On Portuguese people

“Portugal is the only country in the world where a man’s mistress is uglier than his wife”

After a long period of struggle for political power in Iberia and overseas, Spain and Portugal tend to enjoy nowadays a friendlier relationship. But the cultural differences between both countries remain and are subject to jokes from both sides. Portuguese people often appear melancholic and introverted, what contrasts with the Castilian categorical extroversion. Most of the Jokes in Spain are thus dealing with Portuguese and Galician. Spanish people love to make fun of Portuguese, joking especially on their physical appearance and their backward habits.