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Argentina is a multiethnic society, home to people of various ethnic, racial, religious, denomination, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. [19] [20] [21] As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to ...
Italians saw in Argentina a chance to build for themselves a brand new life. The Italian population in Argentina is the third largest in the world, and the second largest (after Brazil) outside of Italy, [24] More than 20 million people (47% of Argentina's population according to Argentine government websites).
A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman).
Argentina, [a] officially the Argentine Republic, [b] is a country in the southern half of South America.Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km 2 (1,073,500 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
During the wave of European migration to Argentina peaking in the 1880s, the Río de la Plata area became heavily populated with people of European descent, mainly Italian, Spanish and French. They called themselves Porteños to distinguish themselves from existing criollo (colonial Spanish) ancestry, mestizos, indigenous people and mulattoes.
The 2004 survey which accounted for 600,329 people who see themselves as descending from or belonging to indigenous people. [27] Indigenous organisations have questioned the factual accuracy of the 2004 survey: First, the methodology used in the survey was considered inadequate, as a large number of indigenous people live in urban areas where ...
When Argentina’s libertarian President-elect Javier Milei takes office on Dec. 10, many headlines around the world will read: “Trump admirer sworn in as Argentina’s new president.”
Argentine authorities feared that in an eventual war with Chile over Patagonia, Mapuches would align themselves with Chile. [112] In this context, Estanislao Zeballos published the work La Conquista de quince mil leguas ( The Fifteen Thousand League Conquest ) in 1878, which had been commissioned by the Argentine Ministry of War.