I'm Portuguese too. Maybe a bit older than you because many years ago I thought the same way as you until I lived in other lands. I've lived across the US, Wes

I'm Portuguese too. Maybe a bit older than you because many years ago I thought the same way as you until I lived in other lands. I've lived across the US, West Europe, East Europe, UK and even Switzerland just to find them far more xenophobic than what I would ever imagine. And with some more years you might realize that the large majority of nations are indeed that way. Then going back to Portugal and looking at history, you might find that existed a long time effort for integration of different people in a very different way than say, the British empire. So, we're not xenophobic. You likely didn't had to live through the epidemic of drug in 2000 and watch the majority of your friends getting hooked. It was sad, there was no hope. Portugal just legalized those drugs because everyone had lost someone to them and nothing else tried before had worked. Even today in my own family, two of my younger brothers never fully recovered. They don't consume any more drugs since a decade and still it has permanently affected their brain capacity, one of them is still inside an hospital.