Why does France still have a South American Territory? - History of French Guiana
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- Why does France still have a South American Territory? - History of French Guiana
French Guiana is a little piece of France that's located in South America. It's officially known as an overseas department and region of France, which means it's basically just like any other region of France, just on a different continent. Plus, it's got an interesting history with France, so it just makes sense for it to still be considered a part of the country.
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Arrives, destroys your outpost, leaves, refuses to elaborate further - Portuguese Gigachads.
Actually, I believe it was the Portuguese Terachads.
@@christiancolossus5165 The Portugachads
@@Otochiro1 lol....That's their brothers.
Very interesting place..." How tasteful was my little Frenchman"
" Papillon"
Greetings from French Guiana ! 🇬🇫 🇫🇷
God, the tone used in this video makes it sound like hell over here...when it's really not.
Yes, we have our share of struggles. But to be fair, we boast both the highest GDP per capita in South America and the lowest crime rate in the region.
And very few people are actually in favor of independance although we are seeking more autonomy from the mainland. Cheers !
I work in a wholesale shoe company near Paris and we have some great clients from French Guiana. I hope you keep doing well!
So are you french or french guyanian
@@Potato0770 Both. That would like asking if I'm American or Texan...
@@thibault973 i mean they have the france nationality
France passport and other stuff
Bonjour bro
Oddly enough - France's longest border with any country is in fact there - in Guyana, with Brazil
Also the place of Europe’s largest national park
@@Patoecapoeira The biggest national park of an EU member state, not really Europe's though, the same way Hawaii isnt North America's most isolated island chain.
@@Patoecapoeira thats no Europe.
But South america
France needs to build a Maginot-type defensive barrier there in case Brazil gets aggressive again.
I heard that they are building a bridge between Brazil and "France". Can you imagine?
Despite the big territory (if compared to metropolitan France) French Guyana has only about 300 000 people. That's less than most of the other overseas departments of France like Réunion, Guadeloupe or Martinique
Because it’s rainforest.
Hard to live there. Too much humidity
Legend says the portuguese are still attacking french guyana
@@sugeknightiswatchingyou not the Portuguese, but the Brazilians had a short war with France because of French Guyana - and this was in modern times.
But that grow that will 1 million on 2060, and almost half will diseapear in Martinique and Guadeloupe
France has territory in North America too. Saint-Pierre and Miqueleon near Newfoundland.
We could argue that countries like France with French Guyana or Reunion, the UK with Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, Portugal with Madeira and Azores, Netherlands with Curaçau and Aruba, Denmark with Greenland and the Faroe Islands and Spain with Ceuta and Canary Islands are still practicing colonialism
@@sugeknightiswatchingyou many of the current overseas territories have had independence referendums, and the people either dont want independence, or are too small to be able to function as an independent nation
@@sugeknightiswatchingyou Well as far as the UK is concerned, you are completely wrong. Neither Bermuda or the Cayman Islands had (or ever has found to have had) any indigenous populations, ever... so they are not 'colonies' but British 'settlements'. That's why they are British Overseas Territories, and not Commonwealth countries.
@@omegawonton8749
Pretty much.
@@sugeknightiswatchingyou When were the Americas decolonized ? Still quite a lot of Whites there if i am not mistaken...
As far as I know, people of French Guiana have full French citizenship, they vote in French elections, so it's not a real colony today. They even use the Euro as currency.
They also have elected representatives in the Senate and the National Assembly in Paris.
The people in Guiana voted to remain a part of France just like Alaska voted to be part of the US.
@@ploska1855 There were people in Alaska and they weren't asked about this.
Do not go to independence because a lot of corrupt and greedy people making your country worst it is very good to tie as a french national ...dont be like us in Phillipines were so many greed and corrupt people who pursue independence in U.S.A. now we are bullying by the Chinese if the independence didnt pursue we are U.S.A Nationals with U.S.A dollar as currency and one of the richest economy in Asia because the U.S.A will gave us a fund for Economy and Military....shit that greedy patriot on commonwealth era they think they are intelligent but they are not futurist.
