Oh yeah, that's why I love being Portuguese

I am starting "Italian week" in my own little cooking world at home, which means I just finished Portuguese and American weeks. My cooking themes made me think of certain things I like from each country that, when I see or experience them, make me think, "Oh I'm proud to be American" or "oh yeah, that's why I love being Portuguese". Here are a few things that came to mind:

"Oh yeah, that's why I love being Portuguese":

• fado
• decorative tiles, used everywhere inside and outside buildings
• warmheartedness
• genuineness
• sweet, toothless, elderly people
• gold earrings:
  

  

  (Not my pic. Got it from here)

• folkclore dancing
• a meia de leite
• the ocean
• chestnuts being sold on street corners during the winter
• icecream being sold on street corners during the summer
• coming home today and the cafe on the street corner having two huge dead pigs on tables outside, a man cutting parts off for them to roast (wait... I'm not sure if I like that...)

"Oh I'm proud to be American":

• country music
• country music lyrics that celebrate God, family and beer
• "a pair of jeans that fit just right" (Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried)
• christianity and youth ministry "american style"
• people like Taylor Swift or Natalie Portman
• the value placed on originality and creativeness
• the value placed on sports, faith and honest work (the self-made man)
• Carmel, California
• the value placed on comfiness (I love american couches!)
• patriotism
• county fairs
• bikeriding and baseball caps

The tiles on my living room wall