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In terms of culture and lifestyle, yeah. Many people call Miami "the Capital of Latin America." Buenos Aires is not particularly representative of Latin America
by diego 15y ago
In terms of culture and lifestyle, yeah. Many people call Miami "the Capital of Latin America." Buenos Aires is not particularly representative of Latin America, it's more like a hybrid between LatAm and Europe (you probably agree).
In terms of economic stability, Miami is still part of the US so it's less risky for running a business. Not the greatest place for a startup, but a good compromise for someone who wants to travel to South America frequently.
- tsuipen 15y agoAgain, stereotypical and prejudice. Last I checked, Spain was in Europe.
- hugh3 15y agoHas the parent been edited, or is this remarkably non-sequiturial? I read the parent several times looking for a mention of Spain, couldn't find it.
- tsuipen 15y agoCould it be you're (gasp!) not informed instead of it being "non-sequiturial"? Saying Miami is more Latin American than Buenos Aires is stereotypical and prejudice because this statement suggests there is something intrinsically Latin American about Latin America. Latin America is a huge space (a population of 580,086,590 which the parent seeks to generalize), there are various cultures and subcultures, various languages and dialects. Whatever J. Lo has brainwashed people into thinking is "Latin American" is not all-encompassing and should not be representative of it. Thus, Buenos Aires is just as very Latin American as La Paz or San Juan or Rio de Janeiro or Havana. The fact that more Italians immigrated to Argentina does not make them more "European", since Spain, the country that colonized most of Latin America is European. Since its colonization, Latin America adopted a lot of traditions from Spain and the rest of Europe, thanks to many Latin American governments asking for more European immigrants to "fill the void" and work the land. However, not all countries adopted the same traditions to the same degree and some preferred other European traditions (that could also be shared with Spain, Portugal and the rest of Western Europe). Thus, the statement "Buenos Aires is not particularly representative of Latin America, it's more like a hybrid between LatAm and Europe" is wrong because most of Latin America includes Europe in its transculturation, acculturation, syncretism, miscegenation and hybridity.
- wslh 15y agoSorry Tsuipen, I don't follow your rant: "Thus, the statement "Buenos Aires is not particularly representative of Latin America, it's more like a hybrid between LatAm and Europe" is wrong because most of Latin America includes Europe in its transculturation, acculturation, syncretism, miscegenation and hybridity." If you travel to different Latin American countries you'll realize the difference beyond any forced formalization/logic of a statement.
- tsuipen 15y agoNot only have I traveled to different Latin American countries, I am from a South American country. Also, I studied it formally (at university) and have written numerous research papers on Latin American identity, history and culture. And now I have to stop typing because I have to go teach Spanish.
- wslh 15y agoSo, I am impressed that you can't note the difference between Buenos Aires and other Latin American cities, since tourists spot the differences pretty quickly.
- hugh3 15y agoThis whole thing is a silly argument. Buenos Aires is part of Latin America, but it is probably one of the most European of all cities in Latin America. Similarly, Boston is part of the United States, but it's one of the most European cities in the US.
- tsuipen 15y agoWow, I'm surprised. You completely misunderstood what I said. Anyway, I don't think it is appropriate to continue with this subject on this type of site.
- kragen 15y agoMost of Latin America has not just Latin influence but also a lot of American influence. The people are brown not just because they're Moorish or African by ancestry but also because they're American. Most of them speak Spanish, French, or Portuguese, but a substantial number speak American languages like Guaraní, Mapuzungun, Quichua, Aymará, Nahuatl, or Haitian Creole. Most of them practice Catholicism, but in a heavily syncretized form with Catholic saints corresponding to American gods, and a substantial number of them still practice American religions. But all of those things are true only to a tiny extent in Buenos Aires, and a more noticeable but still small extent in the rest of Argentina. This is what genocide looks like. So I wasn't saying that Argentina is more European than Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Cuba, or Miami because it's less Spanish. I was saying that Argentina is more European than Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, or Cuba because it's less American, because none of the things I said in the previous paragraph are true here, and they're still true in those places. The most distinctively American thing about Buenos Aires is that everybody drinks yerba mate. By the way, Diego grew up here in Buenos Aires, where I also live. So however much you may disagree with our conceptions of what "Latin America" means, you can't blame poor J. Lo for them.