Falkland Islanders - Identity

Identity

See also: Origins of Falkland Islanders, British people, and Gaucho

The Islanders are British, albeit with a distinct identity of their own:

“ British cultural, economic, social, political and educational values create a unique British-like, Falkland Islands. Yet Islanders feel distinctly different from their fellow citizens who reside in the United Kingdom. This might have something to do with geographical isolation or with living on a smaller island – perhaps akin to those British people not feeling European. (Lewis Clifton OBE, Speaker of the Falklands Legislative Council) ”

They also see themselves as no different from other immigrant nations including those of neighbouring South America:

“ We are as much a people as those in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile and many other South American countries whose inhabitants are of principally European, Indigenous or African descent. (Councillor Mike Summers OBE) ”

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