Geography Archived TIL that Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Geography Archived TIL that Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted ago by mr_skeltal
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[–] mr_skeltal [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Haha, I remember seeing in a thread elsewhere you said you're South American born. Are you Argentinian if you don't mind me asking?
[–] Warden 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Yeah, born, raised and currently living. I don't like it much here and it's not the best place to live, but hey, gotta work with what's given.
I was actually surprised when I saw your post, had to do a double-take: wait, an Argentina post... ON MY VOAT FRONTPAGE? I'm not exactly "patriotic", or proud of what our governing rulers say and do, but seeing my country is slightly relevant here on voat gives me the fuzzies.
[–] zeitsieben 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Pele > Maradona.
Just kidding. I actually don't like soccer. Nice to see a fellow south american around here. I have to say: your beef and potatoes have some evil magic in then... went to Buenos Aires and that's all I had.
Now let's talk about that Cisplatina deal...
[–] mr_skeltal [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Haha well funnily enough I was doing some reading about Argentina because I am playing a game of Europa Universalis 4 (I dunno if you're familiar with it, basically you lead a country and fight wars, expand, etc. from 1444 to 1821) and wanted to see how ahistorical my game had gotten. It turns out, VERY ahistorical! Brazil, Colombia and Rio de la Plata (Argentina, for the sake of non-Argentinians who might read this) were all Portuguese colonies in my game and teamed up against Portugal to all get independence in 1650 or so and now Brazil are colonising the west coast of the US and Rio de la Plata declared me (I am playing as Ottoman Empire) as their rivals! So I was reading the actual history of Argentina and it's quite different to that!