Are the Falkland Islands British or Argentinian? — Transcript

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1. 0:00The Falkland Islands, is it British or
2. 0:02is it Argentinian? We're on the
3. 0:03outskirts of the city of Stanley to
4. 0:05speak to locals to find out exactly what
5. 0:07they think.
6. 0:08>> We want to be Falkland Islanders and
7. 0:10we're not held here as hostages and and
8. 0:13don't want to be kind of Argentinian.
9. 0:14What worries me is one day it'll seem
10. 0:17good idea for us to be like um
11. 0:22shared sovereignty or something. It's
12. 0:24just a non-starter. Leaked documents
13. 0:26from the Pentagon have suggested the US
14. 0:28is seeking to review Britain's claim of
15. 0:30sovereignty over the islands. Now that's
16. 0:32boosted Argentinian's [music] claim for
17. 0:34it and that's emboldened politicians
18. 0:36there to suggest the English should
19. 0:38leave the island of the Falklands.
20. 0:45It's trying to separate sometimes what
21. 0:47is rhetoric from what might be what
22. 0:49might be a threat. We're the ones that
23. 0:51live here and um and cherish these
24. 0:53places as our island. To be honest, it
25. 0:56just breaks my heart. They never give
26. 0:58up. And I can never see a time when they
27. 1:02do give up. It would be nice if we
28. 1:04didn't have to to listen to all of this.
29. 1:06It would be nice if [music]
30. 1:07people just respected our own choice of
31. 1:09self-determination.