Wednesday 18 July 2007
Yeah, Argentine's aren't very quiet about their racism. We've had students come right out and say the Peruvians are all thieves, Bolivians are here to steal their jobs, Chinese-owned grocery stores are dirty, and Chileans, of course, are terrible, mean, stupid people. They talk very openly about the "Desert Campaign," the genocide of the native peoples of Argentina, as a necessary and normal part of their history. It is taught in schools very matter-of-factly, with no mention of the fact that it was wrong to kill all those people.
Darker-skinned people find it much harder to get a job here, and foreigners from elsewhere in South America will encounter an awful lot of difficulties. The Argentines are extremely proud of their European roots, and hold up their Spanish and Italian forefathers as glorious examples of brave, adventurous pioneers who charged into this land and made it the great, European nation it is today! Yes, they consider themselves a European nation - I have heard people complain about how "South American" Argentina is getting, and that it's really going downhill.
Okay, not every single Argentine is so blatant, but many are. The feeling in the air is that the lighter your skin the better. Period.
2 comments:
WOW! That picture looks like something right out of a required book in Professor Burns class. Oh, can you send us some snow? I am dying here and I need some A/C right now!
no more racist than where you come from my dear gringa... i assume anglo right?
they didnt mean to kill 1000`s of natives back in the americas,or enslave them,or kill the aboriginals in australia,...no they didnt mean to kill them ,they just got caught up with the wrong crour,now they`re sorry... chau gringa
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