Which Countries Still Have Colonies TODAY?

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  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  Před 2 lety +697

    *Are there any other 'colonies'?* (also yes I mistakenly pointed out the wrong Guyana, sorry!)
    Another quick note: Perhaps the title choice wasn't ideal, my point is more that these areas *began as colonies* and *remain their colonizers' territory today, even if not as colonies*

    • @un_quidam_zonant
      @un_quidam_zonant Před 2 lety +17

      [REMOVED]
      Also, there's no such thing as French *Guyana* in English.
      There's only the sovereign nation of 🇬🇾 *Guyana* and the French overseas region known as 🇬🇫 'French *Guiana'* .
      Guiana is the name of the region they are both located. "French Guyana" is just 🇬🇾 Guyana under 🥖 French rule.

    • @cassianoneto1553
      @cassianoneto1553 Před 2 lety +14

      @@un_quidam_zonant the Guiana mistake is understandable tho, specially for a Portuguese speaker in witch both Guyanas are written the same way.

    • @N00BY40
      @N00BY40 Před 2 lety +2

      Hey I was about to say that !

    • @ematta
      @ematta Před 2 lety +5

      Last i checked puerto rico is still being exploited and is a colony.

    • @un_quidam_zonant
      @un_quidam_zonant Před 2 lety +3

      @@cassianoneto1553
      Yeah, I know. I didn't mean to tick him off.
      I know there's still going to be a lot of people who are going to mix them up, which is perfectly understandable.
      I just left that I needed to point that out because it's a video meant to inform other people so might as well being pedantic here since that's the adequate place y'know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @michaelgonzalez-casiano1769
    @michaelgonzalez-casiano1769 Před 2 lety +2717

    Guyana is independent, French Guiana (Guyane) is 2 countries to the right

    • @moeszyslak260
      @moeszyslak260 Před 2 lety +153

      Was just about to comment the very same, then I saw yours right at the top 😂

    • @un_quidam_zonant
      @un_quidam_zonant Před 2 lety +159

      "French Guyana", in English, just mean 🇬🇾 Guyana ...
      but under French rule. 😐
      *In English* (the rules change depending on the language), the French ultramarine region is called *"🇬🇫 French Guiana"* ... just like the name of the region where all of them (i.e. 🇻🇪 Guayana Region, 🇬🇾 Guyana, 🇸🇷 Suriname, 🇨🇵 French Guiana, 🇧🇷 Amapá) are located : *"Guiana"* or the Guianas.
      Both can be used pretty much interchangeably to designate the same, although from my understanding, the latter can sometimes be used for referring particularly to the territories located between the two Latin American countries (🇧🇷🇻🇪).
      They're not only spelt but also pronounced differently from one another :
      *Guyanese* is the adjective used for people and things related to 🇬🇾 Guyana.
      *Guianan* is used for people or things related to the region that encompasses them all.
      ▪︎Guyana : czcams.com/video/6o7GiwYl4Gc/video.html (Don't pay attention to the last one, they're actually talking about French Guiana)
      ▪︎Guiana : czcams.com/video/g5bHSo9sqZs/video.html/
      So, in short ...
      There are actually 2 *Guianan* sovereign countries (Guyana & Suriname) AND 3 subnational *Guianan* territories that are part of a larger country (Amapá, Guayana Region, with the last one being French Guiana, which is similar to what Hawaii is to the United States)

    • @MegaWunna
      @MegaWunna Před 2 lety +11

      I saw that and nearly stared to write a comment myself about it and saw this so opted to not

    • @superman6468
      @superman6468 Před 2 lety +5

      Yeah, same, I was gonna comment that to

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 2 lety +570

      My mistake!

  • @meatilicious1900
    @meatilicious1900 Před 2 lety +1693

    "Britain makes a colony so big it makes colonies"

  • @thephantomofyoutube7346
    @thephantomofyoutube7346 Před 2 lety +566

    2:55 French Guiana is an integral part of France and its people are French, calling it a colony will be like calling Alaska a colony of the US

    • @AdamSmith-gs2dv
      @AdamSmith-gs2dv Před 2 lety +94

      Same with Mayotte and Reunion, both of them are completely 100% part of France

    • @kyrozephyr8628
      @kyrozephyr8628 Před 2 lety +36

      Well Alaska kind of is a colony of USA. And French Guiana is also one. Just because the natives hardly exist in American Alaska doesn't change the fact that it's a colony.

