Italy and Spain provide Argentina's DNA base, but an Argentine born today is just as likely to have smatterings of Jewish, French, Turkish, Polish, English, Russian and Lebanese blood as well. Immigrants poured in at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th from all over Europe and parts of the Middle East. Buenos Aires is the New York of the south. 'The mix of nationalities in this country blended together wonderfully when it came to defining the female form.' There has to be something in this. Ask anyone in Buenos Aires why this should be the case and you will always receive the same self-satisfied answer. And a third axiom was that Argentine women were the best-looking on the planet. Another was that Argentina had the best beef in the world.

One was that an Argentine was not only capable of solving any problem, but of doing so 'with great ingenuity'. La Nacion, the country's most venerable newspaper, published a few years back a list of truths held to be self-evident by the majority of Argentines. The Argentines themselves, notorious in the rest of Latin America for their haughty presumption, are the first to agree. They are the most beautiful women in the world and I cannot wait to come back to Argentina.' And what did our Robbie say? He said, and I quote verbatim, 'I've got to say this, and this is not a lie: Argentinian girls are amazing. When I was back there myself recently I happened to watch an interview that Diego Maradona, football star turned TVshow host, did with Robbie Williams. Maybe it's been no more than 30 such conversations but every single time the talk has turned - immediately - to women and to the view each man has held, unfailingly, that nowhere have they come across better-looking specimens of femininity. Since then I have had a number of conversations in various parts of the world with men of various nationalities who have spent time in Argentina. I lived in Buenos Aires in the early Eighties. But there has to be something approaching scientific rigour on conclusions based on more than 20 years of study. And, sure, such judgments are bound to be subjective beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That is the core reason why every man I know who has been to Buenos Aires rhapsodises on the charms of the female natives. There is more to it, but that is the driving force. Argentine women are the most beautiful because they are obsessed with their looks. The English are the most drunken because they are obsessed with booze. The Americans are the richest people in the world because they are obsessed with money. The French eat better than anybody else because they are obsessed with food. To be the best at something you have to be obsessed.

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