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From: jens@moscom.UUCP (Jens Fiederer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: More double standards
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Date: Sat, 28-Dec-85 19:08:54 EST
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Regarding Guam and the Virgin Islands:  I lived in the former for 2 years, and
the latter for 6 years.  In the VI, there is a weak separatist movement, mocked
by at least 95% of the people I met.  Because the indigenous population of the
Virgin Islands was exterminated in the times of the Spaniards, there is no
real nationalist feeling.

Guam, with which I am less familiar, (I was 10-12 years old at the time of my
residence), does have an extant (though well mixed) indigenous population of
Chamorros.  There is some nationalist feeling (the Chamorro's language is
still remembered, and even used for the welcome slogan "Hafa Adai!".  I did not
detect much separatist feeling, but I may have been insensitive.

Azhrarn