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The Argentines Descended from the Boats: Migration in Argentina

The Argentines Descended from the Boats: Migration in Argentina

In Argentina, 4th September is Immigrants’ Day, to commemorate the diverse waves migrants who have formed the demographics of the country’s population. Kelsey Jost-Creegan investigates.

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Top 5 Ways to Blend in as a Porteño

Top 5 Ways to Blend in as a Porteño

The porteño culture has a rich and complex history. Its myriad culture lends itself to in depth study and understanding….but this is a top five and we haven’t got time for that. So here’s our guide to faking it as a native in Buenos Aires in under 1000 words. Forget the obvious stuff like learning castellano or moving to Argentina, here’s the advice you really need.

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Tourism and Tango: Dream Partners or Four Left Feet?

Tourism and Tango: Dream Partners or Four Left Feet?

As the Buenos Aires Tango Festival kicks off this week, Kate Beioley wonders: is tourism helping to keep tango culture alive, or is it killing it?

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Quinceañeras: The Coming-of-Age Business

Quinceañeras: The Coming-of-Age Business

Alex Glynn investigates the phenomenon of the 15th birthday, and discovers the coming-of-age ritual common in Latin societies is very much alive an well in Argentina.

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Ramadan Mubarak: Observing The Month-Long Fast in Buenos Aires

Ramadan Mubarak: Observing The Month-Long Fast in Buenos Aires

Beginning today, many Argentine Muslims will observe Ramadan, a thirty-day period of abstinence from food, drink and sexual activity from dawn to sunset. Kelsey Jost-Creegan finds out more.

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Five Minutes With: Hernán Botbol

Five Minutes With: Hernán Botbol

Hernán Botbol, founder of giant virtual community Taringa! and its English-language sister site, Socialphy, spends a few minutes to answer some quick-fire questions from Kristie Robinson.

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Medieval Argentina

Medieval Argentina

Jessica Sequeira looks at the intrigue of medieval Europe that exists in Buenos Aires due, in part, to the obsessive research of 20th century historian Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz.

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Top 5 Argentine Inventions

Top 5 Argentine Inventions

Thinking beyond mate, Maradona and meat, Robin Minchom brings you this week’s Top 5 of very valid, but not necessarily widely known, Argentine inventions.

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Top 5 Beards of Argentina

Top 5 Beards of Argentina

The bearded faces of Argentina’s history, politics and literature come under Allendria Brunjes’ close analysis as she makes her pick in this week’s Top 5.

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Why They Fought

Why They Fought

In an historical piece, Jessica Sequeira reflects on the May Revolution of 202 years ago, and the intellectual influences of the time.

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