Portugal and Europe/Netherlands - Cultural differences in the 70s and 80s

Abstract

This article, written in first person, portrays my personal experience as a young Portuguese woman living in the Netherlands. I intended to approach the cultural differences in Europe in the 70s and 80s, but I focused mainly on the Portugal-Netherlands comparison. Thus, I relate my personal journey of emigration to the Netherlands, as well as the process of acculturation and assimilation into Dutch society. This article looks at the differences in codes of conduct, contextualises the time and social reality in the two pivotal countries and the process of identity construction. The topics covered are of a varied nature (ranging from education to migration) but which, for one reason or another, marked me personally and whose content allows me to deepen the concept of interculturality developed in the Curricular Unit of Intercultural Studies.