It's funny to read "white" Argentines explaining to us all how those terms aren't racist, but "endearing" and that they are part of "our" culture.
The people whose opinions would matter to me would be the Paraguayans, Bolivians, Peruvians, etc. who have to be subjected to them. My guess is they won't find them quite as "endearing" and "inoffensive" as bajo and matias seem to think.
This thread reminds me of a cab ride I had a several years ago a few days after returning to Buenos Aires from Spain. The driver was going on and on about how Peruvian immigrants were destroying the country, causing crime, taking jobs, etc. The irony was I had heard the same speech from a Spanish cab driver two days earlier, who said the same thing about Argentines.
The people whose opinions would matter to me would be the Paraguayans, Bolivians, Peruvians, etc. who have to be subjected to them. My guess is they won't find them quite as "endearing" and "inoffensive" as bajo and matias seem to think.
This thread reminds me of a cab ride I had a several years ago a few days after returning to Buenos Aires from Spain. The driver was going on and on about how Peruvian immigrants were destroying the country, causing crime, taking jobs, etc. The irony was I had heard the same speech from a Spanish cab driver two days earlier, who said the same thing about Argentines.