    • @thephantomofyoutube7346
      @thephantomofyoutube7346 Před 2 lety +120

      @@kyrozephyr8628 A colony is a place which doesn't have representation in its homeland example Puerto Rico and British Virgin Islands... Alaska and French Guiana have representation and are considered to be integral parts of USA and France respectively

    • @kyrozephyr8628
      @kyrozephyr8628 Před 2 lety +3

      @@thephantomofyoutube7346 That's not a definition of a colony.

    • @thephantomofyoutube7346
      @thephantomofyoutube7346 Před 2 lety +17

      @@kyrozephyr8628 Yea but that's a good way to figure out the difference... A colony is a territory that is controlled by a country but not part of that country, Alaska is part of the US but Puerto Rico is a territory of the US not part of it (yet)

  • @mahatmarandy5977
    @mahatmarandy5977 Před 2 lety +186

    French Guiana is an overseas department of the French republic. As I understand it the relationship there is pretty much the same as the relationship between Hawaii and the United States: it is a constituent but not continuous part. Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States because it has no real say in the governing the country, Hawaii is not a colony because it has a say in the running of the country it is part of. Likewise French Guyana is effectively a state of France.

    • @masonharvath-gerrans832
      @masonharvath-gerrans832 Před 2 lety +11

      But the dynamic between the locals in Guiana and France is inherently colonial. The high culture is still in Paris, not Cayenne. Even if the language is shared, there is still inherent differences that are colonial in nature, regardless of the official status.

    • @popkhorne5372
      @popkhorne5372 Před 2 lety +47

      @@masonharvath-gerrans832 couldnt the same be said about france and Corsica, la réunion, or even any of the regions composing mainland france ? They all have cultural elements that distinguish them from each other, all have the same representation in the legislative sphere. So technically there is no such thing here as a colonial dynamic. But that is only if you look at the law. Yes, in effect guiana remains very different from france and whereas it would be unthinkable for any of the french regions to want to leave, guiana could. But neither of them can declare it. However i have to say that the independance policy with actual colonies with natives still living there, like new caledonia, has been exemplary compared to the rest of the world. Quebec got one chance to vote its independance. New caledonia got 3 and only with people who were born there.
      But then all this reasoning actually does not apply just to former colonies, but to former conquests in general as well. Tibet for china for example. Catalogna for spain. The islands between russia and japan.
      The key factor for me is integration. Are each of these countries integrating the people of the "disputable" part of their country into their society ? In the case of france, yes, for sure. There are many people from "outre mer" in particular from the carribean or la Réunion who come to study, work and live in france and they are part of the country. Essentially because while these islands are very good vacation spots, overall there is not much to do here, unless swimming all the time is your thing. The inhabitants of these parts of france enjoy the ability to go live their younger years and even their familly life in mainland france, to come back to see familly, or for retirement on their island. Usually the main subject of contention is not about leaving france or not. Its about the government neglecting and not investing enough money in those departments, because they are far away. But that doesnt mean france doesnt take care of these at all. It just means that its true that the government gives prefference to where most people live : Mainland.
      It would be jarring for france to suddenly let go of these islands, because well, many people from these islands have made their life in france... it may be far away, the islands may have different cultures overall, but they are still kind of integrated into french society... into the very heart of it in fact.

    • @mahatmarandy5977
      @mahatmarandy5977 Před 2 lety

      Mason Harvath-Gerrans that is a subtler distinction that I am capable of making. All I can say is that in any large country you were going to have a lot of cultural divergences between one end of it and another. California is very different from New York. Vancouver is very different from Newfoundland. Alaska is very different from both California and New York, and Hawaii is yet even more different from all of the three. And yet the commonalities outweigh the differences. I am not saying that as a universal thing, there are obviously very many countries with constituent cultures that are more disparate examples I cited. But if you grew up in the southeastern United States, then you will likely have a different accent and a different word choices and different taste preferences and generally somewhat different cultural experiences than if you grew up in the Pacific Northwest. These can be substantial, but they are basically outweighed by the commonalities Of mass culture, shared history, basic expectations, and a bunch of other things.
      So I cannot give an answer in any intelligent way, I can simply point out that any large successful country with a lengthy history behind it, such as France, Russia, China, United States, are all going to have a lot of variation from region to region, but a colonial relationship is inherently very unequal. And to my ignorant outsider perspective that does not appear to be the case with French Guyana. I freely admit that I may be wrong however, because my understanding of the situation is extremely superficial.

