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You got 5 stars from me and I would have given you 10 if I could. Your Spanish is awesome. Really Levi. I remember when you were just beginning with your classes and look at you now! I'm really impressed. Besides, it's also amazing how good
you got to know our country and our culture. I bet you know more about certain themes than many Argentine students. I don't care if you got some help from Wikipedia, it's just great that you had the will to learn and that you seem to understand us almost as if you were Argentine yourself. Have a nice flight back home! ;)

Very informative post...I also witnessed the marches on La Dia de la Memoria in Buenos Aires and just recently went to the ESMA museum. Next week I am planning planning on going to Corodba and will definitely try to check this out. Being fr
om the U.S. I have a hard time wrapping my head around Argentine politics and history as well (and also knowing that my government may have assisted in the torture...*shudder*) but I think it's vital to learn about while in Argentina just as much as dancing the tango is, like you said.

I'm so happy you had such a great time in C?rdoba! :) I've been there many times and, all over, I agree with you on your 10 things to visit. However, I do love Villa General Belgrano... maybe that's because I went to a German school and the
refore I got to meet many people from that city during my school days.Anyways... you have to visit Alta Gracia sometime in the future! When I think back of C?rdoba and the many holidays I spent there with my family, Alta Gracia is the place that comes to my mind. I think you would enjoy it.

I agree with almost everything you have said here and I am a woman living in Buenos Aires. It kills me that open sexism is completely allowed here. While I have always believed women to be equal, I never considered myself a feminist, but be
ing here has certainly gotten me fired up. Men treat women as second class and are simply not taken as seriously here. I was also shocked to find out how much info is fair game in a job interview. Apparently, a man's wife can be called in to be talked to if he is up for a job! That is ludicrous. I feel like there is a lot of pressure to be in a relationship of some kind here. I am a single girl who pays for her own apartment. Most girls my age live with their parents or with a man. I find that when I tell people I am single they look at me like a wounded animal. "but why?! you are so pretty!". It rarely occurs to anyone that I might choose to remain single or perhaps not just take what I can get. Great article, very well put!