There were villages with Germans in them since the 1860's. Many South Americans moved back and forth between their native country and SA home. Heck, Hitler's secretary was actually Argentine. So, when crap hit the fan, many Germans moved to South America to be with family. The same thing happened in world war I as well.
Many South American Germans disagreed with and fought Nazi Germany in the US military. The saying goes they enjoyed the village before the new neighbors showed up.
Going to add another interesting cultural item, the language spoken there is nicknamed Spengleutsch. It's like spanglish only German Spanish. You really will hear things like Ja Si, or Felize Weinacht.
South America has a lot of interesting immigrant groups. Japanese farmers have been in Columbia and Brazil for nearly 2 centuries. In fact, Columbia's president was Japanese at one point. They called him Chinese, because no one knew the difference. He fled to Japan after a coup.
There's a Welsh speaking village in Argentina. Mate and biscuits are served at tea time.
Argentina is so European that there are jokes about it. The major influencer is Italian culture. Even the architecture resembles this. So if an Argentine sees pictures of Italy, he gets home sick.
Really strange way to describe "fled the country on his own after hidden camera footage of ridicalous corruption".
His own precedessor did the same (fled to escape incoming corruption charges).
As for The Chink:
Ethnically, Fujimori presented himself as being outside of the typical white Peruvian criollo elite, framing his Japanese immigrant background as a subaltern position comparable to that of the majority of Peru's indigenous and mestizo population. This kind of identification was produced through campaign events that repeatedly cast Fujimori within an Andean imaginary even though he had grown up and spent all of his professional life on the coast in Lima. One such moment can be seen in a campaign photograph in which Fujimori addresses supporters wearing a poncho and a colorful chullo, the traditional Andean hat. His Japanese heritage and his professional background as an engineer also mobilized the stereotype of the Asian immigrant as hard working, disciplined, and pragmatic. This generic “Asianness” was exemplified by his moniker, El Chino, literally “the Chinaman.” The characterization of this subaltern yet aspirational persona would be further developed in various ways over the coming decade, including through the use of popular music with the cumbia hit El ritmo del Chino, to which Fujimori danced repeatedly at campaign rallies.
History time!
There were villages with Germans in them since the 1860's. Many South Americans moved back and forth between their native country and SA home. Heck, Hitler's secretary was actually Argentine. So, when crap hit the fan, many Germans moved to South America to be with family. The same thing happened in world war I as well.
Many South American Germans disagreed with and fought Nazi Germany in the US military. The saying goes they enjoyed the village before the new neighbors showed up.
Going to add another interesting cultural item, the language spoken there is nicknamed Spengleutsch. It's like spanglish only German Spanish. You really will hear things like Ja Si, or Felize Weinacht.
South America has a lot of interesting immigrant groups. Japanese farmers have been in Columbia and Brazil for nearly 2 centuries. In fact, Columbia's president was Japanese at one point. They called him Chinese, because no one knew the difference. He fled to Japan after a coup.
There's a Welsh speaking village in Argentina. Mate and biscuits are served at tea time.
Argentina is so European that there are jokes about it. The major influencer is Italian culture. Even the architecture resembles this. So if an Argentine sees pictures of Italy, he gets home sick.
Really strange way to describe "fled the country on his own after hidden camera footage of ridicalous corruption".
His own precedessor did the same (fled to escape incoming corruption charges).
As for The Chink:
Yeah, Colonia Dignidad (or its movie version, “Colonia”/The Colony, or the recent TV series) would like a word…
Worth a gander, if you don’t yet know about it…
I didn’t, until I saw the movie… 😑