The Italian diaspora = Majority somewhere

Petete123123

Dan1988 said:
So, mix Venetian and Piedmontese together and have them influence completely the local variety of Spanish (which was already quite different from the rest of Latin American Spanish). The result could sound like (and be perceived by non-Argentines/non-Uruguayans) a "Portuñol", but would still be recognizably Spanish.
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Actually during the early XXth Century, many intellectuals in Argentina wanted to make the Argentinean variety of Spanish a language on its own. The problem was that written language was the same as in Spain.

I think that if Brazil didn't promote immigration, most of those Italians are likely to go to Argentina. That would like double the amount of Italians our country received, accomplish the OP and have some nice butterflies.
 

Admiral Brown

Excellent points, Petete123123. there's no much to add.

Just something about this:

Petete123123 said:
Argentina it can be. But we established a law in the early XX Century, the Residence Law, which allowed the government to expell any immigrant who caused trouble. And as many Italians who came from Northern Italy were Anarchists or Socialists, this reduced their Immigration. Southern Italian immigrantion continued anyway and even increased, as it was more an economical issue.
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I din't think the law had much to do in discouraging northern Italian immigrants. It was seldom used, and most Northern Italians weren't anarchist (although most anarchists were Northern Italians)
 

Skokie

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The Italians migrated too late in history. Either have them move to the New World sooner or maybe have them go east, where it was typical for the various ethnic colonies to maintain their languages, religion and laws.
 
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