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Ironically, Argentina’s most famous cultural gift to the world – the tango – came from the African influence.The first paintings of people dancing the tango are of people of African descent, Gomes added. On a broader scale, the “elimination” of blacks from the country’s history and consciousness reflected the long-cherished desire of successive Argentine governments to imagine the country as an “all-white” extension of Western Europe in Latin America. ibtimes/blackout-how-argentina-eliminated-africans-its-history-conscience-1289381
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:04:30 +0000

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