Introduction to Argentina Author:Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Forward by the author: "A strong motive animates me in offering to the public this friendly guide to Argentina: it is the conclusion, formed after a residence of over five years in the country, that although Americans who visit Argentina, and Argentines who visit the United States, return to their respective countries with something approaching ... more »a liking for the other, they begin their visits with a profound ignorance of what is before them. To many Americans Argentina calls up no vision beyond tangos, revolutions, and gauchos; while in a kind of retaliation, there are many Argentines who think of us only as vulgar materialists, builders of fantastic skyscrapers, and as a people who nourish, in our social fabric, the ganster and the kidnaper. This mutual ignorance, this reciprocal misconception, I would in some degree remove, in so far as it exists among my own contrymen, and point out some of the outstanding characteristics and beauties of this "good neighbor" land, and of its friendly and courteous inhabitants, in order that they may seek to know it in increasing measure, and come to love it and its people as I do. To some friendly Argentine I leave the corresponding task of collaborating with me in my further endeavors, as my courntry's representative here, to enlighten his countrymen about the United States."« less