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What Do Greenlanders Think Of Trump's Interest In Buying Greenland?
The majority are Inuit. They laugh about his interest but also take it seriously. One says such talk is "extremely imperialistic and should not be something that we hear world leaders say in 2019."
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Corrected August 22, 2019 at 9:00 PM PDT
A previous version of this story misspelled Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's first name as Meete. Clarification: The story previously implied that Denmark classified Greenlandic children as "legally fatherless" if they were born outside marriage until 2014. Although the law was changed in 2014, Denmark stopped the practice decades earlier.
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