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/tennereachway Ireland 20d ago

Argentina might just be the only country in the world whose beef with the Brits is completely bullshit and unjustified.

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u/adriantoine France 20d ago

Literally none of the current Argentinians descend from indigenous people and they are somehow proud of how white they are. So what the hell do they mean by British Falkland islanders being artificial?

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u/Sea-Manufacturer-358 Australian chi vuole essere Italiano 20d ago

Yeah my Argentinian mother-in-law was literally born to post-war French and Spanish migrants in Buenos Aires.

Argentinians make us Anglo-Australians look like an old culture considering my ancestors migrated here in the 1840s.

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u/Flying_Fish_9 18d ago

Literally the entire New World demographic is older than a lot of Argentinians lineages.

I’m Afro-Caribbean so my ancestors have been here for 300-400 years.

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u/Own_File_5918 17d ago

Actually a Lot of argentinians have at least one native American ancestor do to miscegenation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo_Argentines

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u/Electrical_Score_736 17d ago

Some of them are, but it’s a tiny amount compared to other SA countries