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Fears about the loss of national identity and the idea that Argentines formed a distinctive ethnocultural group that was threatened by foreign influences were constant and pervasive themes of the cultural debates of the Argentine Centennial period. As Carlos Altamirano maintains, a moral crisis emerged at the time of the Centenario, which revolved around three principal themes: the racial constitution of the nation, the critique of materialism, and the level of participation in the political process.1
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Bletz, M.E. (2010). Negotiating New Identities. In: Immigration and Acculturation in Brazil and Argentina 1890–1929. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113510_4
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