Colonialism finds few backers today

Nobody knows why the United Kingdom's embassy to Argentina has decided to organize a short-video contest for college students from South America on Argentina's Malvinas Islands, which the UK has illegally occupied since 1833 and calls the Falkland Islands.

The participants in the contest have to make a one-minute video in English, answering the question: Why I want to visit my neighbors in the Falkland Islands? The winners will win a trip to the islands, where they will spend a week with a local family learning about the history, culture and society of the Falkland Islands, according to the embassy.

The UK can hardly be unaware of the provocative nature of the contest, as the UK embassy organized a similar competition in 2018 when the UK was struggling to get Brexit across the line, which provoked an angry response from Buenos Aires.