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Hmmm...North America was never attacked and occupied by any of the Axis powers, with the exception of Pearl Harbor and Midway Island in Hawaii (if that counts as part of North America) plus certain Aleutian islands closest to Asia and farthest from mainland North America - all at the hands of...

Here's an article that I recently wrote concerning a. whether Pres. Milei can turn around Argentina from its big economic predicament and b. the deep roots of that country's massive economic and political issues and how to solve those problems "retroactively" (that is, which point in Argentine...

Australia's sort of has a nickname (the Baggy Greens) but that refers more to the hats that they wear. New Zealand's is the Black Caps, which - just like many other national sports team nicknames - is a knockoff of the All Blacks of rugby. And South Africa's is the Proteas, the protea being its...

On the Wikipedia page for the Argentine national cricket team (the men's one anyway), I see that the nickname for that team is Sunny Ones, much like that of the national football/soccer team is Albiceleste and that of the national rugby [union] team is Pumas. From any of your experience, is...

Is it possible, then, that Anglo-Argentines felt even more of the need to spend vacation time in such a drier climate, with its health benefits such as for those with asthma, than Argentines as a whole, who on the whole have spent more time in Mar del Plata, Punta del Este, etc.?

Why were the Sierras de Cordoba (Cordoba Hills in Anglo-Argentine lingo) more popular among Anglo-Argentine tourists and retirees in the early/mid 20th century than Mar del Plata and other beach resorts along the Buenos Aires province coast, despite being farther away from the city of Buenos...

I know this is nearly six years after this thread was written, and a lot has changed in the South American economies in the meantime. Because Brazil has gone into recession since this thread, and my guess is that things have become cheaper in Brazil, has anywhere Brazil emerged as a more...

What I mean is that in Continental Europe and in Japan, the fertility rate is lower than in other parts of the developed world, and the population there is thus aging (and eventually declining) faster than in other parts of the developed world.

Continental Europeans and Japanese no longer mate so much, to an even greater extent than the British or North Americans or Australians (to name others from the developed world).

The genetic evidence of Argentines' ancestry seems to point out to around 15-20% Amerindian in Buenos Aires and the Pampas, and higher elsewhere. For more, see here. Whereas in the United States, Native Americans listed as just one race make up almost 1% of the total population, and the entire...

So even though Argentina has been profoundly tainted by Peronism these past 60-70 years, that has not quite destroyed Argentina the way that the above wars destroyed Spain and Italy in the 1930s and 1940s?

Someone in another online forum, a white American (originally from Ohio) who has lived in Argentina for 3 years and has gone all over the country as well as in many other Latin countries, has pointed out that a white person from North America or Europe would stand out in Argentina, such that...

If Rosario had become the capital of Argentina, as was proposed (but then vetoed) in 1868, 1869, and 1873, would it have kept "Rosario" as its name or would it have changed its name (e.g. to something like "San Martin" or "Rivadavia")? Would Rosario have more people than it does in real life...

The jacaranda is native to South and Central America, not Asia, but it has been introduced to other warm parts of the world, including parts of Asia, Africa, and Australia. I'm wondering why the ceibo, and not the palo borracho, became the national flower of both Argentina and Uruguay? Also...

Let's ask a related question: If Argentina and/or Uruguay hadn't adopted the Sun of May as the national emblem (to put on flags, coats of arms, etc.), would they have adopted instead the ombú, or the ceibo, or the cortadera, or what (much like Canada has the maple leaf, Australia the golden...

Seems to me, then, that the cortadera is not as well admired by Argentines and Uruguayans as the ombú?

Which is a more culturally significant plant symbol of the Pampas, in Argentina and Uruguay alike - the ombú "tree" or Pampas grass (aka cortadera or hierba de las pampas)?

An update: I now see the British getting Uruguay and the Strait of Magellan region (including Tierra del Fuego - aka Fireland - and the Falklands/Malvinas), but not so much in the way of the rest of Patagonia (since the latter is not nearly as strategic as the Rio de la Plata or the Strait of...

Another way I like to think about the British and other European powers making their rounds of colonizing around the world in the 18th-19th centuries, especially if the British had managed to establish a colonial foothold in the River Plate, is as follows: Mainland Central and South America is...

How could the British remotely control the Strait of Magellan and so forth from the Falklands, given that they're at least 300 kilometres apart (taking at least a couple of days to cross, in those days)? Who or which power directly controlled the strait itself, along with Cape Horn - at least...