6.1+-+Portugal+as+a+Multicultural+Country

** Hi, everyone! I've received excellent immigration projects and I'd like to state it here on our WIKI. Pity :(( that I couldn't post the projects here because the files were too heavy! However, I'd like to leave a message here to thank all those who have sent me their work so far and congratulate them on the job done :)) ** **Special thanks to: ** ** * André João, André Neri, Bruno, Inês Barroco, Joana, Marcos, Mariana Mercatelli, 11th B ** *** Ana Filipa, Ana Paula, Bernardo, Fiuza, Nuno Bico, Renato (It seems I've forgotten you, not YOU, but to mention your name...:(( A thousand, or better...let's make it a million SORRYs) 11th D ** **I know you're still mad at me, Renato. Will you please forgive my senility? I'd apreciate it...** *** Mariana, Núria, Rita, Vitória, 11th D**  *** Ana Carolina, Ana Margarida, Ana Rita, Cátia, Inês Sousa, Priscila, 11th B**  *** Ana Rita, Rita Sequeira, Ana Teresa, Carolina, Filipe, 11th D**  *** João Vinagre, Kevin, Miguel Carvalho, Miguel Correia, Pedro, Tiago, 11th D**
 * I. IMMIGRATION PROJECTS (CHOOSE WISELY! WORK IN GROUPS! BE CREATIVE!)** ** A. As you know, Portugal has also turned into a country of immigrants. So, your future project is to do do some street interviews of immigrants in your community and who are now part of our CALEIDOSCOPIC NATION. Ask them about their hardships or successes in Portugal and how they feel about living here. **** Do your own personal films, preferably with English subtitles, or your own filmed comments in English and send them to my e-mail. I'll post them here later. (In order to avoid future problems with this page, OK? :( **** B. You may also do a different project, namely a __"VISUAL TIME CAPSULE OF PORTUGUESE LIFE".__ **** 1. Try to capture the essence of daily life in your community! Go out and shoot some photos that tell me about your life, your community and your country. **** 2. Select the best photos and write captions that go with each image. Then organise the pictures under headings, such as at home, at work, at school. (FEEL FREE TO CHOOSE ANY OTHERS YOU MAY IDENTIFY WITH!) **** 3. Create a wallchart. Together these images will create a rich mosaic of your country showing what it was like at the beginning of the third millenium. **** NB: YOU MAY GREATE EITHER A PAPER OR DIGITAL WALLCHART. IT IS UP TO YOU. ** **You have till the 3rd of June to send me your work.**

**YOU' RE AWSOME!** **Now for those who didn't have the time to do the work but still want to make a few comments on the Portuguese reality I'm going to open the page just till tomorrow, the 7th June. Please, HURRY**!

Is it worth? To be so cruel to those who are different from us? One of the things that I'm proud of having learned more in life is that we are all different. Some are blond, other dark, short or tall, black or white, we are all different but all equal. And I think that today more than ever that phrase is not part of the reality of many of the Portuguese. In my opinion we are a nation so rich in cultures and races, but we aren’t taking advantage from that. Properly understood, those that we look away when we pass them on the street are those who are collaborating to Portugal does not have gone bankrupt long ago. Because are they who accept the dirty and heavy work, unlike the Portuguese who spend all their time at home with unemployment benefits. I think if we stop being racist and xenophobic, and allow others to be happy here, just like we will be, after we accept they, like they are. Rute Santos, 11ºB

Teacher, I would like to know if we can deliver them tomorrow, because they are too big to e.mail.

João Neto

It was really great doind this survey. We had the chance to know people form other countries and to know what they think about our country and was awesome. Foreign people think that Portuguese are really nice and the most of our interviewed had already been here before and they liked so much that they had to return. It was a realy good way of knowing other people ideas. LOVE THE ACTIVITY :)) INÊS SOUSA

For me Portugal is a fine example of a multicultural country black white indian chinese you name it we have it (not saying it's a bad thing right away !). We're not like those other countrys full of racism and xenophobyans (didn't really knew how to write that sorry teacher :p) most of us just don't really care, most portuguese people just want to live a quiet life and work at the line (we all know that :P even tho it doesn't go for everyone we have a country of lazy people), but i'm not here to critisice portuguese people quite the opposite i'm here to support it. Even though most of the people that come from outside have louzy jobs it isn't really our fault even us have problems with jobs nowadays in Portugal. But still people out there still see us as a perfect country and to be franq we love it (at least i do :p) anyways i love how our country accepts evey race and i hope it stays like this. Ricardo Afonso

In my opinion Portugal is a developed country when we are talking about multiculturalism, but unfortunately, what i see every day is that some people's mentality( mainly the older people) is still a little retrogade in what conserns to immigrants. And the most ironic thing is that some of those guys that criticise immigrants were emigrants in the past. We really need to be more tolerant and recieve people from other countrys nicely because their country probably has some compatriots of us living there. Diogo Silva11D

Multiculturalism is evident in our world but xenophobia, racism and discrimination are threatning the concept of a wonderful world. The solution is to put our minds into it and solve this issue that has been haunting mankind for ages. Is up to us to change the world we live in and transforms our reality in our dream and leave as brothers. Peace will came when in the world appear togetherness and companionship. =Pedro, 11ºD=

I think Portugal is a good example of a multicultural world. If we walk on the street, we can easily see people from other cultures. Everyone is treated the same. Everyones has the same rights, but still, racism exists here. In Portugal, russians and ukranians are still associated with ; Brasilians are associated with prostitutes and soccer players; blacks are associated with criminals; and chinese are associated with restaurants and stores. Racism is a problem everywhere, and Portugal is not an exception. Gonçalo Henriques