Yes and yes, but it's different than racism in the US/Canada/Australia/NZ/Europe.
We don't have the Klan here, but there's a lot of racism none the less, even if it's less violent.
For example, there's a sort of passive racism like when people assume my husband is the help, or that he's
an immigrant because he's mestizo. There's even been a couple times where people have assumed I'm
Argentine and he's not all because I'm white and he isn't.
There's more active but not explicit racism like profiling him if we're shopping, assuming he can't pay for things saying
"Oh, it's expensive" or security guards telling him to check a bag but not me. You notice these things when it happens to
your spouse, and it doesn't to you, in the same store, by the same people, with only difference us being what color we are.
Finally there's the active racism, asking him where he's really from, as if his paternal family aren't the native Argentines,
having walked here from Asia when indigenous peoples first settled the Americas tens of thousands of years before Columbus.
There's also the racism of Argentines blaming people that look like him for everything from drugs, crime, poor school testing
scores, etc. as if white Argentines don't do these things.
Now, this has been his/our experience as a mestizo guy, it's much worse for Black people, whether Brazilian, Senegalese, Haitian,
Dominican, or African Americans visiting on vacation. Yes, it's less open hostility than in the US or EU, but the biggest difference is
that people here unlike in the US/EU are unashamed of their racism/don't think it's racist to do things like stare, ask or touch people/their
hair, make direct comments about people's race, play 20 questions naming every country in Africa to guess where people are from, etc.
Racism is a problem in Argentina, and seeing how upset Argentines online have gotten about the accusations of it, instead of the fact
people think it's acceptable to say "Bolivianos y Paraguayos de mie..." in public show just how out of touch people are with reality.
In the early 2010s I came to Argentina for the first time and saw Blancaflor in Dia and literally said "What the fuck?" and my friends didn't
understand why I was shocked. Molinos didn't redesign the packaging until like 2-3 years ago, and people got really angy so, take that as an example of how some people here see racism as a none issue
