There are too many countries in this brown ass continent. The Venezuelan male population should be used for fertilizer and it's women sold as sex slaves to Colombia. Peru and Ecuador should be combined into one country called Perador because Ecuaru sounds fucking stupid. Suriname, Guyana, and that other Guyana should be cordoned off with a massive wall and used as a penal colony where criminals from all the other South American nations are sent to fight and die for peoples entertainment, Most of Bolivia should be annexed by Brazil and most of Paraguay should be conquered and put to the flame by Argentina. Uruguay can choose to be part of Brazil or be part of Argentina, as a small non country it cannot be allowed to exist independently. Chile is still Chile, I do not care what happens to the mountain Indians.

Why isn't South America as popular of a tourist destination as South East Asian countries?
Everyone I know who went to an exotic place in winter went to either to the Maldives or SEA and it makes me kind of mad.
Instead of visiting your Roman(and German) cousins in Argentina and Chile you go to those SEA monkeys.
I remember that as a kid South America was seen as kind of a second Europe and played a pretty big role in my education like surfers, astronauts, paragliding, asteroids and prison. Argentina was basically Spain 2.0 and Brazil wasn't thought to be some place filled with La Abominciones but instead a white country with some racial minorities. Only places like Bolivia and Central America had a foreign air.
What happened?