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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:41 PM
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Did I just hear Tweety say
that all the Argentinians are Europeans. Is he completely mad or just ignorant.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:42 PM
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1. Actually, he's both.
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:43 PM
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3. My thought too, some of each. nt
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:42 PM
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2. I think he is clearly a very stupid man.
But he could also be crazy? :shrug:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:43 PM
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4. Maybe just off his meds? He's been unstable all week. n/t
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Roxy66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:44 PM
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5. You wouldnt think he would be so dumb, having worked w/Carter
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:45 PM
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9. Maybe the indigenous people don't count
in his world.
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:45 PM
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6. "People in this country care about our president and is he OK?"
DAMN YOU, TWEETY, NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH!
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:47 PM
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16. I heard that remark by Matthews.
I don't know why he thinks that!
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sickinohio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 06:07 PM
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25. I love the picture
of that handsome prosecutor - Sure would like to give him a kiss or two!! Don't mind me, just doing a little day dreamin!!

:loveya: He's so cute!
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 06:27 PM
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29. Back off chick!
He's mine! :hi:
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DemFromMem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:45 PM
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7. He's largely correct
The country has a native population, but it has a very large proportion of people who trace their ancestry to Spain, Italy, Germany and Eastern Europe (Buenos Aires has one of the largest Jewish communities in the world - including some of my family).

Visit Buenos Aires and you'll feel like you're in Paris or Rome.
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:47 PM
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12. Well, what you say is also true of Americans but we don't
refer to ourselves as European.
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hopein08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:49 PM
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19. Well put, Lex, I couldn't have put it better myself. eom
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:52 PM
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20. Most people there are second generation of European immigrants. n/t
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DemFromMem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:52 PM
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21. True
I was only commenting on the fact that the country is largely of European stock. What Matthews said that was offensive, however, was that it should have been more successfully economically because it is more "European" than the rest of South America. That sort of makes it sound like people of other ethnicities are not as capable or success economically.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:47 PM
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14. Maybe he should visit other parts of the country.
You ignore the original inhabitants of South America. Damn.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:47 PM
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17. You beat me to the punch. The actual "native" population depends on
your definition. There are relatively few people there that can claim hundreds of years of ancestory there and a huge percent of the population is either first or second generation immigrants from various European countries. To a smaller extent percentagewise the same is true in Brazil.
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:45 PM
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8. Tweety clearly hasn't got a clue, Lou Dobbs does though
He claimed something to the effect that this thrusts the administration into yet another big failure where we don't have a strategy for dealing with fair trade issues in the Western hemisphere (that's the Western hemisphere Tweety, Europe has other isses)
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:46 PM
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10. Oh, Argentinians All Say That
I met an photographer last year who was from Argentina, and one of the first things he said was "we're really not South American -- we're European." Certainly confirmed that stereotype.

What they mean by that is that there's not as high a percentage of Native American blood in the Argentinian population. They're mostly descended from Spanish and other European immigrants rather than from the native population. It's actually a racist attitude, but it's pretty common.
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 06:09 PM
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26. Actually he is wrong. Argentinians are MORE European than actual
Europeans. At least that's what I tell them when they start that bullshit.
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mshasta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:47 PM
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11. HE IS A FUKING ASSHOLE!!
he's an asshole
he's an asshole
he's an asshole
he's an asshole
he's an asshole
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sickinohio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 06:10 PM
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27. He's an
asshole that slobbers WAY too much!! YuK! I can't stand the asshole!
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:47 PM
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13. Isn't Argentina next to Spain?
That's where the Argentinians have that island that the British rescued, you know, the one in the North Sea.....

:crazy:
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:47 PM
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15. Does Tweety refer to Canadians and North Americans as
Edited on Fri Nov-04-05 05:50 PM by DURHAM D
European ?

Maybe he saw Evita.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:48 PM
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18. Argentinia has a varied mix of racial and ethnic groups and native peoples
For example, there are lot of Eastern European Jews who emigrated there. My good friend is Jewish and he was born in Argentina. His grandparents emigrated from Eastern Europe to escape the Rusian and Polish pogroms of the early part of the century. He lives here in the US now. His family left Argentina for Israel (and left there because of war) and then Baltimore to escape the Dirty War.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 06:03 PM
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24. My brother lived and worked there in
the 1980s and I visited. Maybe I was lucky enough to run into the non city groups. The bottom line is that all of the Argentinian population is not European.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:57 PM
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22. Argentina: White (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%...
Edited on Fri Nov-04-05 06:03 PM by Fridays Child
...mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3%

The above statistics are from the CIA World Factbook.

On the other hand, Wikipedia sez:

Recent genetic research, conducted by the University of Buenos Aires, on mtDNA and Y chromosome has also revealed a surprising picture on the Argentine demography. The research indicates that although the Argentine population is overwhelmingly of European ancestry, around 56% of all Argentines possessed at least some Amerindian ancestry.

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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 05:58 PM
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23. I am listening to him and if he were smart, which he isn't, he should
keep his stupid mouth closed. He is reporting on something that he is completely ignorant of.

I had CNN on a bit earlier, and Lou Dobbs, briefly appearing with Wolf, really does get it.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 06:19 PM
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28. Actually, Argentinian is not the right word. It's "Argentine".
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 07:07 PM
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31. Correct n/t
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 06:42 PM
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30. Is he calling the protesters scabs?
I simply refuse to believe he tried to explain bloodlines on TVEE.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 09:19 PM
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32. Send him this photo
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