There’s an old joke in Argentina: Argentines are Italians who speak Spanish, think they’re British, and live in Paris. Sixty-two percent of Argentines have some Italian ancestry. Argentina’s 1853 constitution was influenced by Anglophiles who used British self-government as a model and encouraged British immigration, which later brought soccer. Buenos Aires is nicknamed “the Paris of the Southern Hemisphere,” since many buildings there were designed by French and Belgian architects in the