text: please help, its for my english test - tell me something about your nationality? ok, so, on tuesday i'll have a test from english....(i am from serbia) and the title of the article i'll have to write is going to be something like - characteristics of french people, italians, germans....and so on.....so please tell me something about your nationality, people in your country.....what r u like? :)) well, i hope that i can help. i'm fom portugal (in europe)...it's not a very known country, and we suffer with that, because we used to be one of the world's most important countries...500 years ago.  how are we like? physically, i can say we're, on average, medium build, not very tall, and a good portion of the men and women in my country are brunettes with brown eyes.  portuguese people can be described as helpful; good with foreing laguages (well, at last we try and make an effort to understand them) ;  a bit melancholic and sad (our typical music is called "fado", meaning "fate", and it's usually a sad and depressing type of song) ;  we hate soccer referees and our politics ;  sadly, our economy is one of the worst in europe right now; we love the beach, we're addicted to soccer, and we love to go out to malls, have something to drink (usually coffee) in a coffee shop or in a tavern... we have a great nightlife (one of the best in europe, expect us to get out of our houses by 11 pm, be in a bar by 1 am starting to drink, and ending in a club dancing until the sun rises).  i think that's pretty much it. oh, i forgot to tell you one thing...i believe it is a universal truth in portugal. we love our country, but we are always badmouthing it, we always believe that  we are the worst. but if a foreign person badmouths our country, we'll hate him for eternity. no one  can badmouth portugal if they're not portuguese.  i hope that i could help =) good luck with your english test!