Talk:English settlement in Argentina

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I think that 100,000 are only the number of Argentines of single English ancestries. Argentines who are part English and part other (Italian, then French, Basque, German, Yugoslavian, Greek, Portuguese and most of all, Spanish) are much higher. If someone could find a reliable source it will be great!. - signed by an anon IP

This is a good article, but you're correct on the English Argentines are somewhere in 9th or 10th place in the list of ethnic ancestries in that diverse country. English immigration went to other Latin American nations, but not as dense and popular like Argentina, although I wish to read the situation of English settlement in Mexico, Brazil, Panama and Venezuela. True, the high number of "famous" English Argentines isn't an attempt to patronize British people over Hispanic people, so I don't think there's a racist message in the article (oh no, they are part of its' Euro-Latino/Hispanic heritage of South America). British cultural influences are obviously there in Argentina, but don't forget the Rock en espanol music genre seems to originate either from Spain, Mexico... and Argentina, especially the British rock influences (the 1960s and again the 1990s after improved diplomatic relations with the UK) is an example of what some Argentines claim they have Anglophilia.+ 63.3.14.1 08:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Same goes to Chileans, despite the official demographic record said Chileans are highly mixed-race (mestizos from Amerindian ancestors), and ethnicity (but Uruguay had more European immigrants than Chile). But I've read under 30,000 Chileans are of English descent and some 20,000 of Irish descent. In Chile, most politicans (presidents Allende, Aylwin, Bachelet, Frei and son Ruiz-tagle, and Pinochet are surnames not of Hispanic origin), engineers, land owners, business managers, athletes, actors and musicians are descendants of Europeans...you may find an English surname (the [[Alejandria Cox incident]], a woman caught in a scuffle with Chilean army officers just before the 1973 coup when Augusto Pinochet took over the country) or a name like Bernardo O'Higgins, the famed liberator of Chile in the early 1800's is indeed of Irish descent. + 63.3.14.1 08:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)