@Ploska and Crimea was gifted to Ukraine doesn't mean they. Have any claim to it anymore
French Guiana person here 🇬🇫
973 RPZ
mais du coup, ça se passe comment là-bas. Content ou pas? je ne sais pas et il y a pas trop de vidéo a ce sujet donc autant demander au 1er intéressé
Let's be clear about French Guiana. This is the place which had a savage penal colony on an island off its coast called Devil's Island. The penal colony was depicted in a film called 'Papillion' based on the experiences of a convict called Henri Charriere and shows the harsh penalty of guillotine. French Guiana is also the home of the European Space Agency, a rather more positive site.
Yes, we all know already.
Actually, I think that the penal colony, and in particular Devil's Island, is the ONLY thing most people know about French Guiana.
@@ChrisJones-ij3xp I'm sure it is now on the tourist map though I was thinking of Guyana next door as a South American country before choosing to go to Bolivia instead.
@@henryfitch8710 That is the former British colony.
@@ChrisJones-ij3xp It was was where Alfred Dreyfus was unfairly incarcerated.
Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing job
Nice video! I always wondered about this country. Thanks!
Because 70% of locals voted against more autonomy let alone independence in 2010?
What are your sources? I don't think such a referendum happened.
@@ambergris5705 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_French_Guianan_status_referendum
@@ambergris5705 Do they not have google or online newspaper in your country?
Oh yes, that's right! Well it seems that it was such a big deal that I completely forgot about it 😂 thanks for reminding this stupid commenter
@@ambergris5705 well it certainly SEEMS like its important enough for you to ask for the sources because you doubt something happened, honestly you are the fool in treating someone of "stupid" when he is litteraly just telling you to move your fat fingers off youtube and make a google search like a normal person.
Dont take the internet for granted
Edit:welp irrelevant misunderstanding then, me dum dum
Gotta love it. Not even 1h out and the first predictable comments arrive. No,French guyana is not a colony, its a full part of France. Inhabitants there hold the same rights and duties as any normal citizen and enjoy the same (waning)privileges. get that "waah yurup bad" shit out.
it is still a colonial holding, but it is propper part of France too
Honestly, they're better off being part of France than of Latin American society and politics. I'm sure most people in Latin America would love to have a foot in France as well.
@@stalwartarjuna "most people"? Lol bet you don't know many latin americans
lol of course is it a colony. How French, a European nation appears in South America? Was any other culture living there before, or they did like the dutch and took the land out from the sea? You can call it overseas territory or the most fancy name you want: it is what it is. A different topic is that the mix of French and autoctonous population decided to stay in France
@@maximipe No conozco a nadie que no prefiera irse a vivir a Francia, o cualquier país de Europa, en vez de quedarse en este manicomio con forma de continente. Ni a los políticos les gusta vivir aquí, por eso tienen casas y a sus familias en el extranjero como un _porsiacaso._
France actually shares the longest land border with BRAZIL
That is actually wrong, in spite of being over repeated.
France’s longest land border is with (drumrolls):
Australia.
Yup.
Check Adelie land, the French Antarctic territory: wedged in the middle of the Aussie one.
Agreed: there’s a treaty that froze (pun intended) all territorial claims over there but:
- this treaty is in its final years;
-Both Oz and France recognize each other’s territories.
That’s a good 6500km of land border for you, maybe actually the longest land border in the world, is it spans both East and West of Adelie land, as compared to other Antarctic territories who usually have not one but two neighbors.
@@jetaddicted No
@@tiagobaptista3082 Care to expand on that? I guess not.
@@jojolafrite90 What you want to know? Like, Antarctica doesn't belong to any country, so it doesn't make sense to take a territory that doesn't actually exist and use it as a border.
I'd love to see a video about St Helena. The British Island where Napoleon was exiled and died. Most of my family is from there, its a beautiful island 🏝
Napoleon thought it was a shithole unfit for a European
Nicely informative video
Great video!
The cultural diversity (natives people, descendants of african slaves, hmong from Laos, European expats, Brazilians immigrants and so on) of this "small" département is incredible. It's like if America, Europe, Africa and Asia were condensed in the amazonian jungle.
And as Brazil, French Guiana is extremly racist and segregated. But the difference between those countries is that French Guiana have never had it's independence. Nevertheless, brazilians have always thought as a nation and that's why it is an independent country. But guyanese... it's so complicated (it's a mess!).
