President Donald Trump’s persistent talk of taking over Greenland, known to its inhabitants as Kalaallit Nunaat, has caused significant concern both there and in Denmark. When Trump spoke of buying Greenland during his first presidential term, Danes and Greenlanders, the Kalaallit Inuit, took it as a joke. Trading in countries and peoples was something that was done back in colonial times, as when Denmark sold the Danish West Indies (now the US Virgin Islands) to the United States in 1917. After the end of World War II and the formation of the United Nations, that practice was supposed to be a thing of the past.
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