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Unlike the people in other areas of Hispanic America, Argentines are mostly of European origin.

Between the 1850s and 1940, more than 3.5 million immigrants arrived in Argentina, about 45 percent of them from Italy and 32 percent from Spain. Prior to the 1960s, substantial numbers also came from Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Poland, Russia, Wales, the middle East, and Japan. Spanish is the official language and is spoken universally, but a number of Argentines also speak English, Italian, German, French, or Native American languages (Guarani, Quechua, Mapuche, etc.). Despite the mix of ancestries and languages, Argentines are fiercely nationalistic.

Approximately 90 percent of the population is nominally Roman Catholic.

Argentine sport Although Pato is Argentina’s national sport, played by gauchos on the XIX century, soccer is the most captivating sport for the people of the country.