{"id":90382,"date":"2024-10-13T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=90382"},"modified":"2024-10-13T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T13:58:09","slug":"qotd-portugal-as-adhd-with-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/10\/13\/qotd-portugal-as-adhd-with-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Portugal as &#8220;ADHD with borders&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8230; I often refer to Portugal as ADHD with borders. And it is that. It&#8217;s weird, the level of ADD that&#8217;s considered completely normal there. (And I was off the charts even for there. Oh, well.) But it took me till this last visit, when I&#8217;m almost \u2014 to the extent I&#8217;m fully acculturated here, or as much as it&#8217;s possible to be \u2014 to realize how much of Portugal&#8217;s inability to organize its way out of a wet paper bag OR maintain anything less durable than a Roman aqueduct (and even those!) is reinforced and driven to eleventy by a culture that goes &#8220;The highest virtue is doing things fast, no matter how BADLY they&#8217;re done&#8221;. And that&#8217;s pushed everywhere and by every possible means. And yes, I grew up with it (Anyone making a comment about my books gets put in the corner. Actually they&#8217;re worse if I take very long. Yes, I have an explanation, but it doesn&#8217;t matter. It is what it is) and internalized it to such an extent it took almost forty years to SEE it was there and it was bad.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Hoyt, <a href=\"https:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2024\/07\/09\/culture-clash\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Culture Clash&#8221;, <em>According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2024-07-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I often refer to Portugal as ADHD with borders. And it is that. It&#8217;s weird, the level of ADD that&#8217;s considered completely normal there. (And I was off the charts even for there. Oh, well.) But it took me till this last visit, when I&#8217;m almost \u2014 to the extent I&#8217;m fully acculturated here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,57,41],"tags":[262,557,1444],"class_list":["post-90382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-culture","tag-portugal","tag-sarahhoyt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nvM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91916,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90382\/revisions\/91916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}