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WTF? The Falklands has nothing to do with anything.
by justincormack 14y ago
WTF? The Falklands has nothing to do with anything.
- kragen 14y agoHere in Argentina, Falklands/Malvinas are the first thing people associate with Britain. A British friend of mine was trying to persuade her (Argentine) landlord to fix the roof in her apartment, and he started yelling at her about the Malvinas. The dominant stereotype of Englishpeople is not that they have terrible food or that they drink a lot of tea but that they are pirates who want to steal offshore oil that legitimately belongs to Argentina and who keep invading Argentina over and over. There is actually a suburb of Buenos Aires whose actual name is "Malvinas Argentinas". If you're talking about public perception in England, I'm sure you're right. But the case was here in Argentina.