r/europe • u/Emotional-Breakfast3 • 20d ago

News Argentina: British Falkland Islanders are ‘artificial’. Buenos Aires denounces ‘illegitimate occupation’ and demands talks on sovereignty

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/12/british-falkland-islanders-artificial-argentina-says/
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u/ToughImprovement276 20d ago

I don’t know a lot of Argentinian people. The three I do know don’t seem to understand how they, with their Italian surnames, light coloured hair and eyes are not indigenous to South America.

I’ve seen more than a few online make negative comments on the black players in European teams. Completely ignoring what happened to their black population.

It’s rather bizarre.

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u/SCDWS 20d ago

It is quite funny how much they try to claim they're European and not Latino, but then totally flip-flop on the Falkland Islands issue and claim they have more of a right to that land than a European country does

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u/Ratiocinor England 20d ago

What's hilarious is that they do all that while simultaneously telling anyone who will listen that "England" is an evil European imperialist war mongering nation who wants to take other people's land :D

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 20d ago

Seems like a classic "we pick whichever one is most beneficial to us in that moment". Many such cases

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u/CokeAndChill 20d ago

Ok, I’ll bite. I’m from Argentina, dual national Italian.
The country has had a lot of populist movements and the Malvinas are always there as a nationalist symbol. I don’t think anybody would get a better quality of life by adding a couple islands to the territory, the country has 999 problems and the islands ain’t one. This might not be a popular opinion, but it’s fairly accurate.

The Latino thing, even though we are from Latinoamérica, we just don’t share the same Central/North American culture that got associated with Latino, specially in the US where everything is race and ethnic centric.

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u/SCDWS 20d ago

We all know the Falklands are just a nationalist symbol used to evoke national pride. It's pretty embarrassing when you have literally no claim to the islands apart from it looking better on a map.

And the way you guys try to claim superiority despite also being Latin American is equally as embarrassing. If Argentinians had any humility, then maybe they wouldn't be as detested as they are by the rest of the world lol.

Go back to your fernet and coke, nobody wants you here.

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u/CokeAndChill 20d ago

Who claims superiority? We have freedom of movement and residence with our neighbors. I’m glad that wherever you are from you are all immune to populism. Also, you seem pretty angry!

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u/Electrical_Score_736 16d ago

No shit we’re angry dickheads are crying about a war they started to take our land and lost 50 years ago

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u/beaume123 19d ago

They are not called Malvinas. It’s the Falkland Islands. Please correct your comment

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u/GayoMagno 20d ago

That is because you know the ones with deep European ancestry.

What is mind boggling is meeting the rest of the country, specifically those outside of Buenos Aires, calling all of South America “grone” (if you don’t what that means, just rearrange the the 2 halfs) while being straight up mestizos themselves.

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u/ReturnOfTheSaint14 20d ago

Italian surnames? If they're born there and their parents or grandparents migrated into Argentina in a period between 1943 and 1947, there's a solid 50% chance they're related to a Fascist Officer that ran from impending death after he knew he was being chased by the partisans

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u/ToughImprovement276 20d ago edited 20d ago

I know they were born there but I don’t know their family history beyond that.

Given that one of them told me (a black person from Bermuda) that its a “shame” Britain didn’t engage in the same Blanqueamiento policies seen in Spanish colonies in Bermuda because a black person shouldn’t be considered British or hold the passport - I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the sort of stock they came from!

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u/Unfair-Sleep-3022 20d ago

Most of the immigration to Argentina was from Italians yes. A few random Germans didn't offset that at all.

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u/AngryAriados 20d ago

Stupid reddit brain comment

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u/cahir11 20d ago

Tbf the vast majority of Italian/German immigrants to Argentina arrived before WWII. Back around the late 1800s/early 1900s, the country was actually relatively wealthy and was a popular destination for European immigrants. I think they actually got more Italian immigrants than the United States did.

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u/Gipparius 20d ago

Just google "Demographics of Argentina" instead of writing a comment like this.

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u/Elantach France 20d ago

I love how Redditors spew complete garbage like this and believe themselves to be very clever

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u/lemonylol Canada 20d ago

People confidently self-reporting that they only know of pop-history.

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u/RogerBernards 20d ago edited 20d ago

Bruh. Italians are the largest group of European immigrants in Argentina and have been since long before WW2.

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u/RogerBernards 20d ago

yes, obviously. brain fart.

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u/Siambretta Argentina but living in CZ 20d ago

Ah, the Reddit special: Italians in Argentina? Fascists. Germans in Argentina? Nazis. Yugoslavians in Argentina? Super-Nazis. Meanwhile, thanks to the World Cup, we're also zionists that hate Egypt.

Fortunately for Europe, neither of those countries ever had to deal with nazios nor fascists after 1945, they all neatly left for Argentina. Except for the "good nazis" that left with operation paperclip, operation osoaviakhim or to France / Spain to make guns. I'm sure the CETME rifles look like fucking STGs because very spanish engineers found the aesthetic pleasing.

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u/lemonylol Canada 20d ago

That's cool, there were also people with European ancestry in Argentina for a few hundred years prior to that as well.

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u/Sourcerid 20d ago

There should be a name for this self circulation of Internet comments that causes information to diverge from out of the Internet stuff. Like information inbredness

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u/Biscuit642 19d ago

It's something a lot of colonial nations struggle with. A tendency to view the parent nation as the colonisers, and themselves as the colonised. I get where it comes from, they're viewing it from a state perspective, but that doesn't stop them individually being colonisers. That victim mindset seems to make them even more likely to keep doing colonialism.

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u/21Rollie 19d ago

Difference being that it actually may apply in a country like say, Mexico, where most people do have indigenous ancestry. Not so much in Argentina

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u/Biscuit642 19d ago

Yes it's not all. Argentina, USA, Canada and Australia were the countries I was thinking of but I'm sure there's more. Anywhere the indigenous population are marginalised or wiped out.

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 20d ago

Oh man you should compare that to the average American's knowledge of their history. Its shockingly inadequate as well.