I am Uruguayan, and Uruguayans are the closest thing to Argentines. . I believe my story is representative not only of many Uruguayans, but also of many Argentines. My paternal family is 100% of Italian descent, because my grandfather was Italian and my grandmother had four Italian grandparents...
Hello Duarte.The Paraguayan war is an episode that marked the history of my country.
The vision that I have always had is the one you describe: British interests did not want autonomous economic development in South America.
But it also involves other things: the fight of small countries against...
These are my results according to FTDNA. But according to various Gedmatch calculators, my percentages are approximately 79 % European, 18 % Native American and 3 % Sub Saharan African.
Very consistent with the history of my country. My family is from Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. My...
I think that in Latin America, " whiteness" is a matter of appearances. So, if you look white, you are white. We never had something like the " one drop rule" because...there was no way to have something similar. Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, both famous "Conquistadores" married with...
All those considerations makes me think in a photograph published by the NASA , called " The pale blue dot" by Carl Sagan. It was a photo showing what the Earth looks like as seen by one of the Voyager spacecraft. As Sagan said, all our beliefs, our history, our loves and hates, all our lives...
I agree with the role of philosophy. I was referring to the context of Western civilization, based on Christianity, wich later allowed the recovery of the ancient Greek philosophy and the development of the Enlighment. Christian thought was omnipresent, but new currents of thought still developed.
I agree with Tautalus.
I was Catholic, and I was educated in schools of Salesian brothers.
But over time my faith began to decrease, and today I consider myself a deist, since I am not an atheist either. I believe there is "something" that is beyond the scope of our understanding. But I believe...
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