Argentina fact of the day
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….