Argentina fact of the day

by on January 2, 2006 at 6:59 am in History | Permalink

Circa 1910, percentage of Buenos Aires school children with two parents born in Argentina: 21 percent

Circa 1910, percentage of Buenos Aires school children with two parents born in Italy: 41 percent

That is from Ivonne Bordelois´s El pais que nos habla, a study of the evolution of Spanish in this wonderful, wonderful country.  But I am on my way home now, so we will move on to blogging about other locales, including good ol’ Washington D.C….

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