Posted on YouTube: August 13, 2014
Argentina
Argentina is a very large country on the southeast of South America, running from the polar south to the tropical north. The population is very European in ancestry, with roughly half being pure-European in background, and another large section being mostly European in background.
It has a large Arab population (9±%), but which is intermarried and assimilated into the country’s larger demographic This is because it is heavily Maronite (Catholic) Lebanese who assimilate well.
Interestingly, Argentina has around 180,000 Jews – the seventh largest Jewish population in the world – and they can be politically active.
DT-016 La Boca
On YouTube – Mar 9, 2008
La Boca is a working class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, famous for the Tango, a tourist barrio (El Caminito), and a soccer team (Boca Juniors).
Note: Original video was pulled by YT. I had to replace video – July 2016 Cleanup
DT-015 Pair Dancing Tango
There is no way that Sharia can compete with this.
Tamara, the woman behind Syrian refugees
Tamara, the woman behind Syrian refugees in Argentina
Tamara Lalli brings an anecdote by the Santiago del Estero-born percussionist Domingo Cura. The story goes that on Sundays the ground in the Argentine Northern province moves down because Syrian women are cooking the traditional Middle East Kibbe dish as they rhythmically pound the meat and wheat using their pestles and mortars.
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But the homeland Tamara was born in and left when she was 11 years old is changing forcing thousands to flee across its borders and seek refuge in the Southern part of the world as rebel groups continue to defy the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
New immigration: The exodus
Only in the past two years Argentina has received more than 300 Syrian families most of them staying in Buenos Aires. Although visa procedures might turn “bureaucratic”, the South American country is among the few granting assistance to those swelling in the list of this 21st century exodus. “In Europe this is impossible”, Tamara affirms and adds that Arab neighboring countries have long decided to reject entry to her countrymen.
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The Syrian-Lebanese community in Argentina accounts actually for around10 percent of the country’s 40-million population.
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Tamara Lalli is the daughter of Toufic, a Syrian-Lebanese who married Neife, an Argentinean descendant from Syrians. She was born in Yabrud located 80 km north of the capital Damascus. She has two sisters. A non-practicing Muslim, she married an Argentine Christian and allowed her two daughters to choose their own religion. “One is a Christian, the other one is still thinking about it”, Tamara says.
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Clearly, this women assimilated; and so did her daughters, one of whom has already chosen Christianity.