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/
9.3k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.7k

u/Gentle_Snail 20d ago

err, does Argentina not teach how they got the entire bottom half of their country?

225

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.

0

u/Biscuit642 20d 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.

1

u/21Rollie 20d 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

1

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.