Falkland Islanders
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| Falkland Islanders |
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| Total population |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Falkland Islands
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| Language(s) |
| English (see Falkland Islands English), |
| Religion(s) |
| Christianity, Protestant (mainly Anglicanism and Presbyterianism), Roman Catholicism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran, Seventh-Day Adventist; Bahá'í minority |
Falkland Islanders (also called Kelpers[1], Falklanders; Spanish: Malvinenses, Malvineros/as) is the people of the British overseas territoriy of Falkland Islands.
Population: 3,105 (July 2007 est.)[2]
Population growth rate: 2.44% (2007 est.)[2]
Nationality: noun: Falkland Islander(s) adjective: Falkland Island
Ethnic groups: British
Religions: primarily Anglican, Roman Catholic, United Free Church, Evangelist Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran, Seventh-Day Adventist[2]
Languages: English
[edit] Origins
The Falkland Islanders derive from the numerically small but internationally diverse early 19th century inhabitants of the Falkland Islands comprising and descending in part from settlers brought by Luis Vernet, and English and American sealers; South American gauchos who settled in the 1840s and 1850s, and since the late 1830s and early 1840s onwards settlers from Britain and other countries including various European nations, most recently with especially significant contributions from St. Helena and Chile.[3][4]
[edit] Identity
- See also: Briton
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, Speaker of the Falklands Legislative Council)[5] | ” |
They also see themselves as no different than 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 or African descent. (Councillor Mike Summers)[6] | ” |
[edit] References
- ^ Chater, Tony. The Falklands. St. Albans: The Penna Press, 1996. p. 137. ISBN 0-9504113-1-0
- ^ a b c CIA World Factbook (2007)
- ^ FitzRoy, Robert. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Chapter XII, p. 267.
- ^ Seventeenth periodic reports of States parties due in 2002: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. UN Document CERD/C/430/Add.3, 13/03/2003.
- ^ Clifton, Lewis. The Falkland Islands: Self-government with an emerging national identity? News and Journal 2004, The 21st Century Trust. London, 1999. pp. 16-19.
- ^ Summers, Mike. Self-determination in the Falkland Islands. In: The Future of the Falkland Islands and Its People. L. Ivanov et al. Sofia: Double T Publishers, 2003. pp. 68-74. ISBN 954-91503-1-3
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