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Speaker 1 (00:07):
This is black Man Spy.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm in the old town of Nuk where the original
settlement by the missionaries, the Lutheran missionary Hans Egde, was
established in the late seventeen hundreds. But Greenland itself has
been occupied for far, far greater than that. The earliest
European settlement has been documented with Eric the Red, and
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that was in southern Greenland, after he had been banished
from Iceland, and he came to the southern part of
Greenland with a settlement group of twenty five ships. He
had done exploratory activity here before. And down where the
village of Katortuk in the south, just right across from
Nasarsauak airport, is where Eric the Red would discover an
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established a settlement down there of Scandinavian settlers. They lasted
for a very very long time until the mid fifteen hundreds,
and they died off from disease and other things. But
the ruins are down there, and the churches that they built,
the villages that they built.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Are still down in that part of Greenland.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And of course that area where he settled was green
So that whole trick of turning Iceland which was green
into Iceland and then calling Greenland, which is ice Greenland.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Was part of the marketing trick.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But when you come down to it, and this has
been the entire time that I've been here.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
The analysis is what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Why is this small town of eighteen thousand, which is
about the size of many American villages, not even towns
in the United.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
States, What is it that they want? It certainly can't
be the fishing.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It can't be the fifty seven thousand people who settle
these tiny little settlements. You know, it can't be to
COmON evangelize hence beat you to that. You know, they're
very Christian here, very Lutheran. And when you say that
it's mining and you come here for natural minerals, things
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which are important to the Elon Musk and Peter Teel
of the world.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Then you realize that it's just pure hegemony.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's just pure American greed that would want to come
here and upset this balance. These people are a millange
of Danish culture and very traditional Inuit culture. And one
thing that they don't want to lose is they don't
want to lose their health care. They don't want to
lose their schools, they don't want to lose their education
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and you cannot buy them off. And one of the
more popular symbols here is the T shirt Greenland is
not for The problem is Greenland may not be for sale,
but that doesn't mean that in the future Donald Trump,
whether sooner or later, may decide that Greenland is available
for seizure. And that's where things will get dicey. There
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are fifty seven thousand people here. The estimate is there
are thirty thousand high caliber hunting rifles which they hunt caribou, slash, reindeer,
musk ox and other animals here, and they are very proficient.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
They're also very proud.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So, as I say all the time, this is, without
a doubt, the single stupidest analysis I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I'm glad I came here. It's a beautiful country.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I've traveled all across it now except for the deepest south,
and I'm going to go there eventually. But why the
United States would want to come here and force another
culture to adopt a culture that they didn't ask for
is strictly beyond me.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And it's the question of.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Why, and that is going to have to be answered
in the future. Let's hope that it never gets answered,
Let's hope that Americans, you who are watching Black Man Spy,
that you come here.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
This is great. It's a douri'st jewel.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
In June July August, the temperatures go up into the
sixties and the seventies in the Arctic Circle and you
can still see all the icebergs you want, you can
go out to them, put your hands up on icebergs
the size of the old World Trade Center, you know,
the Empire State Building, and see a world marvel.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know. I think it's in the United Airlines.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's going to start flying here in June of twenty
twenty five direct from New York City. So for you know,
the cost of eight hundred bucks, you can come out
here to Nook and see for yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Take the ferry, go up the coast.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
See that virtually every centimeter that doesn't have an inhabited
inhabitation is uninhabitable.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And just the natural, incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Beauty that's here and the really nice people that are here.
So it just enjoy a little bit of downtown Uh
and the land that Hans Uh built along with the
Inuit people.
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