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| Total population | |
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| 100,000[1] | |
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| Mainly Buenos Aires[citation needed] | |
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| Argentine Spanish · Rioplatense Spanish · English (minority)[citation needed] | |
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| Catholicism, Protestantism (Episcopalianism, Methodism, Presbyterianism)[citation needed] | |
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| Scottish Argentines, Welsh Argentines, Irish Argentines |
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English Argentines (also known as Anglo-Argentines) are citizens of Argentina or the children of Argentine citizens brought up in Argentina, who can claim ancestry originating in England. The English settlement in Argentina (the arrival of English emigrants),[2] took place in the period after Argentina's independence from Spain through the 19th century. Unlike many other waves of immigration to Argentina, English immigrants were not usually leaving England because of poverty or persecution, but went to Argentina as industrialists and major landowners.[2]
The United Kingdom had a strong economic influence in Argentina during the Victorian period.[3] However the position of English Argentines was complicated when their economic influence was finally eroded by Juan Perón's nationalisation of many British-owned companies in the 1940s and then by the Falklands War in 1982. Notable Argentines such as presidents of Argentina Raúl Alfonsín and Carlos Pellegrini, adventurer Lucas Bridges, Huracan football club former player and president Carlos Babington and writer Jorge Luis Borges are partially of English descent.[citation needed]
- ^ Chavez, Lydia (23 June 1985). "Fare of the country; Teatime: A bit of Britain in Argentina". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 December 2007. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
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