Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men "frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them."
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If one day the UK ever grant them independece they will 100% be forced to join Argentina, no one in the Global South cares about them and most countries in Latin America have organized a boycott of doing business with the islands. It's going to be just like the Panama Canal, with the Zonians returning to the US and the Panama goverment replacing the empty colony with locals.
I would say this is somewhat similar to the Guayana Essequibo Conflict, but Venezuela actually granted citizenship to everyone that lives in the Essequibo region (probably because unlike the Falklands, 100k people live there and have nowhere to go).