Guam confronts 'Americanisation' - 07 Jul 07

Their protests are low-level, but the message clear. For decades, the Chamorros in Guam have been fighting for the return of their land from the United States. Tony Birtley reports.

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[CATSHITONEMM]

@TheSideShort Kid, calm down. We Chamorro's are Americans as well. It's the less than 0.1% extremist population that AlJazeera is high lighting, that's all. FYI, we lost our language since the American's took over control from the Japanese. We already lost our language so it doesn't matter if we spoke Japanese or English. No seriously.. And although we are greatful for the liberation, we don't appreciate a fellow American like yourself looking at us as non-Americans.

[RichardOhKaNoi]

@pinkislander how much i agree with you. i lived in dededo for 12 years and i love guam. if the island gained independance it would slowly start to drain all of its assets, roads would go un repaired schools would close due to no mantinance. gmh would suffer. drug usage would rise. then what would the land be good for the torurist would leave and so would the money. look at the jobs that are opening because of the militairy. if they leave so do the jobs. not just base jobs.

[mraejulian]

@Kanoki989 are YOU stupid? the military NEEDS guam because it is the most strategic location in the pacific. people from guam are americans too and have fought and died alongside people from the mainland US. japanese tourism is the main source of money coming into the economy. we dont depend SOLELY on military business. it's sickening to see all the bigotry within these comments. you people need to get informed before you go making ignorant statements like these...

[mraejulian]

@ineedsomescrilla142 the people of guam pay taxes to the US gov't too. get informed before you make your obvious racist fueled remarks.

[hop208]

@CATSHITONEMM I stumbled across this video while looking at arguments for and against Guam's statehood. Since your Chamorro, do you think Guam should be made a full fledged state like Hawaii? I mean, it already seems like the US there and the people of Guam are already American citizens. The pop. is already higher than many states were when they became states. Delaware's pop. was under 100,000 for almost 100 years after statehood. I live in Pennsylvania, just wanted to know a locals opinion.

[kingjamessolja]

@twinpeninsulas very well prepared fact supported eloquent reply you have there...surely reflects your intelligence at best

[twinpeninsulas]

@kingjamessolja dumbass

[twinpeninsulas]

al jazeera should be banned from all US trerritories

[ineedsomescrilla142]

@kingjamessolja hmmm, the u.s rapes guam? how? from what ive seen, guam rapes the us citizens and takes our taxes so that they can sleep all day and get fed by their food stamps that they spend on chips and soda

[ineedsomescrilla142]

@kingjamessolja compensation? that woman is probably on foodstamps, and welfare, with her 50 children and grandchildren. take their land? my ass i bet it wasnt even the us that took it, but gov guam that took it from them and sold to the usa.