Does americans know anything about Argentina?
 

Hi

I live in Argentina (i dont born here) and think that most americans dont know nothing about this country, maybe even dont know where it is.
Im right?
Does average american know something about Argentina? Football soccer? Evita? Maradona? Tango? Buenos Aires? Anything?

Im just curious...

There are lots of cattle ranches in Argentina and you guys speak spanish.

Most Americans see all of South America in the same light. Save brazil, we know they speak Portugues(sp?).

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Watch the Woody Allen movie "Bannanas!". Lots of normal SA sterotypes there.

All I need to know about Argentina:
Ya'll got some nice titties down there. I'll bring tourist money soon.
Love,
Chevbone

We also know that they are enough about what americans think of them to start new threads.

they aer in south america right?

I'm pretty sure they aer.

Other than it is in South America, no, I don't know anything about Argentina, because I've never been there, don't live there, never will live there, never will go there, don't speak their language, and have no desire to speak their language.

American's learn about America, some Mexico and Canada, and Europe. Why? They tie directly to America more than most any other place. If we were forced to learn about the other places such as Argentina, we might as well cram stuff about the 191 other countries into our heads. Most Americans will never go to any other place other than America, therefore, most Americans have no need to learn about other countries.

So, yenerich, how much do you know about Latvia?

and yet, kids in germany speak a minimum of 3 languages when they exist school....:rolleyes:

That's their choice. I chose not to.

Given the likely hood of me going to any other county is slim to none, I have no need, or even desire, to speak any other language, except Japanese, simply because I like the language.

no it's not. they have to take two languages. Some take 4.

We have to take two languages, too. English and Spanish, but we aren't required to remember the Spanish. If the Germans are forced to do two to three languages, then it's the government and school system's fault there.

Just becuase some countries take, or are required to take, more languages than the the people in the US, doesn't make them smarter than us. They're teenagers, too, and more than likely, most don't give a rats ass about knowing the other languages they learn, becuase they probably know they aren't going to any other country, too.

Why is there an abundance of these "Do Americans....blah blah..." threads popping up lately? Honestly, who cares?

Do Americans defecate in toilets?

no, we defecate on the English

Yeah, thats why we are pulling you out of your mess in Iraq...

the only thing I know about Argentina is that we kicked your asses in the Falklands War.

Speaking of kicking another country's ass in wars....no, never mind I won't go there. ;)

And don't blame us for our idiot of a President, we didn't vote for him. Well, I didn't at least.

Germans and other europeans learn multiple languages because there are other countries a hundred miles away from them that speak a completely different language. And there is a hig probability that they'll go to those places.

That's not the case in the US. Hence the difference.

I know that Patagonia is in Argentina.

The U.S. needn't learn to speak Mexican or French since Mexicans don't bother to learn English when they swim here and most of Canada needs to be able to understand the hockey broadcasts that America owns anymore.

That's a bit unfair. Especially as you can just as easily learn about Vanuatu as Canada, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with the US. It's worth it because it's interesting to find out about different countries. I think it's damn sad to just consider what borders your country and the ones that have something "to do" with it. Why would you not go to Argentina? It's "too different"? They might not have McDonald's over there? They speak another language? For god's sake, that's exactly why you should go there

Why ignore the world that is different from yours? Surely that's what makes it attractive.

Argentina is part of the axis of evil

Thanks for the anticlimax Germ.

speak MEXICAN???????????????????

People in Mexico dont speak mexican!!

The idea to talk 2 or more languages is important to be less ignorant.

It is!

Alejandro Toledo is a dick.

Argentina is closer towards Antarctica than Canada is...

I rule...Sign me up for the CIA

I'm English, we "know" a fair bit about Argentina what with the war and all. :)

Nah seriously, nice people, crap government (but then so is everybodies thease days) progresive economy... ..er... ..thats it realy...

They like eating loads of meat. They have it for breakfast.