Why they accept their situation? They have money but they're also very poor (no industries, no urban planning, almost zero agriculture, just a few local jobs, very few social housings, zero development...).They don't think as a nation. If you say someone who comes from a brazilian family is guyanese they'll say this person isn't really guyanese. If he or she represents a three generation Hmong family they'll say the same. It's the same about black-browns or white people born there. They even ignore amerindians as guyanese citzens. Almost every situation is like this: segregation. It's a shame. There are some guyanese who says it is a creole land and that's an insult to every people that have been there for ages. How can they say it's a creole land if amerindians have always been there? Why do they do that?
Racism? Historical and cultural colonisation? Yeap, but not just that. Who has some privileges in their society? How local elite is formed?
It's like when a land lord gives some power to a bounty hunter who ignores he's also an oppressed person. By the way, who has voted no to French Guiana independence?
@@fsdeslandes Brazil is "extremely racist" and segregated? Lol! Don't talk shit, you're probably a racial activist, and looking at your profile I see that you might be Brazilian. There is racism in Brazil, obviously, as well as anywhere in the world. But it's not intense or at the level of racial segregation as it happened in the USA. Well, I mentioned this because I'm Brazilian, but I don't know how it is in French Guiana. Please don't spread misinformation on social media about your own country in order to satisfy your ideological bubble, because that's a shame!
Europeans immigrants*
@@maiskk6326 Agreed, this has always weirded me out, everyone else is immigrants, however when it is about Europeans or Americans they are called "Expats" and not "immigrants".
Suriname is more diverse
I love the video by talking about the history of French Guiana! Im glad that u kinda mentioned the Hmong refugees, who came from Laos, to escape from the Lao communist forces and to find refuge in French Guiana. Keep up the great work on making these videos 💯
Good job on this one.
The video doesn't sufficiently explain what an "overseas department of France" is. It's a part of France just like any other region of European ("Metropolitan") France except that it's in South America. It's not officially a territory, a colony, or a possession but according to the law of France, is as much a part of the country as Paris.
It's like the mainland
I'd really love to visit French Guiana sometime. I used to boast as an EU citizen I could probably live there no hassle. Then Brexit happened and my dreams of ease were crushed.
I thought brexit was all about the UK.
@@inspectorvoid He is from the UK if I understood well
France also has 2 territories near Newfoundland, Canada: St. Pierre and Miquelon
@@prabjotgill7291 it still has a fair amount of pacific islands too
VISA shouldn't be a big deal as a UK citizen I think
Please do some more series. Like the one on the ottoman empire!!!!!!
Brilliant. I spend a lot of time in Brazil and did not know this.
Nice video
To train the Foreign Legion in jungle warfare .
To be fair to the people of French Guiana, if the autonomy on the independence of the Philippines were voted on today, the Filipinos would opt to stay with Spain. I'm pretty sure you can say the same for many former colonies.
Hell, The Netherlands tried to get rid of their former colonies in the Caribbean but they were persistence and in the end an international court(if i'm not mistaken) technically forced the dutch to remain there
To Miguel Galang: A referendum on becoming an autonomous overseas territory was held in French Guiana on 10 January 2010. The proposal was rejected by 70% of voters who prefer full integration in the French central state. The turnout was 48%.
I don't think so Spain isn't doing well with its self now
@@krips22 tbf theres a point where most french people dont give a sh** about voting for their president now less than half even care, if only 48% of the locals came to vote, thats prolly just because they saw both solution as equally terrible or smt
@@the3zoooz1 My father is a Spaniard. My mother is Filipino. While I agree that Spain is in a mess right now, I would rather have Spain's government and quality of life than that of the Philippines any day.
Great to see this video was made. I didn't even know as a person who is interested very much in geography that france shares a long border with Brazil until recently.
Didn't know that, thanks
If they can not sustain themselves what's the benefitt in breaking away from France
First you are right, secondly the video isn't greatly done and is poor in information, at last autonomy isn't even desired there. Everyone is just fed up with what's happening with the government, and some think loke the corsican or basque, that changing for an indépendant rule will magicaly make the corruption go away when local mafias are thr biggest supporter for independance.
