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Do not fill this in! ===Population origin=== {{See also|Immigration in Argentina}} The majority of ''[[porteño]]s'' have [[Great European immigration wave to Argentina|European origins]], mostly from the [[Andalusia]]n, [[Galicia (Spain)|Galician]], [[Asturias|Asturian]], and [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque]] [[Nationalisms and regionalisms of Spain|regions of Spain]], as well as the Italian [[regions of Italy|regions]] of [[Calabria]], [[Liguria]], [[Piedmont]], [[Lombardy]], [[Sicily]] and [[Campania]].<ref>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.''" [http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/pobmigra/archivos/rc31.pdf (Oteiza, Enrique; Novick, Susana. and from Inmigración y derechos humanos. Política y discursos en el tramo final del menemismo. in línea]. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2000 (IIGG Documentos de Trabajo, N° 14): http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/docs/dt/dt14.pdf)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531184634/http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/pobmigra/archivos/rc31.pdf |date=31 May 2011 }}; Ribeiro, Darcy. ''Las Américas y la Civilización'' (1985). Buenos Aires:EUDEBA, pp. 449 ss.; José Luis Romero (Romero, José Luis. "Indicación sobre la situación de las masas en Argentina (1951)", in ''La experiencia argentina y otros ensayos'', Buenos Aires: [[University of Belgrano|Universidad de Belgrano]], 1980, p. 64)</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geographia.com/argentina/buenosaires/Index.htm |title=Buenos Aires Introduction |publisher=Geographia.com |access-date=9 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423185302/http://www.geographia.com/argentina/buenosaires/Index.htm |archive-date=23 April 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> Unrestricted waves of European immigrants to Argentina starting in the mid-19th century significantly increased the country's population, even causing the number of porteños to triple between 1887 and 1915 from 500,000 to 1.5 million.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Solberg |first=Carl |date=May 1969 |title=Immigration and Urban Social Problems in Argentina and Chile, 1890–1914 |journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review |publisher=Duke University Press |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=215–232 |doi= 10.2307/2510818 |jstor=2510818}}</ref> [[File:ID_201_Ex_Hotel_de_Inmigrantes_0786.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Hotel de Inmigrantes|Immigrants' Hotel]], constructed in 1906, received and assisted the thousands of immigrants arriving to the city. The hotel is now a National Museum.]] Other significant European origins include [[French Argentine|French]], Portuguese, [[German Argentines|German]], [[Irish Argentine|Irish]], Norwegian, [[Polish Argentine|Polish]], Swedish, [[Greek Argentine|Greek]], [[Czechs in Argentina|Czech]], [[Albanians in South America|Albanian]], Croatian, Slovenian, Dutch, Russian, Serbian, [[English Argentines|English]], [[Scottish Argentine|Scottish]], Slovak, Hungarian and Bulgarian. In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a small wave of immigration from Romania and [[Ukrainian Argentine|Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.casahistoria.net/argentina_immigration.htm#1.%20General |title=European Emigration to Argentina |publisher=Casahistoria.net |date=17 July 2009 |access-date=9 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205194421/http://casahistoria.net/argentina_immigration.htm#1.%20General |archive-date=5 February 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> There is a minority of ''[[criollo people|criollo]]'' citizens, dating back to the Spanish colonial days. The ''Criollo'' and Spanish-Indigenous ([[mestizo]]) population in the city has increased mostly as a result of immigration from the inner northern provinces and from other countries such as neighboring Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile and [[Peru]], since the second half of the 20th century.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} The [[Jews|Jewish]] community in [[Greater Buenos Aires]] numbers around 250,000 and is the largest in the country. The city is also eighth largest in the world in terms of Jewish population.<ref name="bh.org.il">{{cite web |title=The Jewish Community of Buenos Aires |url=https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/buenos-aires |publisher=The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot |access-date=13 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613111857/https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/buenos-aires |archive-date=13 June 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Most are of Northern, Western, Central, and Eastern European [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] origin, primarily Swedish, Dutch, Polish, German, and [[Russian Jews|Russian]] Jews, with a significant [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardic]] minority, mostly made up of [[Syrian Jews]] and [[Lebanese Jews]].