Riquelme pretty standard-issue Latino. This Anello jerkoff an Argentine Proud Boy or just a shock jock?
He's sort of like a sports talk show host, and soccer match narrator. Also known as a strong supporter of President Milei.
Argentinians calling anyone that's even slightly swarthy "negro" is one of the more bizarre things. Maradona, Riquelme, Aguero, would all get called "negro," just like Mbappe and Camavinga would. It's crazy. I'm sure even Nordic countries care enough to differentiate.
That negative comments were made about a Boca president is newsworthy in Argentina. That racist terms and associations were used is not.
Of course they would. I remember a convo I saw on Stormfront during Trump's run in 2016. There was this Latino guy offering his opinion on this or that and there was this within the thread debate on whether he should be considered White. Maradona himself used a racial slur about Brazilians before some tournament or another. "Let the Negritos come. We'll beat them". I think he tried to slither into an "these terms are common here" defense, or some such. Thing is, if you're evolved or wealthy enough to be able to leave Argentina for more than a month, it becomes your responsibility to conduct yourself like you didn't grow up there, instead of talking about what others do that is similar.
We don't address people by their colour, we address them by their nationality. Or ethnic origin, but only if it has a reason.
Is it bizarre tho? Peron was just one leader in the hide-the-Nazis schemes of post-WWII including the Catholic Church & US intelligence Argentine president Juan Perón spoke out against the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals (1945–1946).[22] The final period of German immigration to Argentina occurred between 1946 and 1950 when Perón ordered the creation of a ratline for prominent Nazis, collaborators and other fascists from Europe. According to Argentine researcher Uki Goñi, who had recently gained access to the country's archives for his 2002 book, Argentine diplomats and intelligence officers had, on Perón's instructions, vigorously encouraged Nazi and fascist war criminals to make their home in Argentina. According to Goñi, the Argentines not only collaborated with Draganović's ratline, but set up additional ratlines running through Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Belgium. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)
This whole discussion reminds me of something that happened in LA several years ago. Not sure if there was a lead up, but a darker Latino who was working his hot dog (or something) cart was pushed over. The person who pushed him was shouting derogatory stuff in Spanish at him, and turns out the guy was a lighter skinned guy from Argentina (I think. Might have been Mexican on Mexican). The self-awareness...smh.
Riquelme and Anello It is true that in Argentina and Uruguay the word negro has a lot of meanings. Depending on context it can be a racist term or a classist term, it can simply mean "dude" (friends would call each other negro, even if one of them is an albino), or it can even be a loving term of endearnment. Anello used "negro" againt Riquelme as a derogatory classist term, to refer to him as a "lower class ignorant person". It's not about skin color in this case. Truth is, if you look at Anello and at Riquelme their skin color is not much different. Sounds like Anello considers himself upper class. In his response, Riquelme had this to say: "Mi hija me dijo que había un hombre nervioso (Anello) hablando de mí. Me dijo que trabaje tranquilo y que soy el negro más lindo del mundo". (My daugher told me that there was a man (Anello) nervously talking about me. She told me to keep working in peace, and that I'm the most beautiful negro in the world.) Riquelme used a play of words, using negro in a context in which it's clearly used as a loving term of endearment, to cleverly counter the way Anello had used it as a classist derogatory term. For an audience of working class people in Argentina and Uruguay, Riquelme comes out as the much classier of the two. Having said that, Boca Juniors is taking Anello and Radio Mitre to court, and they revoked their credentials to do any matches at la Bombonera.
I thought that was the Belgians. I did meet some Dutch people both in Argentina and in the US who were overtly racists and xenophobic. I also met others who were not and were great people.
I think it's a generational thing. Older Argentines still mantain that Maradona is the best and idolize him the most, while younger people (who probably never saw Diego play) are more likely to say the best is Messi. I think you can't argue against Messi's superior results at club level, but having watched both, based on the eye test, at his peak I take Maradona, no doubt about it. Messi has been more consistent throught his career though, and really they both are/were brilliant. BTW, Messi is visiting us in San Jose today. I was contemplating inviting him to an asado, but I heard he turned vegetarian, so it's his loss
I lived in Sint Eustatius (Statia) for about 2 years. The reason Statia was nicknamed the Golden Rock was because of the wealth it generated. It made the crown of the Netherlands filthy rich for about two centuries. It also traded hands around a dozen times between the French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. The island itself has no natural resources to utilize with the exception of a nice deep port with favorable currents where ships could come in and trade. And due to those currents, you can float down to South America. Actually, a lot of slaves sold on soil belonging to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (aka Statia) ended up in South America, according to records at the Statia Historical Foundation In fact, it was THE center of slave trading in the Caribbean until 1863. There is a lot of resentment with the locals that live on the Dutch islands (Saba, Statia, Sint Maarten). I can't speak to the ABC island, but these islands, you could feel the hostility in the undercurrent when they interacted with a Dutch person. It felt like every person who spent time in the Netherlands had a racism/racist-lite story. Whether it was a refusal to get on the elevator with a 6'3 rasta guy, a welfare jab, or "you're one of the good ones" story. Ironically, they loved the royal family but not the government itself. EDIT: And for some reason Belgium was worse. They had contempt w the Dutch tourists, but the Belgians, it was palpable, bordering on outright hostility. I may have known the reason at some point but forgot it now.
Is Messi actually making this change to his diet, or did you just hit him with the worst insult an Argentinian can inflict on one of he countrymen?
Like most of Latin America, few in Argentina know their exact heritage and a lot of the racism is more pretentious than anything else. Close family members vary a fair amount because of this and it's common to have a kid who is "el negro" and another one who is "el gringo". The US is sort of weird about this but in the opposite manner. My brother-in-law had a few scrapes here because his daughter was whiter looking.
Actually he is not strictly a vegetarian, but he significantly reduced in his diet the consumption of meat, which for an Argentine is just as bad. He might as well be a vegetarian. I hope some day he recovers