Argentina: Ethnicity and Identity

Maybe you saw 'Evita' or watched people dance the tango; perhaps you've heard of Diego Maradona, Jorge Luis Borges, Che Guevara, or gauchos; maybe you've learned about the  "dirty war," the "disappeared" and the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the economic collapse that led people to march through the streets of Buenos Aires banging saucepans, the Malvinas/Falkland war, or the bombing of the Israeli embassy and cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994.  Or maybe you haven't, but now you think you should. We'll talk about these things and you'll understand them in the context of Argentine history. But we'll also ask some questions: what do all these things have in common? How do they originate in the same country, and what makes this country so special? Why are so many of its residents the children of immigrants? How do those immigrants identify themselves? How did they react to the things listred above? And how is Argentina similar and different from the US?

Did you know that 60% of the population of Argentina can trace its roots to Italy?
or that Buenos Aires has the only truly kosher MacDonalds in the world?
or that the trains run on the "wrong side" of the rail because the British designed them?
Did you know that Argentina produces the best beef in the world, but also the best pizza?
or that many Jewish immigrants in the late 1800s saw it as the promised land?
Did you know that the attempts by the British to colonize Argentina were twice defeated?

What else didn't you know?                    This Drew International Seminar will teach you!
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