Message from @Alexander Pechorin
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It’s the passport most used in fraud because of the diversity
Brazil is the same demographic situation as us, only a few more decades ahead.
Yes ^
Argentina has a pretty strong white majority though, from what I’ve read.
Very much
With very little native presence, and almost no blacks.
I go down there with my fiancé for polo. All white.
Outside of the cities at least
Which can be more mixed
@Alexander Pechorin What do the percentages look like?
Well I don’t spend much time in Buenos, which is mixed. The ranches and stuff we visit are nearly 100% white. They look like Germans who have Spanish names
Although, keep in mind, I think “white” as a category is very loose in Latin America and includes middle easterners of all varieties and people who are like a quarter non white.
It can be very easy to get an isolated picture. SA countries are very segregated, including Argentina
Our developer team is all Uruguay based. A few of them moved to Austin and I flew out to see them. Probably half of them looked like me.
Didn't expect that from Brazil
I was under the impression that Argentina is majority white. Not sure where the 30% came from
Stan Lee died
@ThisIsChris I've argued for that in the past
@Jacob it's actually a compelling argument. Also: https://www.thetrueathleteproject.org/uploads/3/1/3/9/31399101/mindfulness-clock-now_4_orig.gif
Deep
Argentinians
@TMatthews I don’t know how accurate that map is, I thought Argentina was whiter than that too.
But yeah I'm actually kind of a fan of the conclusions, getting rid of the timezones. It would make a lot of things easier.
That’s the impression I got when I was there. Though again, there are definitely areas that are very mixed and much darker and more South American.
Well the map says over 85% European ancestry
So 80% doesn't count?
At 80% I'd bet they're indistinguishable
@Jacob what was *your* argument for dropping time zones? Kinda interested in this as a topic now
Probably a German enclave, so many blondes
@ThisIsChris So you can make plans without people in different time zones easily and without risk of getting it wrong
@Jacob yeah, it would be cool too forcing people to think about where the sun will be when they make plans. Like for example, my office hours are relatively stable, and then for some arbitrary reason chosen by the government we all started coming an hour later in the day and leaving an hour later in the day with respect to the sun. Why did we do this, it makes no sense.
Although I guess it's kind of like a currency or a language, it's too keep everyone in sync.
Makes sense when you dont have electricity.
Or clocks
So that for people with regular schedules, now they *all* agree to meet an hour later than they previously did, and they didn't have to coordinate it they just listened to the government's time zone
I heard that part of the reason Spain's economy sucks is because their time zone is wrong and they do everything at weird times because they want to fit in with the other countries use their same schedules
I suspect its more because they mixed too much with Moors
Hm yeah, portugal actually uses a different time zone even though they are right there