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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > The people > How was the country formed? >
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The Argentine identity is still being formed by the diverse roots of the many different people who live there. There are those of Indigenous heritage who lived here before the arrival of the conquistadores and those who descend from the first Spanish...
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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > History > Time line >
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The first inhabitants | The colonial period | The Revolutionary Period | The Revolution of May | Unitarians and Federalists | Rosas' period | National Organization | The National Constitution | The Conservative Republic | The Vote: secret and mandatory | The Infamous Decade | The Radical Period |...
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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > Language > Argentine spanish >
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How? Listening, watching television and doing research on the Internet. On reality shows, in magazines and newspapers: Castellano is everywhere. You hear it as it continuously changes with the times and political, social and economic situations. It...
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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > Culture > Music > Folklore, music of the country >
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It is known that the tango is the music of the city, but folklore reveals the more hidden aspects of the rest of Argentina.
From the "payadores" (singers who are in a duel of spontaneous verses while playing guitar) that improvise their poems...
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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > Cuisine > Argentine Cuisine >
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Social life in Argentina is intimately related with food. They like to go out, have fun and enjoy good food and good cooking, which they do often.
A plate of pasta or a barbecue are common food for a family at noon on Sunday. They get together in...
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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > Wines >
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The wineries are harvesting as the vineyards begin to put on red hues and the sun reduces its intensity. It is the ideal moment to visit Mendoza. Treat yourself to a second honeymoon among the beautiful landscapes and vineyards.
And why a second...
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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > Sports > Soccer >
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Soccer is the true passion of Argentines.
It gathers friends and family to watch or play it. In Argentina, a soccer ball is one of the first presents a boy receives at birth, and from then on, it becomes his favorite toy whether he continues playing professionally or not...
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It is a sport of simple resources; to play you only need a ball, made of paper or rags, because the field is “set up” at any place and iron post or nets are unnecessary... only an enthusiasm “to kick”. It can be played one against one or eleven...
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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > Education >
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This section offers you everything you need to know in order to study in Argentina: where to do it, and how to transfer foreign degrees or make ones obtained in Argentina valid in other countries in the world. A complete guide on education in...
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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > Design >
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The phenomenon is supported by an important aesthetic tradition, by the large amount of young people who study design in university and master’s programs and the paradoxically beneficial effect of the 2001 economic crisis. Neighborhoods like Palermo...
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ABOUT ARGENTINA > Argentina and its people > Health & Beauty >
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Argentina's extensive territory was consolidating the identity of its population starting with the distinct waves of immigration which fused with the native communities. It is essential, when one engages in this topic of discussion, to include the...
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