Quote: (05-03-2017 02:11 AM)Going strong Wrote:
Quote: (05-02-2017 08:37 PM)Bycicleguy Wrote:
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Quote: (05-02-2017 11:47 AM)Mekorig Wrote:
Talking about necrothreading...
@Jariel: Agree with Going Strong. El Negro Falucho is, at best, a mention in the country´s history, if the legend is true (some historians challenge his existance)
As for racism against black guys, as most of them are from the USA or Brazil, and you dont see too much of them, thye remain a curiosity, and you will not get any bad wive against you. You can hear a "negro de mierda" (dammed nigger) from time to time, but it is against the abo-mixmed population, not against actual black people.
That said, this is sloooowly changing thanks to the african inmigration we are getting in the last years, as most of them resort to sell baubles and fake bijoutery in the street, and they can be quite rude. I am meeting more people that curse those africans more and more.
When I used to live there, the vast majority of the black population was from the Dominican Republic and Brazil. I don't remember seeing one African and there were a few African American exchange students, but not many. Bear in mind, that that was many years ago. Also, that guy is not a national hero. Where is there a street in the entire Capital Federal named for that guy? I don't remember seeing one and never heard of one. We all know about Avenida Eva Peron. I went to school there.
I have seen them too, it seems to be a relatively new phenomenon, you just need to walk on the principal avenues on the center to see lots of them selling counterfeit glasses, to be honest I never saw them causing too much trouble besides their shady business, seeing lots of them on the street just made me think about how lax are the Argentinean immigration policies, really almost anybody can go there and get a residency permit.
Actually, those African migrants you now see (illegally) selling stuff (glasses?? don't be naive, they sell marijuana) in Buenos Aires, have usually entered through Brazil... Brazil has direct air-links to Africa, and sadly, let many poor, unskilled Africans easily enter the American continent.
After that, you find these Africans emigrating, legally or usually not, throughout the continent, some even trying to make it to the US border. Mexico actually gives them transit-visas, in order for them not to remain in Mexico (clear racialized thinking from Mexico here, "let's get rid of Africans")
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/09/1...alifornia/
"many of the unvetted migrants are from the terror hotbed of Somalia. Rather than having to hide along the way, the African migrants have been getting a special permit from Mexico that gives them a free pass to the U.S. border.
The influx of asylum seekers from African countries who entered Mexico illegally has been building for several weeks as hundreds of individuals continue to arrive primarily to Mexicali to cross into Calexico, California, in order to seek asylum. Mexican immigration authorities have been spotted ferrying the asylum seekers from shelters and plazas to international bridges with the U.S."
Worth its own thread:
http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/mexico-gives-...-s-border/
"Mexico gives African migrants 20-day pass to get to U.S. border"
You also have Haitian mafias organizing illegal migrations to South American countries, like... Chile. Chile now has a burgeoning Haitian problem!
Look I appreciate Argentina for a lot of things. You can get as mad as you want and put blame on whatever country you want but the fact is that is hard to find a more friendly country to immigration in the region than Argentina. They have laws to encourage immigration (granted those laws where thought for European immigration, but they are used as an excuse for lawyers today to help any kind of immigration) Just look at the statistics and compare Argentina with countries of similar GDP like Chile or Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so...population
In Brazil getting a visa for non-Mercosur citizens is so hard that when the country was on the boom a couple of years ago it wasn't difficult to find forums of foreign people discussing getting married to be able to be able to stay (though I think there were some visas for very qualified people too but the country is very protectionist, Haitians and Cubans were an exception). in Argentina, you just need to get a job contract (any kind of job as long as it is with a contract) or enroll in a school program (which is not difficult considering that free university is open and without many filters, I think people from non-Spanish speaking countries can just take Spanish courses). Yes, I have read the news about Africans getting to Brazil to cross to the U.S. But seriously, it is Brazil's fault if neither Peru, Guatemala, Mexico or whatever country doesn't stop them on their way? how is our fault that the U.S or Argentina let them in through their borders and then allow them to stay and work without permits selling crap on public streets instead of deporting them?
In Argentina, you have "villas" full of Bolivian, Paraguayan and Peruvian people occupying land and the government doesn't deport them unless they committed a crime, in fact, the recent Macri's law to accelerate deportations was because deportations were taking years even for convicted criminals.
Until very recent years it was perfectly ok to live for years as a tourist, I met a couple of people who stayed for years without being residents, in expat forums you can find information about that, they were called Perma tourists, in fact really, take a look at those forums, you can find information about the kind of stuff some people manage to pull with a good lawyer.