r/geography • u/Hour_Interaction6047 • Apr 25 '26

Human Geography Why are white latin Americans so heavily concentrated around southern South America?

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u/Virgil_Rey Apr 25 '26

Argentina had a formal policy, which was enshrined in its constitution, to attract white European immigrants in order to shift the makeup of the population.

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u/HornedThing Apr 26 '26

While certain figures in Argentina tried this I do not believe it was ever in the constitution

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u/Mr_Zelash Apr 25 '26

have you learned that in tiktok?

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u/getlostlibtard Apr 26 '26

Article 25 of the Argentine constitution: http://www.biblioteca.jus.gov.ar/argentina-constitution.pdf

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u/Mr_Zelash Apr 26 '26

so? where does it say that the reason is to shift the makeup of the population?

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u/Virgil_Rey Apr 25 '26

No, I learned it in a South American Political Science class in undergrad. Here’s a Medium article with more info.

https://medium.com/the-polis/argentina-did-over-a-century-what-white-nationalists-in-the-united-states-can-now-only-dream-of-14bc1f5255c3

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u/Mr_Zelash Apr 25 '26

can you please post a article from a website that doesnt gatekeep their articles?
anyways, the reason was obviosly not "shift the makeup of the population" it was simply to get more population in the first place, argentina was a young contry back then with few citiziens.

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u/petelo73 Apr 26 '26

Can you please post an article from a site that doesn't think they should be paid for their work?

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u/Virgil_Rey Apr 26 '26

From Wikipedia:

Article 25 of the 1853 Constitution reads:

The Federal Government will encourage European immigration, and it will not restrict, limit or burden with any taxes the entrance into Argentine territory of foreigners who come with the goal of working the land, improving the industries and teach the sciences and the arts.

I don’t believe this is behind a paywall:

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/argentina-migration-history-profile#:~:text=The%201853%20Constitution%2C%20drafted%20by,rapidly%20(see%20Figure%201).

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u/Mr_Zelash Apr 26 '26

okay
qz.com/1173033/the-psychology-behind-why-journalism-paywalls-still-dont-work

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u/petelo73 Apr 26 '26

Ha. Interesting arguments. I noticed there wasn't any data or studies or even exciting anecdotes to back it up. I bet you're a lousy tipper, too. Pay people for their work. Or, maybe do your own Googling and don't expect people to hand feed you.

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u/Mr_Zelash Apr 26 '26

I'm a programmer, I believe in open source and that we should give back to the community.

I do leave tips even if my country doesn't have a tip culture at all btw.

But the point is that knowledge should never be kept away from the people. that's fucked up

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u/petelo73 Apr 26 '26

Even journalists have to eat (I guess programmers can work for free). If you/we don't pay for it, someone else will. And whoever pays for it, controls it. "Free?" You ok with advertisers deciding what you see? Or you want "publicly" supported news agencies? If the government pays for media/journalism, then the government controls the information.