[Tango-L] Fwd: Tango is Argentine

[bettina maria fahlbusch]

 So maybe, rather than
call it Argentine it is in reality "colonized people's music and
dance" ? - finally, many of the lyrics are about those missed Loved
one's at home . . . " Who could sing that? An aching Italian having
left his family at home being shipped off to the end of the world and
have no money to come back home? What about acknowledging that Italian
in those lyrics . . . ?

in the conversation about identity and roots, isn't that still fueled
by the desire to still find identity - so, where is it? -  isn't it a
rather human question of many people's being spread all over the globe
and separated - like as the Tango in Finland gives expression to that
? So the definition of "Argentinean by origin", mainly today, is
really a mix of "colonized people" that got "imported" based on the
idea - of the class in charge - to define the future of Argentina by
European standards, rather than their own Indian heritage, while the
true inhabitants of Argentina, just like in America, got killed off by
those perpetrators. So the question of "true identity" in Argentina is
a real question, especially in the younger generation.  On the other
hand, what may be "truly" Argentinean today, maybe simply the very
fact of its very mix of many cultures into one melting pot.