Pachter commentary on Japanese Games

[palou]

Ka-pi96 said:

palou said:

Money, also a lot of more recent immigration, with stronger cultural ties to the continent.

The continent? Which continent? Europe? How are countries like Brazil with their strong ties to Portugal not considered western then? Or Uruguay who are wealther than some of the other countries on that list and also have strong cultural ties with Europe?

But yeah, like VGP said "western" is pretty arbitrary. It's not the only term that sounds geographic in nature, but doesn't properly correspond to a specific geographic region.

"The continent" is (or rather, was) the usual way that colonists spoke of Europe.

 

Regarding the rest,

 

"Between 1857 and 1950, 6,611,000 European immigrants arrived in Argentina, making it the country with the second biggest immigration wave in the world"

 

The government at the time made some very significant efforts to dissociate itself from the rest of South America, and attach itself to Europe. The majority of the Argentinians are descendants of these more recent immigrants (who were incentivised to import their culture and keep ties, not adopt the local culture.) Brazil, on the other hand, has most of its population stemming from older immigration (both european and african slaves) as well as aboriginals.