    • @mahatmarandy5977
      @mahatmarandy5977 Před 2 lety

      Pop Khorne I agree with you. That is the way the situation seems to me as well, though I am an outsider have very shallow understanding.

    • @popkhorne5372
      @popkhorne5372 Před 2 lety +5

      @@mahatmarandy5977 as someone who is french i can offer an other piece of the picture being one who knows just how many people come from these removed islands (as well as guyana) to live with us in france. But of course we are still missing the most key piece : the opinion of a native of french guyanna.

  • @colinmacphee
    @colinmacphee Před 2 lety +2040

    French Guiana isn’t considered a colony by the UN because it’s at the same level as other regions of mainland France. That’s why

    • @beyondthecosmosx
      @beyondthecosmosx Před 2 lety +332

      it is part of the eu, even tho they are not in Europe

    • @Mashfi23
      @Mashfi23 Před 2 lety +84

      @@beyondthecosmosx
      Same as Cyprus then?

    • @cassianoneto1553
      @cassianoneto1553 Před 2 lety +70

      Although it is still distinct from mainland France legally speaking, specially with regards to NATO and other international treaties.

    • @sizanogreen9900
      @sizanogreen9900 Před 2 lety +18

      @@beyondthecosmosx that is literally just semantics. Not a concept I want my world to spin around.

    • @christophermaybury4918
      @christophermaybury4918 Před 2 lety +306

      French Guiana is to France as Hawaii is to the U.S. It’s not a colony, it’s a state!

  • @marcblokpoel
    @marcblokpoel Před 2 lety +753

    In the case of the Netherlands, each caribbean island was given the choice of complete independence, but they all chose to remain within the Kingdom. So calling it "keeping these islands by incorporating them" is misleading. Therefore nobody sees these islands as "colonies" because they aren't.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 2 lety +123

      I didn't know that! I agree then. I guess they're still remains of the colonial empire, as they became part of the kingdom during those times, but you're right that they are no longer colonies if they chose to remain as part of the Netherlands

    • @un_quidam_zonant
      @un_quidam_zonant Před 2 lety +47

      @@General.Knowledge
      Yeah, that's the reason Suriname was able to become a sovereign state whilst the others remained as parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

    • @JohnSmith-sl2qc
      @JohnSmith-sl2qc Před 2 lety +4

      @@fgsaramago What?

    • @JohnSmith-sl2qc
      @JohnSmith-sl2qc Před 2 lety +5

      @@fgsaramago I don't understand what the hell you're trying to say

    • @JohnSmith-sl2qc
      @JohnSmith-sl2qc Před 2 lety +19

      @@fgsaramago The Dutch territories in the Caribbean aren't colonies. They want to stay a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Just because you feel it's a colony doesn't mean it is

  • @ElHeraldoHispano
    @ElHeraldoHispano Před 2 lety +185

    The Canary Islands are divided into 2 PROVINCES (just like the rest of mainland Spain), Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. They both have the same exact status as any other province in the peninsula; they are not a "colony".

    • @lofdan
      @lofdan Před 2 lety +41

      Same with Ceuta and Melilla.

    • @yassine9826
      @yassine9826 Před 2 lety +4

      @@lofdan same with gibraltar then

    • @lofdan
      @lofdan Před 2 lety +15

      @@yassine9826 no

    • @yassine9826
      @yassine9826 Před 2 lety +1

      @@lofdan why

    • @mauriciomontiel280
      @mauriciomontiel280 Před 2 lety +17

      @@yassine9826 it is a colony of the United Kingdom claimed by Spain

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o Před 2 lety +42

    3:20 the Canaries were not deserted. There were native Guanche people.

