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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Go read Debt of Honor, good old Jack puts it in a simple to understand way.
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Still the xyz-foreign-community of 3000 people in let'S say Berlin do claim national sovereignity there, but understand that they are in Germany, not let'S say Uganda.
If it were like you say, then it would be making much more sense if people that wish to be British, would not try to live by that practially in
South America, but in - guess what? In Britain.
The German state is in Germany, the Argeninian state is in Argentina, but the Brish Island are in the Southern arctic?! They could at least have choosen for the closer polar region, the Northern Arctic!
Also, by your logic it seems amazing that India and Austrralia are no longer British colonies. Brits with Briotish passports were living there, and do so until today, or not? And more than just 3000.
I assume for traditionalists it also is a sentimental thing, glory of the good ol' empire and how-sweet-to-die-for-the-Vaterland and all that stuff. Well, I use to talk of cultiural heritage and identity, and lack of that in the EU, myself quite often, don'T I. But just patriotism or even nationalism over a handful of dirt and rock far, far away from one's homeland is not what I am about.
I vaguely remember that some weeks ago there was a report about the first Brit living on the Falklands chosing for Argentinian nationality. But I did not read the essay, just caught the headline.