@@Fourbix In other words, typical South American politics...
@@stalwartarjuna not only South American..they are doing that elsewhere ...Big players have their pullens and politicians are never the true represents of the people ..Corruption is everywhere ..What the world needs is benevolent leaders and not the pollies faulees...pollies of career ..people without one day of the working life are running entire countries...
They cannot sustain themselves maybe because of france colonizing them for hundreds of years ?
@@tnk.2033 I am not so sure about that Bible,brandy and gunpowder story...What was on the sustainable menue in the venue before the " wretched white men" entered the " paradise"😃👍
Maybe do some videos on small islands nations, there many with rich cultural history and colonialism. Micronesia, Tuvalu, Mauritius, Pitcairn ECT. (Suriname, Bhutan not small islands however)
Pitcairn Islands not a country
@@crazyh It's a sovereign nation.
Very interesting.
I am loving the hammet sounds
Anglophone world seems fully interested in dismantling France. What can't you understand by referendum voted by people ?
I once ordered a set of beetle specimens from Entimo-source in French Guiana of the worlds largest type,
Titanus giganteus 15-16 centimeters. Thank you for those, I donated to a museum collection.
Very interesting. 🤔
What do you use to create your maps?
The power of friendship
Deez nuts
France has in fact territories in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica ! The only territory where it has no foothold remaining is Asia.
_"The only territory where it has no foothold remaining is Asia"_
Even though, stricto sensu, France possesses several tiny bits of territory in Jerusalem (domaine national français en Terre sainte) which in Asia.
But I guess that's a bit far-fetched :)
@@krips22 the only British territory in Asia is their military bases on Cyprus et c'est pour ça qu'ils ont une présence sur un continent de plus que les français
@@unbonfrancophone1539 Mesquin et honteux comme raisonnement.
@@francoislechanceux5818 pardon ?
@@unbonfrancophone1539 Tu es fier que nous ayons encore en 2023 des territoires voire des colonies volés ou prisent par la violence brute à d'autres peuples il y a des siecles justement quand ils ne pouvaient se defendre?
You have an interesting voice...do you mind if I ask what country you are from?
Thank you.
Once whole South America and even the whole continent was to be named Brasilia. Just a german cartographer made the mistake to name Vespucci as the one who discovered the New World so overriding this nice name 😁
We live in France and for years have used the Royal British Legion to import our poppies for the November end of WW1 commemoration event. Last year however their internet site refused to list France as a country I could get a delivery made to. On querying this I was told that since Brexit no deliveries would be made to the EU. Funny how it was still possible for me to export poppies to French Guiana which is still part of the EU.
french guiana actually isn't a part of the eu anymore, when brexit occured they joined in and decided to establish with the UK something they call "the british european union"
@@firecreeper2249 Please state your source. According to the European Commission it is a French territory and part of the EU.
@@romeobravo2023 I was just joking, I find the idea of french guiana joining brexit (something that is supposed to be uniquely british) to be highly humorous, adding to that the idea that britain would try to recreate another union, and the idea of it including "european" in its name as a way of copying the eu's name despite this new hypothetical union definitely not being centered around europe and definitely not making any economical or even political sense, and the idea of french guiana starting an absurdly complexe administrative scenario by staying as a part of france yet leaving its eu to join its rival one, I think this all add to the absurdity of the scenario.
I personnally find great enjoyment in the idea of creating elaborate absurd improbable scenarios, I don't know how common this sense of humour is though, so I appologise if I sent you down a flood of confusion.
anyways, long story short there isn't a crazy person that think french guiana secretely left the eu or anything, I just found your story to be amusing and wanted to use it as a prompt for my personal enjoyment while sharing it in case anyone might find humour in it too.
Do you have a video of Argentina ?
The map of the French empire in North America is to small, the territory was bigger.
Correct... it was about a 1/3 of the present USA.
Not really. It could have been shown a little bit bigger but the territory was such loosly controled that it's hard to define its limits. Was the Labrador peninsula in modern Canada fully French or not? It's hard to say but mostly not since the colony was almost empty with less than 100.000 inhabitants, living on the coast (Lousiana, Acadia) or in Quebec with a few French garrisons here and there in between (around 0,01 inhabitant/km² which is around 100x less than the Sahara desert today). What I mean is that the map is deceiving since New France = a few dots here and there rather than a contiguous territory.
