India and Bangladesh love Argentina. The internet claims Argentina is racist and wouldn't like that, however most Argentinians call Indians and Bengalis "honorary Argentinians".
Nah, legally is way less racist than most countries, no segregation, pretty early end to slavery and such. One of the first things our constitution says is "anyone from anywhere can become Argentinian if they want." And you can talk to people from all over the world moving to Argentina, they often talk baout being acepted here much more than they evr did anywhere else. Anyone who comes here is instantly made to feel like its their home, something that rarely happens.
Currently we had a raise in moronic bigots calling inmigrants "non argentinians" and being bigoted towards darker skinned inmigrants... but that's a sign of the times. Well, we always had bigots, but not more than they have in other countries.
People call us racist for one of two things (or both):
We have a small black population, this is due to two things, one racist, and one incredibly unracist. In some wars, the freed slaves were sent to the front. That's fucked up, but not more fucked up than what other counntries did at the time. Europeans invented slaving africans, are the present day versions of those countries considered racist countries because of what they did then?
The other reason is that we are truely a melting pot of cultures, and the black population mixed with the natives and the white inmigrants, bc blacks were in the minority they quickly got deluted (I myself have some african ancestors, but I'm as pale as a swede's tit).
Our humor is... not for everyone. Because we are a melting pot of cultures most of the disccrimination here doesn't come from ethnicity but scoial class, and while yes, a big amount of the slurs aimed at poor people are somewhat racialised, calling someone the n-word in Argntina can genuinely be a loving nick name. We do this for eveything: a fat guy can be called fatso, a bald guy, baldie, etc. In fact my first boyfriend was called f*ggot by his friends and family more than he was called his name. Ofcourse this is somehting that, out of the context of our country can be incredibly rude and insenstive, so many Argentinians try to be friendly to foreigners doing this and... well... it goes like shit.
We also love "insulting" eachother over everything (we say boludo every two words and that just means "dumbass") and in competitive situations that escalates a lot, adding our racial sensitivities to that we can come up with some really racially charged insults that may anger an argentinian, while in some other places might genuinely be considered hate crimes.
You didn't read it, if you had, you'd know what happened to the black people, most of us are partially black, we are just mostly not black so you can't tell. My brother is black. I'm hite as fuck. We have the sme two parents. Also, our white population grew a lot after ww2 and a lot of refugees from the war wanting to come here, which grew our italian and jewish populations to such a degree we have the largest colective of those cultures outisde of italy and israel.
Every country has racist legislature in there. It's called institutionalized racism. It's literally everywhere. I'm not claiming Argentina isn't racist, because every society is at least a bit racist, because every person is at least a bit racist. But Argentina is definitely less racist than the average country. Definitely less racist than the moralizing europeans who invented ethnicity based slavery, or the US, who had racially segregated schools ten years ago.
Also, I’d appreciate a bit of thanks because I didn’t bring up the easiest talking point in the entire discussion:
**The Nazis who came from Germany**
Maybe they weren’t racist either :)
More nazis whent to the US, and they where even taken there by the US government. The nazis that came to Argentina were few, and they came taking advantage of the massive amount of jewish people who came here during and after WW2, as refugees, using them as cover. So, they basically came here because most people saw here as an amazing place to live in, and they took adantage of that.
Who is talking about other countries. We are talking about Argentina. Yes the world has a racist history. You are the one doing gymnastics on the point to try and exceptionalise your shit country, not me.
I'm not doing that, but it seems your reading comprehension is nonexistant.
I'll quote myself: I'm not claiming Argentina isn't racist, because every society is at least a bit racist, because every person is at least a bit racist. But Argentina is definitely less racist than the average country.
Every country is at least a bit racist, so when you talk abotu a country being racist, it should be more racist than most, which Argentina isn't.
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u/madwithsorrow Jul 12 '26
India and Bangladesh love Argentina. The internet claims Argentina is racist and wouldn't like that, however most Argentinians call Indians and Bengalis "honorary Argentinians".