Joe little people is a popular expression that means simple people, individual of the people. It is used to identify a socially disqualified person.
Zé, it's a popular way of expressing the man of the people. Povinho, is the diminutive of people (inhabitant of a locality). Zé povinho is a discriminatory expression, used to indicate a simple, scumbag person.
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Zé povinho was a character created by the Portuguese caricaturist Rafael Bordalho Pinheiro, in 1875, in the political humor periodical, A Lanterna Mágica, in a cartoon entitled Portuguese Calendar, humorously criticizing the main social, political and economic problems of the parents. He became an identifying figure of the Portuguese people.
The ceramic image of the character, created by the caricaturist, can be found today at the Rafael Bordoalho Pinheiro Museum, in the parish of Campo Grande in Lisbon, Portugal.
Joe's Week
Semana do Zé povinho is a political article, published in the news category, in Gazeta das newspaper Caldas, regional periodical published in the city of Caldas da Rainha in Portugal, whose publication began in 1925.
