cockbeard wrote:Which were the three territories? Just that if they're what I guess they were, then weren't some of them pretty much uninhabitated prior to settlement. Yes the populations were put there by the colonial power, but it's not really comparable to India or Hong Kong. I mean Argentina isn't governed by Mayans or the Olmecs, and who's to say that it's really the Spanish that would have a greater claim to Gibraltar than say Algeria given how much of southern Spain was settled by Moors
Kow wrote:I'm not sure a vote is always valid, really. Gibraltar always votes to stay part of the UK but then the population was planted there by the UK so they'd hardly vote any other way.
Kow wrote:If you've ever been to Gibraltar then you'd see that saying Spain has no claim on it is ridiculous. I'm not saying the people there have no say, just that it's definitely not the only say.
Diluted Dante wrote:Lets vote on it.
davyK wrote:There are folk in those territories who likely consider themselves not of their bordered nation, at least culturally.
Blue Swirl wrote:Though, not to stoke the flames of a fire I just tried to put out, but as with everything, hypocrisy abounds. There are Spanish exclaves in Morocco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta Borders are oddly interesting. Though I do wish humanity as a whole would stop being quite so serious about them. I don't give a shit where the lines are drawn, just make sure the people within those lines are well treated.
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