Now I found out where Eichiro Oda got the reference to create Bartholomew Kuma from One Piece πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£
Why did he call him Bartholomew Bear? In Japan, Portuguese people, merchants, priests and sailors are well known. They even say Pan, which comes from Portuguese, for bread in Japan. It doesn’t surprise me that he used this guy as a character in One Peice.
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I know Portuguese colonization very well. I am Brazilian
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