Oh god what do I know about Argentina... I actually learned absolutely nothing about the country until university, and even then I'm on shaky ground. Forgive me!
Presumably, what is now Argentina was conquered by the Spanish sometime in the 1500s or 1600s. There were silver mines? Bad stuff happened?
After achieving independence from Spain in the early 1800s, the country had difficulty defining its own culture as distinct from the colonizers. It was of utmost importance to write original literature... which was difficult because so little of the populace was literate at the time, the educational system having been neglected by the Spanish overlords.
Um... something about the Quechua language being encouraged? I AM ASHAMED AT MY LACK OF KNOWLEDGE HERE HAVE A VIDEO OF TWO KINDLY OLD MÉTIS PEOPLE HAVING A CONVERSATION IN MICHIF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFUGfkRQ4RE
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Date: 2011-02-15 05:12 am (UTC)Presumably, what is now Argentina was conquered by the Spanish sometime in the 1500s or 1600s. There were silver mines? Bad stuff happened?
After achieving independence from Spain in the early 1800s, the country had difficulty defining its own culture as distinct from the colonizers. It was of utmost importance to write original literature... which was difficult because so little of the populace was literate at the time, the educational system having been neglected by the Spanish overlords.
Um... something about the Quechua language being encouraged? I AM ASHAMED AT MY LACK OF KNOWLEDGE HERE HAVE A VIDEO OF TWO KINDLY OLD MÉTIS PEOPLE HAVING A CONVERSATION IN MICHIF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFUGfkRQ4RE