Hemispheric snark

Stephen K Amos a black British comedian has alleged on a TV show that aired Tuesday Feb, 10, 2009, that Prince Harry made racist comments last year. The 24-year-old prince apologized last month for using a derogatory term to describe a fellow soldier of Pakistani origin. He also apologized in 2005 for wearing a swastika armband to a party.

(Huffington Post)

Continued British occupation of the Malvinas depends largely on maintaining good will with the Argentines (and their neighbors who only reluctantly tolerate the “Falklands” Island Dependency as a useless appendage of a former Imperial interloper).   The announcement that Prince William will be serving in the Falklands has not gone over well. “This circumstance only serves to once again highlight Britain’s ongoing military presence in land and sea areas that are part of the Argentine Republic’s national territories,” an aide to Foreign Minister Jorge Taina said.

In the Americas, inbreeding is usually found in geographically isolated locations, like Appalachia before the mid 20th century,and today, in the Malvina/Falklands.

In Europe, there are cultural factors that also lead to inbreeding, but often with the same unfortunate results.  While the isolated  Islas Malvinas off the coast of Argentina are a prime candidate for geographically-induced inbreeding, the European country which has been occupying the islands COULD resolve its own vexing problem with inbreeding very simply.

Send them Harry, and don’t take him back.

The tragedy of inbreeding: L, Appalachia, early 20th C; R, Great Britain, early 21st C