal. If it weren't for Tang Ning and his father Francisco, who used Braganza's money to vigorously promote the history and doctrine of Portugal, and deliberately recruited people of the same race from Spain.
Rely on the Government of the Kingdom of Portugal to create a big-ass Portuguese doctrine.
Nowadays, the great Portuguese doctrine can be made famous in Europe mainly due to the efforts of the Braganza royal family.
The Braganza royal family not only propagates Grand Portugueseism and infiltrates Spain, but also supports and colludes with Catalan and Basque nationalists. The three families work together to tear apart Spain's national identity.
Brazil, in Tangning's era, had done a good job in shaping its cultural identity. It worked hand in hand with Portugal to establish and promote the development of Portuguese-speaking countries.
However, this time and that time.
Brazil in Tangning's plane has attracted very few immigrants from Europe and Asia for a long time, and its population mainly relies on local growth.
Now Tang Lin is taking drastic measures to introduce a large number of foreign immigrants, and these immigrants all come from some already formed nation-states.
Although Italians, Japanese, and Orientals are easy to assimilate, if you don’t take the initiative to assimilate, the speed will be very slow.
What's more, there are Germans, this type of existence.
This is a terrible thing. When Tangning faced a large number of Germans in Brazil who were fighting for their lives, he really wanted to kill them with the Lewis machine gun.
This bad existence will affect the integration of other ethnic groups into Brazil. These people are simply the cancer of Brazil.
How to improve Brazil’s cultural identity?
This is something that Brazil must solve urgently. Education and culture must keep pace with shaping identity.
This chapter has been completed!