alt Hacker News> want to annex a European territory
Greenland is not in europe. It may be a danish colony but that doesn't make it "european territory" any more than french guiana is. EU territory? Sure. But europe is a penninsula on the western flank of eurasia.
Edit: huh I had no idea how complicated the classification of eu territories is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_territories_of_members...
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victorbjorklund • yesterday at 7:12 PM
Does that mean Hawaii isn’t part of US because it’s far away from mainland?
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tokai • yesterday at 5:54 PM
Its not a colony. Stop diminishing the agency of Greenlanders.
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ulfw • yesterday at 1:22 PM
And Hawaii is not in America. Certainly neither is Guam etc.
What kind of argument are you even trying to make?
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> Greenland is not in europe. It may be a danish colony but that doesn't make it "european territory" any more than french guiana is. EU territory? Sure. But europe is a penninsula on the western flank of eurasia.
You are right that Greenland is not in Europe (it sits on the Nort American tectonic plate).
It is also not an EU territory, however, it is linked to Europea through Denmark. European influence exists through governance, education, and trade.
Most Greenlanders identify primarily as Kalaallit (Inuit) and Greenlandic, not European.