[OC] Three Latin American countries are among the 5 most unequal on Earth. More so than so-called Gulf states and even Russia with its oligarchs.TrinityF t1_j746fas wrote
Reply to comment by dethblud in [OC] Three Latin American countries are among the 5 most unequal on Earth. More so than so-called Gulf states and even Russia with its oligarchs. by latinometrics
Honestly, I have no idea who lives in Uruguay, what they do, what the country does and how they live in such seemingly remote obscure area, from my comfy chair in Europe.
The only thing heard of it that intrigued me was people saying the country’s architecture is like Europe but in South America and the people living there look like people from Spain mixed with indigenous minorities.
... And TIL: Uruguay has a Florida. And their winter are warm, and their summers are cold, compared to the Northern Hemisphere. When Europe is having their summer in the middle of the year, Uruguayans are enjoying the coolest weather of the year.
This is all quite fascinating.
I had once planned to take time off and spent a year travelling in South America, but then I got married 😥 I wanted to go to the most southern point of South America.
dethblud t1_j74a3sw wrote
Yep, Uruguay is an amazing place. Great food, good standard of living, progressive and representative government. I really want to go back.
Maximum-Mixture6158 t1_j76ss29 wrote
I guess cost of living is really high.
LittleOneInANutshell t1_j79x2rn wrote
Just learnt it's a rather small country by population and half of it lives in and around the capital. Maybe that helps?
DataMan62 t1_j755u2j wrote
You do understand that summer in the Southern Hemisphere happens during our winter and vice versa??
TrinityF t1_j7aevj6 wrote
It's safe to say that I did, in fact, not know that.
DataMan62 t1_j7ew8gz wrote
Look up the Earth's axis tilt and how it and the earth's revolution around the sun combine to cause the sun to appear to move northward from (Northern) winter solstice to summer solstice and southward from June 20 to Dec 20. I guess I was lucky that Mrs. Collins spent a lot of time on the Earth and the Solar System in 3rd grade.
beepbeepboopbeep1977 t1_j75fnzs wrote
Yeeeaaah, but I think I prefer ‘cold summer’ and ‘hot winter’. Then I can say stuff like “next cold summer let’s go skiing in Queenstown”. It’ll be weird at first, but I reckon it’ll really catch on. And then we can finally have Christmas in winter, just like in the movies!
atraviliario t1_j757ob4 wrote
... any country colonized by Spain will look like that. Cause, yk, they killed almost all the indigenous people. It's nothing special. You can also learn today that in all of the south hemisphere the seasons are "reversed". It isn't that the summers are cold, it's winter here and summer where you are, at the same time.
EpsomHorse t1_j75stuf wrote
> ... any country colonized by Spain will look like that.
You need to do some backpacking!
Argentinians are indeed mostly European, because (1) there was almost no slavery there, (2) the country carried out a genocide against its indigenous population between about 1870 and 1890, and (3) it received massive numbers of European immigrants between about 1880 and 1930.
The average Chilean, on the other hand, has about a 44% indigenous admixture and a 55% European one, with 1%-2% African DNA.
Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and much of Central America is even more indogenous than Chile.
The Dominican Republic's population is almost entirely of African descent.
And so on.
Latin America is tremendously heterogenous.
CreepySecretary7697 t1_j75jifv wrote
not necessarily. Peru was also colonised by Spain and they have way more indigenous traits than Uruguayans. Uruguay is the whitest country in Latin America, and if you go there you’ll see everyone looks just like Spaniards and Italians, due to the immigration Uruguay received from these countries.
Dumguy1214 t1_j75kmjy wrote
some parts of the church tried to babtise them and educate
they would die of common cold en mass
LVMagnus t1_j76eldj wrote
Maybe take the partner on said trip? The two are hardly mutually exclusive, and if your partner tells you it is them or your dreams, maybe reconsider life choices 🤷
CptCarpelan t1_j7hps9p wrote
Wait until you hear about Paraguay. At least the reason for their obscurity can be explained since Brazil stole their entire national archive in the 1870s after the coalition war.
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