Not you for sure Bilbo.

And Wolfgang we eat meat for breakfast as much as peruvians still make human sacrifices, Inca's stuff you know. Besides, this thread is very funny.. axis of evil? hahaha

I know quite a bit about argentina's football, that's only because I am one of the few people here who play it.... ummm.... Other general things, language, cattle, Buenos Aires,...

I know more about peru because my freind lived their for the first seven years of his life before he came here.

Basically, most of the US doesn't care about the rest of the world because they don't want to, and they are too stupid to realize that it's more important then watching survivor or the WWF or the OC or westwing or CIS or ER or .......

I watch BET...

Get down with the American culture, yo

After reading this thread i have proven my point. The Majority of Americans Don't Care anything about the rest of the world there for showing their ignorrnace and stupidity, lack of education. Don't get me wrong i Love America my son is form the states i was educated there but and also realised that the majority of students in univeristy are form other places of the world, and less form the states. I fell sorry for some of ya.

And By the way just in case, im From Argentina studied in the states speak 4 languages and live in Englad.

But America DOES care about the rest of the world. If the can gain profit they are very interested in other parts of the world. Why else did they fight for example in Vietnam, Europe and the middle-east? Only to gain more profit and a bigger ego on how good they are for the world.

Has nothing to do with ignoring places that are different that mine. Simply put, there are far too many places in the world to be arsed to learn about. I do NOT care to know the history of more than 150 countries and thousands of cities and other places. Fine and dandy to break it down and learn a bit about the major places, such as England, China, Japan, Canada and Mexico given that their major history reflects on a lot of the world's total history, but when you get to places 90+ percent of the world's population hasn't heard of, no since in learning much of anything about it unless you live in or around that place, or that place played a pivotal roll in something that effected a majority of the world.

Why would I not go to Argentina? I don't make that kind of damn money. Dozens of places in the US alone I'd like to go to. But $6 an hour doesn't get me there.

So I ask again, what do you know about Latvia? I know nothing about it at all. Just a name I pulled off of a list of 190+ countries, one that caught my attention because of the odd spelling. My choice, as well as the rest of most of American's choice, to not learn about these places. Far too much stuff TO learn, not to mention 99% of it I would be doing nothing with.

Argentina usta' have one of The best Equestrian Teams, anywhere. Great Horses. And beef, ya' gotta'lot of beef.
You had Evita, which is like glorifying a Nazi. That's all I know!:D

I know that Latvia is one of three small countries on the baltic sea between Finland and Russia. The others being Estonia and Lithuania. They were formerly part of the USSR.

That's about all I know about it, I believe they were extremely devastated during WW2, but then most of the USSR was.

Amen SSJ4

That kind of pragmatic and simple logic must be a big part of the reason why they rule the world while we make threads asking what they know about us.

ROFLMAO

you've got point

Please don't use the Winamp forums as a larger base representative...You might as well believe we're all living in some social hell... :p

I'm not giving my opinion soley from winamp forums, like i said before i studied in the states since i was 15 years old. Have traveld in the use quite extensivly and have taken that opportunity to mingle with locals, and usully found the same answear.



You'd be amazed on how much I know about latvia, and of countires you probaly have'nt heard off. But that is just beacuase it's of my personal interest.

I guess, It all wraps up to the interest of an individual, But if schools parents do not encourage a thist for Knowledge then there is a problem

Most parents do encourage a thirst for knowledge, but a person will only be interested in so many things. I'm not interested in learning about dozens of countries. Never have been, and never will be. I was, however, always interested in science and technology. Have been since 2nd grade, and therefore I learnt a lot about it. You simply don't force a person to be interested in something. Their interest will come naturally. I have no desire to learn about these countries that I will never go to, and it's my opinion that being forced to learn about them in school is wrong, because 99.9% of the students will never use the information about the coutries and even fewer will even GO to the countries (funding being a major factor).