Modern technology would allow a perfect replica to be computer printed - so as we nicked it, let's give it back
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In fact, there is a perfect replica of it in Belgium's Musée de l'Homme.
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The British Museum used to be a safe guard for protecting great world art. Too bad they weren't in possession of more artifacts from Iraq and Iran before they were destroyed.
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And Syria.
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Give back the Benin kingdom artefacts such as the ancestral head of an oba which was stolen and still is at the Bristol museum.
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The British Museum is great, but it is basically just a shrine to theft and grave robbing.
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The statue would've been sold to a private collector by Chile's corrupt regimes years ago had they been in possession of it. The British Museum refutes the theft accuation with a statement on its website, much more eloquently than your post. Nice virtue-signalling though.
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So, theft by the Chilean government? Nice being dumb because you didn’t get enough air while being born, though
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Not even close to my point. Chile, until its recent transition to a half-decent state, was a corrupt entity where everything of value was up for sale by its dictators. The British Museum preserves artifacts like these for the international public to appreciate them for free.
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Recent transition? Pinochet dictatorship ended about 40 years ago, but now we have a corrupt businesman as a president.
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40 years? Pinochet was commander-in-chief of the army in 1998 when he was then made ‘senator for life.’ Only 20 years ago. Recent.
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Pinochet's bloody dictatorship ended in 1990, after the referendum. So, 1990 until 2018... do the math yourself. We're talking about dictatorship length...
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No, I was talking about the length of time the country has been free from the corrupt influence of Pinochet’s political clique. Before 1998?
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English thievery until this day?!
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Oh dear - German & US....do you really open that can of worms on thi subject. Glass houses & all that....
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Yes lets do lol.
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"Astrid Allard & Ines Oukkate, both 20 and visiting from France, were taking a photo of the statue with their fingers posed in such a way that it looked like they were picking its nose. “it’s been here for a very long time.” Ms. Allard said. “I think more people see it here.”"
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How can you argue against a tradition like that?
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The British museum charges for each exhibition. They stole art from the world and charges anyone who wants to see it.
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They don’t charge shit
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