Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Senior Theses and Projects Student Scholarship Spring 2014 ¿Qué sos vos? Cuestiones del papel de la transculturación y el crecimiento de identidades y culturas híbridas entre la comunidad china en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Osaremi S. Parham Trinity College,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses Part of the Chinese Studies Commons, Latin American Literature Commons, and the Spanish Linguistics Commons Recommended Citation Parham, Osaremi S., "¿Qué sos vos? Cuestiones del papel de la transculturación y el crecimiento de identidades y culturas híbridas entre la comunidad china en la ciudad de Buenos Aires.". Senior Theses, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2014. Trinity College Digital Repository, https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/381 ¿Qué sos vos? Cuestiones del papel de la transculturación y el crecimiento de identidades y culturas híbridas entre la comunidad china en la ciudad de Buenos Aires Osaremi Sade Parham Submitted to the International Studies Program, Trinity College Supervised by Anne Lambright ©April 30,2014 Abstract Chinese immigration to Argentina is the fourth largest in the nation, after Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru, yet the Chinese are the largest group of non-Spanish speaking immigrants in the country. In my thesis I explore the significance of such high rates of Chinese immigration to Argentina to further understand concepts of transculturation. I want to know why these immigrants came to Argentina, how they created enclaves, and how they interact and contribute to Argentine society. With China’s recent economic influence in Argentina, there is also a growing interest among Argentines to learn Mandarin and Chinese culture for business practices, so I will also briefly explain this new relationship.