<ref name=vjht>{{cite web|title=The Virtual Jewish History Tour – Argentina|last=Weiner|first=Rebecca|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Argentina.html|access-date=9 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615092640/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Argentina.html|archive-date=15 June 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Important [[Lebanese Argentine|Lebanese]], [[Georgians|Georgian]], [[Syrian Argentine|Syrian]] and [[Armenian Argentine|Armenian]] communities have had a significant presence in commerce and civic life since the beginning of the 20th century. Most [[Asian Argentine|East Asian immigration]] in Buenos Aires comes from China. Chinese immigration is the fourth largest in Argentina, with the vast majority of them living in Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area.<ref name="chinaytaiwanesa">{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividad-china-taiwanesa|title=Colectividad China y Taiwanesa|language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923223252/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividad-china-taiwanesa|archive-date=23 September 2015}}</ref> In the 1980s, most of them were from [[Taiwan]], but since the 1990s the majority of Chinese immigrants come from the Mainland Chinese province of [[Fujian|Fukien]] (Fujian).<ref name="chinaytaiwanesa"/> The mainland Chinese who came from Fukien mainly installed supermarkets throughout the city and the suburbs; these supermarkets are so common that, in average, there is one every two and a half blocks and are simply referred to as ''el chino'' ("the Chinese").<ref name="chinaytaiwanesa"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://edant.clarin.com/suplementos/pymes/2006/03/06/y-01150880.htm|title=El secreto de los negocios chinos|language=es|date=6 March 2006|last=Rodiño|first=Silvia|newspaper=[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]]. [[Clarín Group]]|access-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105115134/http://edant.clarin.com/suplementos/pymes/2006/03/06/y-01150880.htm|archive-date=5 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Japanese Argentine|Japanese immigrants]] are mostly from the [[Okinawa Prefecture]]. They started the [[dry cleaning]] business in Argentina, an activity that is considered idiosyncratic to the Japanese immigrants in Buenos Aires.<ref name="japonesa">{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividades-japonesa|title=Colectividad Japonesa|language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028101616/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividades-japonesa|archive-date=28 October 2014}}</ref> [[Koreans in Argentina|Korean Immigration]] occurred after the [[division of Korea]]; they mainly settled in [[Flores, Buenos Aires|Flores]] and [[Balvanera#Origin of name and alternative names|Once]].<ref name="coreana">{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividad-coreana|title=Colectividad Coreana|language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328081019/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividad-coreana|archive-date=28 March 2015}}</ref> In the {{census-ar|2010}}, 2.1% of the population or 61,876 persons declared to be [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous]] or first-generation descendants of Indigenous people in Buenos Aires (not including the 24 adjacent [[Partidos of Buenos Aires|Partidos]] that make up [[Greater Buenos Aires]]).<ref name=pueblosoriginarios>{{cite web |url=http://estadisticas.tierradelfuego.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pueblos_originarios_Metropolitana.pdf |title=Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010: Pueblos Originarios: Región Metropolitana: Serie D N<sup>o</sup> 6 |language=es |access-date=5 December 2015 |publisher=INDEC |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208073937/http://estadisticas.tierradelfuego.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pueblos_originarios_Metropolitana.pdf |archive-date=8 December 2015 }}</ref> Amongst the 61,876 persons who are of indigenous origin, 15.9% are [[Quechua people]], 15.9% are [[Guaraní people|Guaraní]], 15.5% are [[Aymara people|Aymara]] and 11% are [[Mapuche]].<ref name=pueblosoriginarios/> Within the 24 adjacent Partidos, 186,640 persons or 1.9% of the total population declared themselves to be Indigenous.<ref name=pueblosoriginarios/> Amongst the 186,640 persons who are of indigenous origin, 21.2% are Guaraní, 19% are [[Toba people|Toba]], 11.3% are Mapuche, 10.5% are Quechua and 7.6% are [[Diaguita]].<ref name=pueblosoriginarios/> In the city, 15,764 people identified themselves as [[Afro-Argentine]] in the 2010 Census.<ref name=afrodescendiente>{{cite web|url=http://www.censo2010.indec.gob.ar/CuadrosDefinitivos/P42-P_caba.pdf|title=Cuadro P42-P. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Población afrodescendiente en viviendas particulares por sexo, según grupo de edad. Año 2010|language=es|access-date=5 December 2015|publisher=INDEC|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208102042/http://www.censo2010.indec.gob.ar/CuadrosDefinitivos/P42-P_caba.pdf|archive-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page