Why Anti Blackness Runs Deep in Argentina

It's no secret that Argentina has long taken pride in its European heritage. Argentina’s mythical Eurocentric view of its self image as a white nation with a zero sum history of a black population is obviously definitively false. Why? Because Anti-Blackness runs deep in Argentina. Despite major waves of European migration there are pockets of afro-latino communities in virtually every Latin American country from Chile to Mexico. Countries where significant populations consider themselves of African ancestry are Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, Colombia and Ecuador but on the flip side these 4 countries currently stand out as having significantly less figures than any of the others with at most 1 percent of their populations being of African or mostly African ancestry Chile, Bolivia, Mexico and the highlight of this video Argentina.

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