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> For that hour, the little Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific are the only British territory in the Sun. > The Pitcairn Islands have a population of a few
by trustno2 2y ago
> For that hour, the little Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific are the only British territory in the Sun.
> The Pitcairn Islands have a population of a few dozen people, the descendants of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty.
Ah that seems so beautiful...
> The islands became notorious in 2004 when a third of the adult male population, including the mayor, were convicted of child sexual abuse
Oh
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/pitcairn200801 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/pitcairn200801
>The criminal charges stemmed from a longtime island practice of “breaking in” girls as young as 10.
> Colleen McCullough, the Australian author of The Thorn Birds and wife of a well-known Pitcairn descendant, harshly criticized the British for prosecuting what even the Foreign Office grudgingly conceded was a “cultural trait.” She said, “It’s Polynesian to break your girls in at 12.”
....oh.
Well. OK. That was NOT in Moana.
- defrost 2y agoColleen McCullough is less an expert on Polynesian culture and more an enabler of a randy British mutineer fork Although archaeologists believe that Polynesians were living on Pitcairn as late as the 15th century, the islands were uninhabited when they were re-discovered by Europeans. In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the British merchant ship HMS Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, 11 women, and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands All in all it was a bit of a Ripping Yarns style Boy's Own Adventure with indentured sex workers.
- wongarsu 2y agoTahiti is in French Polynesia. According to your quote 18/27 = 66% of the original settlers are Polynesian. It'd be very strange if they had a completely European culture.
- defrost 2y agoI'm well aware of where Tahiti is, thanks. Do you think the Tahitians were free and equal settlers, or yet more Pacific Islanders blackbirded by the British? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding
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- syene 2y agoIf they only have dozens of people after centuries of non-Western culture, that to me sounds like tradition hasn’t been going well for them anyway /s
- gray_-_wolf 2y agoThe island is tiny. According to the article, when population roused to about 200, it led to famine. The local food supply just cannot support large population.
- pjc50 2y agoI'm sorry, is this homophobia supposed to be a defence of child abuse?
- DarkmSparks 2y agowhat exactly is homophobic or defending child abuse about finding women who identify as men repulsive? Both are equally broken mental health issues.
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