That being said, correct me if I'm wrong, but you may be also confusing New France (16th-18th centuries) with French Louisiana (1800-1803)... which was way smaller (1/3 of New France as a contiguous territory)
But it was woefully underpopulated
I love France
Can you maybe do a video about why Britain still owns Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Saint Helena, the British Virgin Islands and Bermuda? (I forgot the names of the other territories)
anguilla would be fun
"you're independant now" "no"
Very very cool videos bud perfect for a dummy like me !!!!!
@8:07 why is there a Laos Flag?
Hey I'd love to see a complete romanian history or at least some history of Romania since im a romanian and I did not saw any videos with Romanian history
more videos on romania would be a good thing for the entire world
France could make French Guyana the next Miami / Dubai in South America so much potential.
And ruin the forest? Eh... let's think about it first.😅
@@Briselance Why not? The french deforestation in the Amazon is actually the largest among the countries in the region...
@@braziliantsar Bolsonarist propaganda. Deforestation comes from illegal gold harvestors who come from Brazil. Yes there is a huge infrastructure project that would be bad for the forest but I don't think it has been approved.
@Brazilian Tsar LMFAOO saying this being brazilian is bold af?? brazil easily is the most polluting and deforesting nation of south america 💀💀💀
Nice.
Please make a vidio about stefan the great and ottomans polish war. Where stefan fought against the Poland with ottoman empire. Love France very much.
Who the hell in French Guiana would want to be autonomous or independent? They’d have to be insane to wish that. Better to remain a part of France and enjoy the benefits. The alternative is to become even more of a backwater. It’s the same reason why Puerto Ricans refuse to become independent.
The Puerto Ricans love all that tourist money, they'd most certainly loose if the became independent.
@@schalitz1 They wouldn't lose tourism if it was independent, it would most likely increase
@@schalitz1 OOOH NOO I AM AN INDONESIAN, I DO RATHER BEING DUTCH DICK SUCKER, LET THEM SUBJECTED MY WHOLE PEOPLES,VIEW US AS SLAVES, ALONG WITH THEIR BENEFITS MONEY, UWU UWU😂🤢🤮
@@Lando-kx6so literally how?
@@Lando-kx6so hm no, we would lose to many advantages that being a French and EU citizens gives, add that the protection it give us
Vive la France 💙🇨🇵🥳 !!!
Frog Eater🤮
Interesting
Gold.
The ESA needs a good place near the Equator to start rockets from.
It wasn't for the ESA France built it way before
Moro em Macapá - Amapá - Brasil 🇧🇷, perto da Guiana Francesa ,incrível o vídeo.
French Guiana have full French citizenship, they vote in French elections, so it's not a real colony today. They even use the Euro as currency.
7:44 Laos... ok... wait, what?
I think the story was that laos was allied with france against viet congs??? and then when they became independant france helped the pro-french from laos to escape and they chose guiana cuz the climates were similar and french guiana was(and still is) underpopulated and underdeveloped
It is not a territory. It is part of Metropolitan France.
Why when talking about French Revolution and stuff in 1790s that that the map in North America hasn't changed why is Britain still controlling the 13 colonies???
because making good maps is hard when you don't care
@@firecreeper2249 He must do it on a purpose, maybe in alternative timeline
No, USA
George Washington just became regular citizen, no modern 🇺🇸
Videos ideas - central America History, the history of the Americas before the colonizers, Africa history,dutch history, the history of Slavery , The History of Gunpowder and Firearms, the history of Germany . The history of country formations in America ( I would like to know why isn't Canada and the USA one country? And why the Hispanic countries in south America isn't one too?)
no clue if the channel is actually asking for suggestion or if you're just pestering them for no reason, but I too, would very much like a video on central america
This is nit pick but at 3:55 in 1763 it was Great Britain not United Kingdom
United Kingdom wasn't formed until 1801
7:32 you misspelled french guiana you instead called it "french guinea"
I hate howc people sometimes decide to write essais about french guyana and then it turns out that they can't even spell french guinea right because they couldn't even bother to learn how it is spelled
The portuguese would never dare to hurt the french! We are a peaceful country, we were just trying to make them avoid bad agricultural lands, that’s it :)
_"The portuguese would never dare to hurt the french! We are a peaceful country"_
Aaww! That's so nice! Is it because the first Portuguese king was half French? (Afonso I 's father was a French nobleman born in Dijon, grandson of the Duke of Burgundy, that had been made Count of Portugal for his participation the Reconquista).
