Actually the most revealing thing about this non-scandal is that it shows that German footballers have enough knowledge of South American stereotypes to have some idea of what a 'Gaucho' is, which I suspect is highly unlikely to be true of certain other countries....
I think your average American would likely know that a gaucho is a Latin American cowboy. Highly doubtful one would know that it is strongly associated with Argentina, but they'd get the general gist.
Indeed. Every year in grade school/middle school we'd spend maybe 20 minutes reading the 8 paragraphs that made up the South American section of our Social Studies book. There would inevitably be a picture like this
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maybe 3 sentences explaining the pampas. We'd also get a paragraph dedicated to Simón Bolívar. Maybe even two, he was very popular. But like church, it ended up being the same handful of stories over and over again. Incas, check. Andes, check. Spanish, check. Simón Bolívar, check. Amazon, check. Maybe a little something about Tierra Del Fuego and that really dry desert the name of I forget right now.
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