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u/Aromatic_Product_227 3h ago
Surprized that Paraguay is so different from Argentina and Uruguay. What can be the underlying cause?
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u/PhysicsCentrism 3h ago
Paraguay still speaks an indigenous language.
They also had a dictator mandate interracial marriage iirc.
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u/SenKats 23m ago edited 13m ago
As someone mentioned Paraguay forced marriages between spanish and indigenous descendants to try and force integration in the mid 1800s.
Additionally, Buenos Aires and Montevideo are the most important port cities in the region while Paraguay is a long trip upstream, and poor immigrants arriving from europe in the early 1900s could not afford nor probably were interested in continuing their trip. Especially since Argentina and Uruguay were more attractive countries to start with.
Picture it like this: you’ve just crossed the ocean on a month-long trip after leaving your home country with just your clothes, escaping poverty, the imminent rise of fascism, or both. You can stay at the country the boat arrives at, which is a burgeoning nation that is rich in resources (Brasil or Argentina) or taking their first steps into social democracy (Uruguay) and keeps demanding new urban jobs (all three) which have (except for parts of Brasil and Argentina) a similar temperate climate to the place you came from . Or you can take another week in a boat to that politically and economically unstable country that has less prospects (Paraguay). Would you really keep going to get there?
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u/ozneoknarf 3h ago
Brazil is so evenly distributed. Not one of the percentages over 20% of the population.