@@krips22 Not just the father of D. Afonso Henriques. During the Reconquista, several nobles came from what is now France, Belgium and ended up receiving lands and titles. But not only nobles immigrated, the second king D. Sancho I is called "O Povoador" (The Populator) since he created cities in the interior of Portugal with immigrants from Burgundy and Flanders.
"Villegagnon" ^^
Do part 7 and the rest of the roman empire!! its awesome!!
Wasn’t Louisiana sold by Napoleon to Jefferson in the early 1800s? This piece says it was given up in the Treaty of Paris in 1763?
the seven years war ended with a lot of territorial change within the americas, one these change was louisiana becoming a spanish colony.
Later during the napoleonic wars, france signed a treaty with spain that would,among other things, give her sovereignty over naple(which was under french occupation) in exchange for spain handing louisiana back to france.
Napoleon wanted to start another colonial empire in the americas, but his plan was stopped when the haitian revolution removed his only foothold in the region (besides hispaniola, france's possession in NA only consisted of small islands britain could easily invade, and louisiana which was pretty much just the city of new orleans but with an overly optimistic claim), so napoleon had to give up that idea and instead made use of the territory selling it to the US
France actually still has alot of their former colonies. They are secretly huge
You don’t realize the extent of it. First look at how Haiti, was obligated to buy its independence. Every year, it gave the French massive amounts.
Then how France kept a grip on most of its African colonies, far after independence!
@@michaelreid8857 exactly. Some one who knows lmoa
@@michaelreid8857 France was not the only colonial power that did that, you can argue Russia still does that to Belarus for example
@@michaelreid8857 Exacly correct. Italy's Giorgio Meloni absolutely slammed France for such, and it was glorious.
czcams.com/video/q-C8ogD6E8c/video.html
@@sugeknightiswatchingyou and USA with Hawaï or GB with falklands islands
Well. It’ll be interesting to see if it becomes more of a state OR a territory. Something more in line with Puerto Rico, in how its still part of the United States of America, but also an independent country of sorts. Thus, I see something in those lines for French Guinea & such…
french guiana is already as integrated as it can be, if france had states then guiana would be one
Well, aside from terminology differences, @@firecreeper2249, it has more to do with representation & the amount of support it gives & receives to & from its federal government…
@@nickvinsable3798 France is not a federal state so that concept doesn't make sense here. French Guiana has representation in the legislature and can vote in all the french elections.
@@nickvinsable3798 I don't think france is going to get any more federal than it already is, or at least not in the near future, with've been making baby steps towards decentralisation and we might just loose all that with a few bad presidents. I'm not really an expert when it comes to administrative stuff but I think new caledonia, the most autonomous part of france, has less autonomy than a regular US state, and on top of that this year they're going to vote on a new status that will, afaik, make them less autonomous
I honestly believe we have a misunderstanding, @@mtk77621. First of all, I compared French Guinea with Puerto Rico. Otherwise, I don’t know nor understand the specifics; yeah, my French is terrible. But when it comes to being a Problem Solver, a Politician (only a freakin’ idiot won’t get this one), I’m definitely better than the currently elected clowns in monkey suits, here in the United States of America…
8:11 isn't that the flag of lao?
it is
Why does the pronunciation of French Guiana (Guyana) keep changing throughout the video?
Spain in America : public opinion 😡
Other European countries having territories in America: public opinion 😄
Really? I've been on these channels for a long time and the only one opposed to spanish rule in america seems to be the spanish former colonies.
@@Fourbix we weren't colonies.
@@zamirroa Vice royalti, just different ways to say in past your ancestor becaming European Colonialist personal subject
@@afdalridwan3813 No, we weren't colonies like English and other powers like france had.
