Speaker 1: All right.
I have a story today from my birth country of Argentina.
And it is unfortunately just like the worst of the worst of the stereotypes about Argentineans.
One of the stereotypes about Argentineans is that they we love to set ourselves apart
from the rest of Latin America and say the rest of Latin America, you know, these are
Hispanic people, but we're actually European now.
It's an exaggeration.
It's a stereotype.
It's extraordinarily xenophobic and and racist, quite frankly.
And the current Argentinean president, Alberto Fernandez, did exactly this during a meeting
with the Spanish prime minister, Alberto Fernandez tried to sort of find common ground and to
connect with the Spanish prime minister by highlighting, hey, we're European like you
guys.
And in so doing, he said, you know, the Mexicans are just the Indians.
The Brazilians came out of the jungle.
We came on boats from Europe.
We're different.
And it is just the worst of the worst.
Now, many if you've been watching this show for a while, you know that I am not a Fernandez
guy.
Fernandez is in the line of Cristina Kirchner and her late husband.
I'm not I'm not a Kershner guy now.
I'm also not a Marcotti guy.
I think that basically in Argentina for decades now, the choices have been different types
of corruption, different degrees of corruption, none of which serves the people.
This is controversial among even within my family, where there are people who are big
Cristina, people who now is the vice president.
They just love Cristina.
And they're going to write to me because I'm saying this and say I'm wrong about this.
I'm wrong about that.
It's one of the most disgusting regimes that that I've seen.
But I'm not a marketing guy.
He did some good municipal projects, but it's not like I'm cheering about center right sort
of trump Trump style marketing.
So in any case, let's get into the video.
I'm going to sort of translate, I guess I would say, as we go, there are some English
auto generated subtitles, but I will do my best to kind of let you know what's being
said.
Check this out.
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Speaker 1: So here he is basically saying, listen, Argentina, as part of Latin America,
we are pro Latin America, we are Latin American.
But me in particular, I'm also a Europeanist is the word that not a pianist, a Europeanist,
because I want we consider ourselves part of Europe.
Let's continue.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you get in.
Speaker 1: I believe in Europe.
Speaker 2: Forget about it when I was your boss.
Speaker 1: So now he's quoting Octavio Paz, but he clearly likes it.
And here's where it gets bad.
Speaker 2: Carlos Ichinose said he the seniors leaders said you don't what it was.
You know, Speaker 1: this.
This if.
If.
If you were to do a parody and say what a stereotype about Argentineans, could we exaggerate
to make Argentineans look as bad as possible, this would be the script, which would be,
you know, they say the Mexicans came from Indians, nade natives and Native Americans,
Indians.
However, whatever whatever phrase is, is appropriate now to refer to the native peoples.
Brazilians came out of the jungle as if you cannot imagine a more sort of primitive imagery.
But, you know, we Argentineans, we came from boats that came from Europe, which, of course,
is coded with racial language.
And it's just absolutely nuts.
Let's listen to just the end of it.
Speaker 2: You know, yes.
We want to see the.
Europass here in Denver, I don't really know, but this
Speaker 1: is just the worst, the worst, the worst of just sucking up to the idea of of
we listen, we developed we came from Europe and we developed the country with European
investment.
And it's just so racialized and so xenophobic and so disgusting.
And in a sense, it's not it it's it's not even an attack.
It's it's just this offhanded of signal as to how he views Brazilians and Mexicans in
comparison to Argentina.
And I'm so humiliated by this that this is so embarrassing because among friends who
understand the stereotypes about Argentina, sometimes there are jokes made about stuff
like this.
And, you know, if you go to Argentina and you see there's essentially no what we would
consider black folks in Argentina, there's a reason why it's disgusting.
It's horrible the history of it.
And, you know, there's a lot of historical stuff here that it would be great not to associate
with.
And then he just sort of like says what for many of them is supposed to be the quiet part
completely out loud.
I mean, just just absolutely humiliating and disgusting.
This guy is horrible.
It's horrible.
And by the way, if you want to if you want to see corruption on a scale that would make
it would even make Trump blush.
OK, look at what's been going on with vaccination in Argentina.
Just just look it up and see what you think.