Full of mestizo? No. That’s probably less than 10%. Majority of Argentines can name where their great-grandparents came from. My great-grandparents came from Germany(mother’s side) and my great-grand parents on my fathers side from Northern Italy.
***Sorry, you said the countryside just saw it. In the North, perhaps a lot more than you would see but that has to do with the borders.
As for Diego. There have been rumors for a while that Maradona’s family on his father side was Paraguayan, hell, from my understanding the surname Maradona is a made up one. Maradona’s mother had some Croatian ancestry.
As for those mestizo looking Argentines, as I said earlier, they likely came from Bolivian or Paraguayan ancestry, maybe a couple generations ago, if that. More and more undocumented immigrants from those countries are flooding the country. The same issue, with the Us and as the case with US many Argentines blame the Paraguayan who come over the border illegally also bring their drugs and violences and create shanty towns. The US and Argentina have similar parallels.
Not many will leave the country, and you won’t find huge Argentine communities overseas as you would do with other Latin American countries. Our population rate is steadily going up. For all the shit our economy as gone through, very few will want to leave.
I’ve grown up in the States most of my life, even though I was born out there, but I’d still be seen as a yanqui for having lived in the US for most of my life.