Portuguese is presented as the deepest pillar of Portuguese national identity, carrying in its pronunciation and vocabulary the history and soul of the people. The article warns that in an era of accelerated globalization, new generations are exposed to a constant "bombardment of Brazilianisms" through the consumption of digital content. It argues that preserving Portuguese from Portugal does not mean rejecting the richness of the Lusophone world, but rather refusing that the Portuguese linguistic matrix be diluted or replaced in its own country.
The article criticizes the successive orthographic agreements, considering them failed and artificial attempts to impose a single writing system in a universe that is, by nature, plural. The author argues that the true richness of Portuguese lies in its diversity and regional specificities, and not in a forced standardization that mutilates the roots of words and separates writing from natural pronunciation. According to the text, this harmonization of what is genuinely different results in the impoverishment of the European standard.
Protecting the Portuguese norm is described as an act of sovereignty and love for Portuguese culture. The article calls for the valuing of writing with its original silent consonants, of traditional grammar, and of the musicality of Portuguese vocabulary, both in schools and in the media. The author concludes that the diversity of the language should be celebrated through the organic coexistence of its variants, and not through the end of the Portuguese variant in the name of commercial standardization.
In a final note, the author questions whether there are still capable Portuguese people on foreign television coverage and whether opportunities are given to Portuguese people in the media of other countries, suggesting that this lack of representation may contribute to extremism.
