WTF, this is so racist

[eva_rosen]

I've seen an article making the rounds,asking why there isn't any black players in Argentina's soccer team. It came as a surprise to us, as a country, to learn we are by any stretch of the imagination 'white'. The vast majority of the country is what you would call 'mixed race', and 'negro' (blackie) is a common term we use to call each other. We are, in truth, mostly an 'ambiguously brown' nation. But since we don't neatly fit in the narrow black or white category of most racist people (of any skin colour), there must be something wrong with us. What this is, as always, is a failure to consider your part of the world and its circumstances are not universal. But I don't think that smug navel-gazing will end anytime soon. Or ever.