[BRIEF NOTE] A Paraguayan Irony

[rfmcdonald]

The idea that Paraguay is--or given mortality trends in the 80+ cohort, was--a haven for Nazis is common knowledge (1, 2, 3), even seeping into popular culture. How ironic is it, then, that the population of Paraguay is largely mestizo, product of one of the most thorough intermixings of indigenous and immigrant populations in the whole of the Western Hemisphere, and united in the use of the Guaraní language as the national language? Compare, if you would, the despair of Bormann in São Paulo when he realized that he lived in a global metropolis where "race mixing" was ubiquitous?