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"Argentina Is White" is a troll statement that implies that most of Argentinian population isn't caucasian. This is often accompanied by depicting Argentinians with very dark skin, or as black people, sometimes with additional features like red lips and long noses.

Origin

Argentina, compared to other South American countries, has a high percentage of the Caucasian population, due to the low amount of native groups that lived in the area, high amount of immigration from European countries in the post-independence era and a low amount of African slaves.^[1] This created a cultural phenomenon within the population of the country, which may claim to be "whiter" (or more European) than other South American and Latin American countries.

Spread

Around 2015, a feud said to be among the Mexican and Argentinian users of the 4chan board /int/ sparked the birth of the meme, which raised in popularity throughout the web as numerous of caricature images and copypastas were made (shown below).

On February 26th, 2016, one of the most infamous copypastas was used on the board /pol/ as reply to an Argentinian user who had insulted both America and Brazil in his post, which fueled the popularity of the meme even more (shown below)

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