

Aside from the indigenous population, nearly all Argentines or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Argentina. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Argentine.Īrgentina is a multiethnic and multilingual society, home to people of various ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural.

( Rioplatense dialect, Cordobés dialect, Cuyo dialect)Īrgentines (also known as Argentinians or Argentineans in Spanish argentinos ( masculine) or argentinas ( feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina.
