The Falklands War

[Thadius]

Just watching that thing with Carol Thatcher on Channel 4, didnt realise that the Argies were still bickering and saying the islands are thier.

And the woman giving her a bollocking because her son died in a war I felt was just wrong. Argentina invaded British Land and her son died because of it. Yet when those that died from the British side are regarded as heros.

Funny old world

 

[Azurus]

Just watching that thing with Carol Thatcher on Channel 4, didnt realise that the Argies were still bickering and saying the islands are thier.

And the woman giving her a bollocking because her son died in a war I felt was just wrong. Argentina invaded British Land and her son died because of it. Yet when those that died from the British side are regarded as heros.

Funny old world

Well it's certainly more their island than ours.

 

[Case]

Well it's certainly more their island than ours.

Not really:

The population is 2,967 (July 2003 estimate), the majority of which are of British descent (approximately 70%). The native-born inhabitants call themselves "Islanders". Outsiders often call Islanders "Kelpers", from the kelp which grows profusely around the islands, but the name is no longer used in the Islands. Those people from the United Kingdom who have obtained Falkland Island status, became what are known locally as 'belongers', or to mean the islands belonged to Great Britain. The great majority of islanders are of Scottish and Ulster Scots descent[citation needed]. However, a few Islanders are of French, Portuguese and Scandinavian descent. Some are the descendants of whalers who reached the Islands during the last two centuries. Furthermore there is a small minority of South American, mainly Chilean origin, and in more recent times many people from Saint Helena have also come to work in the Islands. The Falkland Islands have been a centre of English language learning for South Americans.

The main religion is Christianity. The main denominations are Church of England, Roman Catholic, United Free Church, and Lutheran based denominations. Other smaller numbers of Christian churches are active, including, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist and Greek Orthodox; with the latter being due to Greek fishermen passing through.