The White Dawn (1974) - Philip Kaufman

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The White Dawn (1974) - Philip Kaufman

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Definição de Portagee, antigo calão norte-americano do séc. XIX que designa um emigrante português
Portagee is a term often ascribed to persons of Portuguese ancestry. The term found usage during the major waves of Portuguese immigration to the United States, from the late 1870s until the recent wave, which began in the 1960s.
Initially, the term found usage by Anglo-Saxons of the WASP variety in describing the immigrants from Southern Europe that they encountered as fishermen and factory workers in New England and on farms in California. Although ethnically white Caucasians, at the time, the Portuguese faced the same discrimination and accusations of non-Caucasian heritage that befell Irish, Italians and Jews of that era.
While the term still carries a derogatory connotation in some parts of the country, in other areas of the United States, persons of Portuguese descent often call each other Portagee as a term of bonding and endearment. This seems more common in New England, where Portuguese from the Azores and Madeira Islands have settled since the late nineteenth century. More recent immigrants to New Jersey do not use the term as much.
In California, a portagee gate characterized the tightwad stereotype attributed to Portuguese immigrants. The gate involved flimsy construction, implying that the Portuguese who made it attempted to save money in purchasing materials. A 2004 biography by Charles Reis Felix, entitled Through A Portagee Gate, makes reference to the usage of portagee as an ethnic term in Massachusetts during the 20th century. Felix analyzes the term while examining his own Portuguese-American roots and those of his father.
The term Portagee (which sometimes, and more properly, appears in upper case) also denotes a type of beans typically eaten by the Portuguese, as well as a type of bread eaten with meals. The term supposedly originated from a mispronunciation of the word Portuguese itself. (This suffix also appears in Chinee, as in The Heathen Chinee.)

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When three whalers become stranded in Northern Canada’s Arctic in 1896, they are rescued by Inuit. In the beginning, the Inuit accept the strangers' European ways, but as this increasingly influences and affects their customs, things slowly fall apart and cultural tension grows until the climax. (Wikipedia)
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Incluí a cena em que o chefe esquimó partilha uma das suas mulheres com o marinheiro português (é o actor negro com sotaque jamaicano :roll: ), em admiração a ele ser o lançador de arpões do baleeiro. A cena a preto e branco é parte da introdução artística do filme, a simular um filme dos anos 1940.



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Filme excelente para comentar mais tarde. yes-) salut-)
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