You’ve probably seen me around, talking a lot of shit about Argentines but, I’ve got to be honest, I’ve always wanted to visit the country. Call it being mentally colonized but as a person born and raised in the Hispanic world, I’ve always had a fascination with the two countries, despite the absolute shite reputation you all have with being chock full of racist, Nazi adjacent weirdos.

I’ve never been to South America and feel like I have to now that I have the free time. I’m completely fluent in Spanish, but I’m a brown, South Asian looking guy from Puerto Rico. Quite frankly, that’s been the source of deterrence for me and I apologize if I sound I hysterical. But I always like to keep an open mind, and if I can moderately survive a shithole such as Texas or Florida, it can’t be that bad…right?

Are there, any ‘left wing’ areas of, for example, Buenos Aires or Montevideo I should visit? Or any no go zones I should keep out of? Or any other under-appreciated cities I should go to?

  • Lussy [he/him, des/pair]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Thanks for the reply

    There’s a couple of barrios that you probably shouldn’t walk alone in, especially at night, but nothing that you probably haven’t already experienced in Puerto Rico.

    That’s not the kind of shithole I’m talking about. To say nothing of the nazis, I’m mostly talking about the kinds of places where you get harassed by intransigent, poorly cultured NIMBYS who act like thugs because someone dared look at their 10 trillion ton water wasting lawns.

    • doleoEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      lol - nah you’ll be fine in Montevideo, in that regard.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Montevideo and Buenos Aires are way less racist than Texas or any American state though. Racism is at least a crime in both Argentina and Uruguay (as for most of LatAm), unfortunely Argentina is ruled by that asshole ancap who is fucking everything up.