Every time I posted a comic that had Greenland in it, quite a few people asked me, ”What about the Faroes?”
Sometimes I would think, “You live in Canada! How the hell would you know about the Faroes?!”
Well, here he is. Denmark’s other “colony”.
The thing about the Faroes is that Danes usually forget all about them because they’re small and they don’t hate us quite as much as Greenland. In fact, they even voted yes to staying part of Denmark, and it quite upsets them that Denmark doesn’t pay them enough attention.
When Danes do remember there’s a place called the Faroes, we usually remember them for spending our money and then complaining about us when we ask them to pay it back.
Its taught in the faroese school system that a long time ago, before iceland became independent, that the king of denmark claimed that the faroese people loved being part of Denmark and was so confident that he help a vote where the majority wanted to be independent. The king said the was a miscount in the vote and discarded any that voted to leave. Later when the second vote was held, a large portion of the population basically said "we don't have a military and don't have the funds to support one similar to modern militaries" and thats a large part of why they voted to stay.
Fun fact! The majority actually voted against staying part of Denmark but the ministry swayed the vote, (im not 100% sure what happened but im from the faroes) and we stayed apart of them anyway :/ and then another vote was held, and barely anyone voted so it looked like the majority said they wanted to stay. Just good ol' biased ministry stuff
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