Talk:Southern Cone
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Are both Aymara and Quechua spoken in this region? I think not. --N0thingness 07:38, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
isn't this article wikified already?
nope they are not spoken in Argentina
and Paraguay is not a part of the Souther cone nor in geograohical nor cultural terms i'll delete it —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 190.16.20.183 (talk • contribs).
- In northern Argentina and Chile Aymara and Quechua are spoken. Also, Paraguay is part of the Cono Sur. See Spanish article. Mariano(t/c) 10:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Brazil (or part of it) is not integrant of Southern Cone
Officially Brazil don't recognize itself as part of "Southern Cone". Brazil cannot to be separated to be part of that racist geographical "concept", it is continuous, undividable. Racist because it try to invent an false "white" and "european" separation in South America -- well that is impossible to apply to Brazil.
The southern brazilian region is almost so mixed like the entire Brazil. There are many german and italian descendants but the are many african and native descendants too.
The mixed Brazilian people is very different from the uruguaians, paraguayans and argentines. Maybe only in Uruguay there are few african descendants.
That "concept" Southern Cone smells prejudice (neonazism or fascism).
Whatever. Brazil is not part of it.
- I don't know what you mean with Racism. You can't denied that the south of Brazil was populated with more European immigrants that the north. A clear example of that is the Oktober fest, wich is celebrated in the South of Brazil. I truly don't consider the concept of Southern Cone racist, and in any case, that has little to do with the fact of Southern Brazil being part of it. Mariano(t/c) 10:59, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] More about Brazil not being part of the Southern Cone
Although I may question the reasoning behind the previous comments, I support the view that Brazil is not a part of the Southern Cone. The Anglican Church, while admittedly a small voice in South America, does not view Brazil as part of the Southern Cone. Generally, the Anglican Church follows local views on such things. The province of the Southern Cone as described in Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur de las Americas includes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Brazil is a separate province - see Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil for this.
I cannot comment as to the reasons that the various sovereign governments have, but the fact that Spanish is an official language of every country of the Southern Cone while Portuguese is an official language in Brazil. This in itself also forms a natural division between the countries. Therefore, I am reverting the article to one which does not claim any part of Brazil as a part of the Southern Cone. Ringbark 10:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
