Argentine Americans are citizens or residents of the United States whose origins are in the South American nation of Argentina.
Argentines are just one of over 20 Hispanic national groups — Argentina being the second most populous Hispanic, South American country, after Colombia. Reflecting Argentina's population, Argentine Americans show as much Italian as Spanish cultural influence, which is noticeable, for example, in the Rioplatense Spanish dialect of the natives of Buenos Aires and the southern littoral region.
Most Argentines are descended from colonial-era settlers and of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants from Europe[2][3] Argentines are mostly of Italian and Spanish stock, there are also significant German, British, French, Slavic, and Semitic origins[4]. Argentina, like the United States, is a country of immigrants[5] and a melting pot of different nationalities. As a result, Argentines -like Americans- don't take their nationality as an ethnicity, but they identify themselves with both, their nationality and their family's origins. Argentina's population also includes Amerindians, such as the Mapuche (see Demographics of Argentina[6][7])
The profile of the Argentine American population is generally similar to the overall U.S. population's. Among the key differences, however, is educational attainment. There, Argentine Americans exhibit a rate of 39.5% of holders of bachelor's, graduate, or professional degrees, contrasted with the 27.5% of the overall U.S. population. The difference is more marked among women: it's 40.2% for Argentine American females, and 26.7% for all U.S. females.[1]
Another major difference is the fact that 69.1% of Argentine Americans are immigrants, which contrasts sharply with the 12.6% of the overall U.S. population.[1]
Argentine Americans had a median household income of $55,044. This is again higher than the national figure, which was $50,740.[1]
[edit] Population distribution
Data for Argentines born in America are available. The twenty U.S. communities of 500 or more people which have the highest percentages of Argentine immigrants are:[8]
- Miami Beach, FL 4.4%
- Sunny Isles Beach, FL 4.1%
- Plantation Mobile Home Park, FL 4.0%
- Bay Harbor Islands, FL 3.5%
- North Bay Village, FL 3.4%
- Key Biscayne, FL 3.4%
- Deer Park, CA 3.3%
- Harbor Hills, NY 3.0%
- Surfside, FL 2.6%
- Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL 2.4%
- Acton, CA 2.3%
- Aventura, FL 2.1%
- Islandia, NY 2.0%
- The Crossings, FL 2.0%
- Thomaston, NY 1.9%
- Ojus, FL 1.9%
- Doral, FL 1.8%
- East Richmond Heights, CA 1.7%
- Lebanon, IL 1.6%
- Mayland-Pleasant Hill, TN 1.5%
[edit] Notable Argentine Americans
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d "United States - Selected Population Profile in the United States (Argentinian)". 2007 American Community Survey. United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201TPR&-reg=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201:414;ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201PR:414;ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201T:414;ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201TPR:414&-ds_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_&-_lang=en&-format=. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
- ^ "CIA The World Factbook 2007; Argentina". https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ar.html.
- ^ "Argentina Macren International Travel". http://www.macrentravel.com.ar/frame_argentina.htm.
- ^ http://www.cels.org.ar/Site_cels/publicaciones/informes_pdf/1998.Capitulo7.pdf CELS - Informe 1998
- ^ Enrique Oteiza y Susana Novick sostienen que «la Argentina desde el siglo XIX, al igual que Australia, Canadá o Estados Unidos, se convierte en un país de inmigración, entendiendo por esto una sociedad que ha sido conformada por un fenómeno inmigratorio masivo, a partir de una población local muy pequeña.» (Oteiza, Enrique; Novick, Susana. Inmigración y derechos humanos. Política y discursos en el tramo final del menemismo. [en línea. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2000 [Citado FECHA]. (IIGG Documentos de Trabajo, Nº 14). Disponible en la World Wide Web:http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/docs/dt/dt14.pdf)]; El antropólogo brasileño Darcy Ribeiro incluye a la Argentina dentro de los «pueblos trasplantados» de América, junto con Uruguay, Canadá y Estados Unidos (Ribeiro, Darcy. Las Américas y la Civilización (1985). Buenos Aires:EUDEBA, pp. 449 ss.); El historiador argentino José Luis Romero define a la Argentina como un «país aluvial» (Romero, José Luis. «Indicación sobre la situación de las masas en Argentina (1951)», en La experiencia argentina y otros ensayos, Buenos Aires: Universidad de Belgrano,1980, p. 64).
- ^ Clarín
- ^ "Primeros resultados de la Encuesta Complementaria de Pueblos Indígenas (ECPI)" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. 2006. http://www.indec.mecon.ar/nuevaweb/cuadros/2/ECPI_res_generales_junio2006.pdf. (Spanish)
- ^ "Top 101 cities with the most residents born in Argentina (population 500+)". city-data.com. http://www.city-data.com/top2/h151.html. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
