Comments by "Tinerfeña" (@Islas_Canarias) on "African migrants storm border into Spain's Melilla" video.

  1. I'm from the Canary Islands, a group of seven small islands off the north west coast of the Sahara Desert and belonging to Spain, unfortunately. We were fully colonised by 1495 after almost 100 years of invasion by Castillian Spanish, Portuguese and Genoan Italian conquistadors. The last Guanche Aboriginal King (Mencey) was finally killed, "Mencey Bencomo" on Tenerife, and the islands were totally captured and colonised from then on. We were the official practice run for the next Spanish invasion, which was the Americas. Our islands served as the last port of call on leaving Europe, before sailing on the long voyage to the Americas. Both the Spanish and English used us in their travels. We were a major port of call and have played a huge part in colonisation in history. We exported our accent (which is different to Iberian mainland Spanish) to the Carribean. The Cuban, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rican accents all come from the Canarian accent. It was Canarian sailors who gave the Caribbean their accent. Today, descendants of the Canaries can be found in Louisiana, The Caribbean, Venezuela and Uruguay. There is a region in Uruguay where a large number of Canarians settled. Their accent is fully Canarian and the locals are known as "Canarians". Canarians consider our Latin counterparts as "primo hermanos". We don't listen to Spanish flamenco but to salsa. We don't pronounce the "z" or "c" letters with the Iberian "seseo". We pronounce them as a letter "s". We "aspirate" the ending of words ending in the letter "s", totally opposite to say, Mexican Spanish, which does pronounce the "s" quite strongly and distinctly. We exported bananas, rum and tobacco to Cuba, and today these are definably Cuban exports. I've had my DNA tested. I am (1) 25% GUANCHE Aboriginal.......... (AFRICAN => [a] 22% North African "Berber".....think Touareg or Bedoine peoples + (b] 3% Sub-Saharan African), (2) plus 25% equally Castillian SPANISH, Genoan ITALIAN and PORTUGUESE. I can tell, by my two surnames, which parental line gave me which heritage. My father is the Italian line and my mother the Spanish/Portuguese line. I no longer live on the islands. My parents migrated to Australia. I decided, after returning many times to holiday, finish my high school education and work for a few years, that there was no future living there, for several reasons. One important reason was how close we were to Africa that we were getting high numbers of illegal immigrants constantly landing on our shores. The balance had started to turn. Today, we have the same problem asMainland Spain does. We are over run by illegal immigrants and the government is doing everything in its power to increase it and protect the illegals who arrive. Here in Australia, we are very strict with our illegal immigrants. We send them offshore to Nairu Island and process them there. We deport more than we allow in. Word has spread go the people running the scheme that Australia is a no go place and too strict so don't even bother trying. Que dios nos bendiga de esta pesadilla y desastre política.
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