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    What do Portuguese think of Macau??

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    7. DeepCar5191 on

      A place that some people still talk portuguese and are proud of it and our culture, don’t listen to the bots saying “we don’t”. I also heard that portuguese schools are growing there

    8. dsilva_Viz on

      I know some people living there, from my hometown. They don’t complain, guess they have a better lifestyle than otherwise would have in Portugal. They travel a lot, especially Asia of course, but also they have been to the US at least once. Their family members will never travel as much as they do.

      Outside of this anecdotal experience, I don’t really have a concrete feeling towards Macau. It’s Peking’s obedient child (unlike Hong Kong), the world’s casino mecca and at the same time a window to Portuguese culture in East Asia. I am aware of the Portuguese culture still being quite present: be it the Portuguese cobblestone, Portuguese toponomy, Portuguese restaurants, Portuguese food, etc. This, with the honorable exception of some [questionable pastéis de nata sold at KFC](https://www.reddit.com/r/lisboa/comments/1iumrjp/pastel_de_nata_kfc_hong_kong/)…

    10. QuimDosMemes on

      I spend years not even thinking about Macau’s existence, but I’d like visiting it someday

    11. AndradexXx on

      It deserves its independence as a free democracy, not as another puppet of the chinese totalitarian state.

    14. Mdiasrodrigu on

      I’d like to visit someday. It’s a fascinating piece of Portuguese history where the police dresses like our old police officers, the license plates looked like our old ones too. There’s still Portuguese presence there although not like before.

    16. kalvinoz on

      A difference between Portuguese people and almost everyone else is that we don’t immediately associate Macau with casinos and the “Las Vegas of Asia” image. And even then, in Portugal people will recognise Casino Lisboa but be a lot less familiar with the more recent developments on Cotai.

    19. Varamyr7skins on

      I find myself thinking about macau quite often and I really wanna try to visit it someday

    20. Impressive-Ebb7209 on

      I think portuguese don’t know much about it now. I would like to visit some day

    22. Top_Ground_4706 on

      Why are the comments so rude…? 😐😐

      Well as a portuguese who loves China i Hope i can visit Macao soon since its It is a place of union between my country and a country that I love. 
      I also want to go there study chinese maybe … 

    25. track_to_xx on

      I was 10 when Portugal returned the land to China and I asked my dad “why are we giving a land that is ours to another country?” My dad said “It’s very far from us. It shouldn’t belong to us, they should have it”.
      And years after that’s still exactly what I think of it today. As a small country I appreciate, as any minority would, the fact that I see part of it on the other side of the world. But other than that, and interest in visiting for those reasons, I don’t think about it.
      And as colonialism goes, I definitely don’t like it. But we’re too small of a country for those feelings to matter. We now see ourselves an oppressed minority, even if the rest of the world doesn’t.

      TLDR: I mostly don’t think about it, sorry 🙁 But I like watching YouTube videos about it, sometimes, to see how they managed to join Portuguese kiosk/community square culture with capitalism. It looks to be going in a better direction than us

    28. Low-Outcome5720 on

      We love Macau, most of us are just too poor to travel there, my time spent there was wonderfull.

    29. supermau5 on

      I think we should have never given it over to China it was ours by right of conquest!