PennyRoyal comments on After beating England, Argentine football players waved a banner which said: "The Malvinas Islands (Falkland) belong to Argentina"

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 65 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The descendants of the only people to live on the islands since pre-history. Literally the only people whose opinions count, including the uk population and government. It doesn’t matter what the Argentinians or the British think really, same as Greenland - the people who live there want to be a part of the uk

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

The modern population of the island are the natives, kinda like how Icelands population is completely native to the island. Not to say people didn't fuck around on the island occasionally but there's basically no evidence of prehistoric settlement of the Falklands.

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[–] axx@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Sure, I entirely agree on principle. But that's my question, who are these people? According to Wikipedia, there are no such people:

Although Fuegians from Patagonia may have visited the Falkland Islands in prehistoric times, the islands were uninhabited when Europeans first explored them.

So I suppose I have my answer overall. The people living there are broadly the descendents of the French, Spanich and English who settled there in the late 18th century. The French ceded the settlement to Spain a year after they started, so even just scratching the surface of the situation it looks like it's been a mess for 250 years.

But in any case, the people living there, now, clearly want to remain a UK territory.

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

The French and Spanish occupants had long abandoned the islands before the English arrived.

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