What do you know about my country? (Argentina)

[thahat]

its in south america, the wife of our crown prince is from there XD
err a lot of woman do anal there XD? no clue why i remeber that.. is that illigal to say on the escapist? if so, please do give a shout i shal change it immediately!

 

[RoyalWelsh]

You have a great football team with arguably the best footballer in the world.

Also there are 25,000 Welsh speakers in the Chubut region which are concentrated in the original Welsh settlements of Trelew and Trevelin.

EDIT: Also what Jamash below me has written.

 

[Jamash]

Apart from the obvious stuff that everybody knows, I also know that Argentina has the largest population of native Welsh language speakers outside of Wales, the Y Wladfa who are descended from Welsh settlers in the 19th Century.

 

[Queen Michael]

It's in South America. The capital is Buenos Aires. It's common to say "Che" after sentences. Two famous and excellent Argentinian writers are Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges. Both of them deserved a Nobel prize for literature but none got one. The language most commmonly spoken is Spanish. I'm pretty sure the comic strip Mafalda, which I love, is from Argentina.
That's all.

 

[klipton]

Buenos Ares was the first place to get hit by a Bug meteor in Starship Troopers.

Shakira used to be/still is in a relationship with the son of former Dictator Glaieri.

Your defeat to Germany at the World Cup made our defeat to Germany look slightly less embarassing.

It's the 13th most obese country in the world, mainly due to the poor diet of those living in the slums, however the people seemed incredibly friendly and family orientated in that particular documentary, which is nice.

What the fuck?!! Shakira used to be/still is in a relationship with the son of of former president De La Rua. Galtieri is another guy tottally unrelated to shakira.

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When i saw Starship Troopers as a kid was a mix between "cool, we are on that movie" and "oh my god, a meteor is going to crash on our heads"

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What documentary?

 

[klipton]

It's in South America. The capital is Buenos Aires. It's common to say "Che" after sentences. Two famous and excellent Argentinian writers are Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges. Both of them deserved a Nobel prize for literature but none got one. The language most commmonly spoken is Spanish. I'm pretty sure the comic strip Mafalda, which I love, is from Argentina.
That's all.

*Che is used to call somebody, or to begin a conversation (before sentences, not after, except for some old people, is kind of hard to explain)

 

[klipton]

Argentina has a strong influence from Italy, France, and Germany. I think yall use Ciao for hello, don't you?

I know Astor Piazzola is a badass.

Juan Peron ruled for quite some time. You had a native tank design called the Nehual, Nahual, Nahuel. Something like that...during WWII.

Juan Manuel Fangio, one of the greatest racing drivers of all time, is from your country. He drove a modified 1939 Chevy. You also had a Ford plant for a long time...at one time at least you drove on the opposite side of the road as us Americans. Your cars were RHD.

One of the coolest variations of the AMC/Rambler American was built in your country. It was called the Torino, first assembled by IKA (Industrias Kaiser de Argentina, ironically, another American transplant), then Renault bought that company and continued production. It used a Jeep OHC six cylinder. It was heavily modified from the original Rambler American, which I think is justly reflected in the conception that it is an Argentinian native vehicle. I believe the changes made make that assertion correct. Later on the engine was extensively modified by IKA, including a new block and crank design. Very cool stuff.

That's about all I know.

Hola = hello chau = bye

We drive in the same side that in the u.s.

 

[Thrashgrinder]

you have some good lookin girls...

 

[klipton]

I there was a ruler named Juan Peron who started a trend in the 1930s of military coups that lasted until the '80s when Argentina finally became a democratic nation.
I know that technically that last statement is wrong because technically all the military coups were using part of the Constitution that gave the president incredible emergency powers, so the Constitution was never really thrown out.
I know that Evita Peron is a major cultural icon over there.
I kind of did a paper on the subject of the Argentine government and its democratization a couple of years ago for a comparative politics course.

What grade did you get? Because... no offense, but that is wrong XD. There has been military coups since 1930 interspersed with democratic governments. Perón was elected democratically on three ocassions, the first one in 1946. When he died, Isabel Perón assumed the government and was overthrown by a military coup on 1976. And the constitution was actually "thrown out". The democracy returned on the 80´s.

 

[klipton]

Didn't your country have a Bureaucratic Authoritarian government during the 70s-80s? Did they try to restrict free trade in favor of import substitution, or was that just Brazil? Man, International Econ and Politics of Latin America are just really letting me down here.

Was actually a neoliberal military autoritarian government supported by the U.S. Like all the coups on Latin-America.

 

[klipton]

The americans did their usual trick of overthrowing a democratically elected leader and installing pinochet a corrupt and brutal dictator which was also backed by britain (but friendly to the us and uk)

That was actually on chile, but pretty close. We had our own corrupt and brutal dictators.

 

[klipton]

The americans did their usual trick of overthrowing a democratically elected leader and installing pinochet a corrupt and brutal dictator which was also backed by britain (but friendly to the us and uk)

Well I've heard Argentinian women are legendarily stuck up and self absorbed.

That and you have your own cowboys...=/

Gauchos

That your claims to the Falkland Islands are completely daft as the falklands were in fact a British colony/settlement before Argentina was a nation. I think that once you get over that, we can all move on.

On a better note you have an absolutely amazing steakhouse called Argentos where I live. It's far too expensive but its really good.

We have antecedents from our colonial times and after, but great britain kicked the few people that lived there and there wasn´t much we could do because of our civilian war and everything.
Sidenote: Do you know about the two british invasions to Buenos Aires?

 

[Imat]

From what I can remember:
Buenos Aires
Spanish Speaking
South America
Right next to Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile I believe. And is it the Falklands which are right off your coast? I always confuse the location of those islands...
Evita Peron (I don't do accents). Admittedly I know this because of the movie Evita, but still a valid point.
Not as volatile politically as many of the Central/South American countries our amazing leaders in the US government have gotten involved with.

Sadly that's about it, off the top of my head.

 

[klipton]

Argentina invaded our land in the 80s and in the same decade, cheated us out of the world cup. I still think it is a nice place

Great Britain invaded Buenos Aires on 1806 and 1807. Funny guys, tough. Aren´t Malvinas/ Falklands islands a colony?

 

[klipton]

You guys had the big recession a few years back and don't use credit anymore, right?

We do use credit. The 2001 crysis was a pain in the ass but we are kind of better.

 

[HK_01]

It's named after the silver that's found there. It's in South America. It's pretty big. Lots of meat is made (and eaten) in Argentina.

 

[Legendary Alucard]

1978 World Cup... You Forced us to lose.. Or els Holland wouldent get out alive -.-
Owya.. and our Princess (Daughter of Jorge Zorreguieta) is From Argentina..

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Nothing whatsoever, except that you're apparently not supposed to cry for Madonna or something.

 

[Nazz3]

Uhm... i've heard of it.

And apparently its in South America by looking other posts. I thought it was in Europe first

 

[Wintermoot]

well the princes and future queen of my country came from there and it is in South America