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The Falkland Islands dispute is one of those issues where it's genuinely unhelpful to advocates for restoring them to Argentina when it comes up in the news because the more you learn about it, coming in as a third party observer, the weaker the case is
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Hey guys, can someone educate me on why Argentinians speak Spanish?
Its definetly not down to colonialism.
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The irony is an Argentine of European settler descent telling multi-generational Falkland Islanders—whose ancestors settled previously uninhabited islands—to "go back to London" and denying them any rights or say, while Argentina's own claim rests on inherited colonial titles rather than the clear will of the people who live there.