No country is entirely free of racism, and Argentina is no exception. Still, one point in Argentina’s favor is that it has not experienced (at least not on the same scale or with the same visibility and institutional influence) some of the phenomena that other societies have suffered from or continue to face, such as:
* a powerful anti-immigration party comparable to Vox in Spain;
* established neo-Nazi networks such as those found in Germany and Austria;
* the long history of the Ku Klux Klan and today’s armed white-nationalist and anti-immigration groups in the United States; or the highly influential far-right groups that amplify the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, claiming that white populations are being replaced by nonwhite immigrants and often alleging that Jews are secretly orchestrating this replacement.
Nor has Argentina, as the current U.S. administration has, adopted a refugee policy that largely excludes people fleeing war and persecution while specifically prioritizing white Afrikaners from South Africa.
Racist people exist everywhere, but that is not the same as racism becoming organized, gaining political influence or being embedded in government policy.
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