Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men “frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them.”
Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men “frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them.”
Yes all 20 of the falklanders voted to stay, including the 15 Brits
I bet the soldiers at Diego Garcia would vote to stay too
The Falklanders of Argentine descent also voted to stay British. You can condemn them morally for desiring to be British, but the people of the Falklands are not occupied, and attacking it was not a liberation struggle. Argentinas only claim to the territory is that it’s next to theirs, which it really isn’t and you wouldn’t accept in any other situation anyway. You can argue that as Brits they don’t have human rights and should abandon the island to leave it to the penguins, but that still wouldn’t make the area Argentinian.
Oh no that’s my take too. If you make a positive choice to be a brit, especially of a colonial outpost, you need to go back to britain.
According to even the UN the Falklands are a colony, so even the mild libs agree with my position. Besides kicking out the natives and filling regions with settlers and then proclaiming that the locals want to keep being a colony is peak colonizer behaviour. France does as well in Kanaky and Mayotte.
There is no “native” population besides the penguins. They didnt kick out Argentinians or indigenous people to make room for Brits. You’re just wrong
No. That’s not what that means. It’s a list of dependent territories that do not have an internal government. Not a list of territories that should be made independent or handed over to other countries.
Damn I wonder why the Special Committee on Decolonization is in charge of maintaining that list.
Man I wonder why the list of dependent territories without internal governments would be maintained by the organization for listing dependent territories. That sure means that the official approved lib position was that Alaska should be handed back to Russia until 1959 or something. The average lib was cool enough to say that the US should hand over territory to the USSR. That’s how this works, right? The page SAYS WHAT ITS A LIST OF.
They get removed if they have an internal government no matter how colonised they are. Or are we going to pretend Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Greenland aren’t colonised?
Was part of the list. And is going to be added back in very likely.
And secondly I literally stated that the even the LIB version of a colonial definition agreed with me that the falklands are a colony. You are moving the goalpost, take a breath and self crit why you are so invested in british colonialism and chauvinism.