They probably looked at Haiti and said no thanks!
The African descendants who make up 66% of French Guiana's population?
France, as a county, has a lot of sovereign states, and it also has dominated some countries before.
I forget the exact detail, but counting various states and territories, maritime boundaries, etc france controls the most time zones and geography in the world.
Hmm, that's not insidious at all.
A better question: why didn't they take Brazil? Had the opportunities...
They could barely keep small colonies in South America, imagine taking the whole country of Brazil.
In fact, they lost all but one colony (French Guyana) which they almost lost it as well.
It's more like Brazil had a better chance... If only Portugal had negotiated better at Vienna, maybe, we would be a country "from the Maroni to the Chui"
Spain was the dominant power back then and really you couldn't mess with Portugal without Spain consenting.
@@unsrescyldas9745 Portugal was the dominant sea power back then, that only happened during the iberian union which was when Portugal lost the majority of its colonies
There is one thing about French Guiana I don't think to be proud of: their economy is basically the Ireland-style economy, which mean ridiculously high GDP, but low standard of living. Being from Ireland myself, I have witnessed exodus of many Irish away from my country despite the fact Ireland is very prosperous. One reason is, despite Ireland has one of the best GDP/per capita and is home to many multinational companies, it fails to generate improvement of living standard because everything is skyrocketed and the government has been unable to address these matters.
French Guiana, despite boasting the highest GDP/per capita in South America, has one of the worst living standard in the Americas, rivalling only Bolivia, Paraguay and maybe some Central American states despite superior GDP. Hell why so many former French colonies hate France and, given France's failure to improve French Guiana, you should expect France's fragility in the future. Corsica, for example, had recently witnessed a rebellion over accusation that France exploited the territory. Who knows?
Mayotte is even worse
The portugese be like: “if the English doesn’t like you, neither should we 🤷♂️”
when you see the countries around them the worst thing they could do is become independnt they dont want to end up like their neibors
UK also have a colony in south America : Malvina Islands or Falklands in Argentina coast.
And it was occupied by Argentina in 1982 but they failed against the British in spite that they had a historical claim over that island.
A couple of strange references to "French Guinea" toward the end of the video?!?
the thumbnail litterally contains a typo, don't expect too much from that guy
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France needs to invest more in the region or change the law to a more free-market one because there is high unemployment in this region
Former british guyana is the poorest country of south america
Former dutch guyana is the 2nd poorest country
Former spanish guyana is now part of Venezuela,the 3rd poorest country
Former portuguese guyana is now the poorest state of Brazil
French guyana is the richest (highest GDP per capita) part of south america
A wild Portuguese appears
Brazil:come to Brazil please
South Americans:no
Brazil:come to Brazil plz?
South Americans:No
Brazil:Come to BrazIL PLZZZ
South Americans:n0
Brazil... (Angry noises)-
Europeans:yes
Brazil:YOUR GOING TO BRAZI!!!-
Mbappe: In South America football is not advanced as in Europe.
Also France:
france rolled a six and got all of SA's football point, sorry!
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Why does France still have St. Pierre and Miquelon?
Why not?
Why not?
In St. Pierre and Miquelon the inhabitants come from mainland France, and it's the same in St. Barthelemy (west indies)...
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When Brazil occuped French Guyana, her was named Guyana Cayena
Better amazement
France should give me personal owner ship of French Guiana
Nice name
Seems to be that the french colonies have the worst track record for success/prosperity, after independence, when compared to the english or Spanish speaking countries. To be clear i don't think this is cultural. Just a much smaller network to be able to draw on, due to far less speakers. The only positive story i can think of, is cote d'lvoire, or possibly algeria, if they avoid dictatorship. Vietnam doesn't speak french, so it doesn't count.
Well Tunisia and Morroco arent doing too terribly, Algeria neither.
Ironically its former North American colonies arent doing too terribly either Quebec is easily one of the richest parts of Canada and while Louisiana can barely be considered french speaking anymore and is one of the worst states of the USA to be in due to New Orleans, its still relatively decent.
The biggest problem comes with Sub-Saharian Africa (partly due to France itself, and i do mean PARTLY since France doesnt exactly decides for countries to have a military coup for example its influence on Africa is already to far in decline, and the Franks in itself isnt that bad of an idea when facing the risk of BS inflation like in a certain old Portuguese colony, only sucks that France controlls the money without using it) and Asia.
