Please help, esp. Portuguese friends...
I think it's obvious I love and revel in Portuguse culture. It's not the 'country', definitely not the government, but something of a soul-to-soul connection that I am beginning to understand more, the longer I live here.
In ths picture there are four quadrants. Three of them might easily be:
1. Authenticity
2. Tradition (or heritage)
3. Pride
But 4? What is it that is the sense of joy, but isn't joy; is fulfilment, but that's the wrong word; the quality that describes the understated Portuguese lust for life and celebration of community?
I know it and love it, but I don't know the word for it!
Do yu know what I am talking about, and if so, what is the single word for it? Maybe it's a Portuguese word?