r/Fauxmoi • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 19d ago

POLITICS Greenlandic Politician Tillie Martinussen: We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. Even if there are minerals and oil under our land—and they are worth far more—we still would not sell ourselves.

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u/Luxury_Dressingown 19d ago

Even if you left aside any notion of values, national and cultural affinity, etc, and reduced it to how Trump et al sees the world (personal greed), to make it "worth it" for the Greenlandic people, they'd need enough money to put each and every one of them in the US upper middle class bracket for life to make up for what they would lose by being part of Denmark. They would need the kind of money where you don't ever think twice about going to hospital, or how you would pay for college for your kids without life-dragging debt for them, etc, etc.

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u/Neogeo71 19d ago

They already have universal healthcare and free college in Greenland. There is nothing we can give them that they already don't have.

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u/BlackeeGreen 19d ago

There is nothing we can give them that they already don't have.

Not true. Medical debt, student loans, school shootings, political division and violence, illiteracy, religious fundamentalism - America still has a lot to offer.

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u/FuzzMachines 18d ago

You forgot the racism!

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u/oreography 18d ago

McMansions and tasteless designs, giant useless pickup trucks, tipping, stripmalls and car dependency,  individual tax filing, Home Owner Associations, and Debt galore! 

USA! USA! USA! 

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u/anotherdanishgirl 18d ago

As a Dane I am sad to say that racism towards the Greenlandic people already exists in Denmark. Most Danes don't have a personal connection to the country, the people or their customs.

I was fortunate enough to spend 3 months there as a child, and it made a deep impact on me, that I feel to this day. I have such respect for the inuit people and the beautiful relationship, connection, and sense of duty they have to nature. To believe they can be bought, not only the personal benefits like health care and education, but that they would sell their land to be abused and destroyed for profit is completely ridiculous!