The french are just weird really, they make stuff work, and they make stuff not work, either way its french
To Haebris: _"the french colonies have the worst track record for success/prosperity, after independence,when compared to the english or Spanish speaking countries"_
Which former Spanish or British colony are doing great in Africa? (Yes, let's compare what is comparable; besides, South Africa is a very different case, for obvious reasons)
_"Vietnam doesn't speak french, so it doesn't count"_
What a weird statement... the level of success of a country post-colonization is linked to the fact if they speak French or not? Was it a French colony or not?!
Also, French is still spoken.
This must be the worst "French suck, Anglo-saxons rulez" comment I've seen in at least 2 months (and god knows we see a lot of this kind of jingoistic antifrench comments)
Because you can consider a colony successful? No colony was either a good idea nor a success for the local population.
Yet what about Quebec? What about Acadia? What about Louisiana? What about Indochina (it's not because a former colony doesn't speak the langague that it was less of a colony)? What about cities in India? What about Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria, Morroco, Tunisia? What about Mauritius, Seychelles?
And it's funny to compare Spanish colonies with French ones since I assume you are talking about South American former colonies like Argentina, Chili etc. Well French Guiana is the wealthiest region of the entire sub-contient (higher nominal GDP per capita than Uruguay, which has the 2nd highest).
@@paarmenion3635 french guiana is a part of modern france. I just mean french speaking, ex colonies of france seem to have the worst track record since independence. When compared to their english and spanish speaking counterparts.
@@Hession0Drasha i mean at least its not Palestine and Israel
Or Yemen and its civil war
Or Soudan with Egypt and South soudan
Or Nigeria with its civil war
Or South Africa with its sorta civil conflict
Or India and Pakistan with their endless wars
Or...
Yea the english colonies are doing decently well, but there has been a sh** ton of lasting conflict
You called it guinea several times at the end of the video… just a heads up. It’s Guiane! Pronounced like guyana without the a at the end
even the freaking thumbnail spell it as "FRENCH GUYANA" despite thumbnails being easily editable, I miss when channels _cared_ about sharing proper knowledge instead of just learning the bare minimum in order to rush a video
British Guyana 🇬🇾 next 🙏
Local indigenous people trampled and screwed
The majority is black...
@@naughtiusmaximus3690 i don't think so.... you're wrong. When colonization, if that's the term to use instead of domination, occured the South American people were light skinned
@@jimbt9889 no, i talk about today population in french guiana, they're mostly black
People of African descent make up 66% of French Guiana's population.
Why not ?
Honestly I'm trying to learn all the countries in the world just because I'm terrible with geography and just found out that some of France is in South America??? That's crazy lol.
Still the colonizer countries are the circle the European politics, Economy and Culturally.. ex France, UK and Germany And Italy..
Now someone will say How Germany and Italy becoz most of European immigrants 45 to 50% were form These two countries!
Only the vast majority of German immigrants are not from their former colonists. Germany never colonized Turkey.
Mate you're literally called Imperial Russia and Russia still occupies Siberia and much of the Caucusus and is doing neocolonialism in Ukraine as we speak I don't think have any grounds to talk about 'the colonizer countries'
Colonisation still exists
Well yes but french overseas territories can't really be considered colonies anymore. Some are autonomous but most are integral parts of France. And of course all of them profit from being part of France even if they are still poorer than the mainland. That is why there are either no independence movements of any significance (La Réunion, Martinique Guadeloupe ...) or the people have voted against (Guyane and New Caledonia).
That is not colonization. Guiyana and all of French Overseas territories are considered as region or "départements". They all had a referendum, a vote for leaving France but they said no. Colonization is when its forced
@@padinspi11 Who voted no? the native population that was genocided by french or the french colonists living there?
@@rn7763 the people who live there voted no.
@@rn7763 Genocide? I think you can go to wikipedia and you will see that the French territories outside Europe are mainly inhabited by "people of color".
They are not colonies and they are not inhabited by settlers, or slaves, or anything else.
You don't know what is genocide obviously.