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Colectivo

User:Zzzzzzus and other editors worked a lot around this article. We believe is colorful, original and will provide a window into a different culture that many never know existed. It is also a part of Argentine folk and one us "porteños" are very proud of. We'd be delighted to hear constructive criticism, especially since none of the contributors has English as our native tongue.

--Sebastian Kessel ^Talk 17:32, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

To start with, there are colectivos all around Argentina, not just in BA. Ejrrjs | What? 20:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

True, although they don't share the same folk characteristics. Feel free to edit to accomodate this statements. --Sebastian Kessel ^Talk 21:00, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thats not true. El Colectivo is just like the futbol (or almost everything in Argentina), something Metropolitano, unitarist. To think in other way is erroneous (and ridiculous). The real federalism of Argentina (a coincidence) started with Menem in 1990 (when the blurring of the colectivo tradition). Again the example of La Fiesta De Todos, Argentina played in Rosario, but all the histories are in the buildings of Buenos Aires... not "all around". That populism of the Proceso dictated this time that Argentina is: Buenos Aires, Futbol, Malvinas, Peron, etc... Yo can go to discuss that to Videla and the Military Forces of those years... But its not recommendable.--Zzzzzzus 15:21, 4 October 2005 (UTC)zzzzzzus[reply]

I have a hard time believing that "futbol" is "unitarist"... You keep on citing a single movie but you forget that almost every Argentine city has colectivos and soccer teams.

To prove my point, I invite you to look at the stats in the Argentina national football team. How many players were born in Buenos Aires? You'll see that only a small percentage...

--Sebastian Kessel ^Talk 15:52, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Santiago regresa al paradero, el colectivo que toma es un Chevrolet y tiene la radio encendida, in Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversación en La Catedral (1969), ISBN 8420484164

This is Lima circa 1955. Further descriptions indicate that it is the same kind of public transportation than the original colectivo porteño. Perhaps some Peruvian wikipedian could help on this one. Ejrrjs | What? 21:14, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Chevrolet its only one kind of van-buses, before the arrival of Mercedes Benz. --Zzzzzzus 13:39, 4 October 2005 (UTC)zzzzzzus[reply]