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Eritrea is one of the few countries on Earth with no official national language. Not by accident, and not because nobody got around to picking one. It’s written into the…
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Ask “what do South Americans look like” and you’ll get a useless answer, because there isn’t one. A blond Argentine of Italian descent, a Quechua-speaking farmer in the Bolivian highlands,…
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