    • @strangertimes6844
      @strangertimes6844 Před 2 lety +5

      There were a lot of mistakes in this one video for some reason, I live here and hearing that wrong information irked me, a quick Google search is all it takes to see the historical status of the islands...

  • @SLVperso
    @SLVperso Před 2 lety +479

    La Guyane (what you call French Guyana) is not a colony, it's part of France since before US creation, each citizen has exactly the same rights and duties as people from the european part of France.

    • @kevinbertet3220
      @kevinbertet3220 Před 2 lety +93

      @@fgsaramago But what if the people living in the so-called 'colony' refused independence and expressed to remain French citizens? La Guyane functions like any other French region/department. It's their will to remain French. Who are you to say that they live in a colony and, therefore, that they are not 'real' French citizens? They have deputies and senators representing them at the Parliament, just like any other French department. Don't get me wrong, I do understand what you mean, it USED TO be a colony, no one is denying that fact. But, if the locals voted and decided to remain French, then you should just accept that.

    • @SLVperso
      @SLVperso Před 2 lety +42

      @@fgsaramago Actually Porto ricain do not have the same right at all. But if we use your own definition of colony okay, but how far we go with that? Hawaii is obviously a colony, Alaska too ... and what about long Island, is it attached enough (and most of them are born there)? I am not even talking about UK and Japan, just archipelago of colony with your definition.

    • @kevinbertet3220
      @kevinbertet3220 Před 2 lety +57

      @@fgsaramago Please stop assuming that we are 'brainwashed', having a debate and expressing different opinion does not mean that one party is brainwashed. We are just educating yourself regarding the status of La Guyane, as you seem to be lacking some knowledge about it, obviously. The Guyanais chose to remain French, they refused any further autonomy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_French_Guianan_status_referendum). Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge that? La Guyane is even part of the European Union. They chose it, democratically, however, you consider it a colony. It looks like you don't even accept the local people's self-determination. You are clearly mixing the definitions of "colonies" and of "non-self-governing territories". Each word has a meaning, a specific definition.

    • @SLVperso
      @SLVperso Před 2 lety +16

      @@fgsaramago There not accepeted definition of colony, only definition of non non-self-governing territories by United nation. Surprisingly, country with strong independence movement as well as strong integration movement but still private of voting right such as Puerto Rico are not entering on the definition whereas territory that regularly vote to remain attached as a province, with their own administrative government, elected, exactly the same rights as other citizens, are considered as "non-self-governing territories". It seems like a very political definition. -- PS: you could note that I have not talk about Polynesie Francaise, their case is more questionable.

    • @kevinbertet3220
      @kevinbertet3220 Před 2 lety +11

      @@SLVperso That's very true. French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France. I am not an expert on their status. From what I understood, Polynesians have more autonomy, they even have their own local government and president, but they are still French citizens and can vote for national elections too. It's more or less like a country (French Polynesia) within another (French Republic). Here is what I found on Wikipedia: "As a French overseas collectivity, the local government has no competence in justice, university education, security and defense. Services in these areas are directly provided and administered by the Government of France, including the National Gendarmerie (which also polices rural and border areas in metropolitan France), and French military forces. The collectivity government retains control over primary and secondary education, health, town planning, and the environment."

  • @alaint
    @alaint Před 2 lety +397

    2:35 you're pointing Guyana as french, but Guyana is not Guyane Française (which is 2 borders to the right, it's the one on the thumbnail btw)
    2:59 Although I can understand the status for New Caledonia (which as its own section in the french constitution), I don't understand French Polynesia? Maybe it's because they use Francs and not Euros? But Wallis et Futuna should also be on the map then...
    I will add to my comment that the populations from these overseas territories are all french citizens (not all are EU citizens tho) and they can all vote for the president

    • @hugohom2280
      @hugohom2280 Před 2 lety +16

      yeah its like saying that the channel islands are british colonies

    • @cassianoneto1553
      @cassianoneto1553 Před 2 lety +2

      French Guyana and French Polynesia are still legally distinct from mainland France, being part of the Ulramarine parts of the country. It’s not a meaningless distinction either, there are aspects of everyday life handled differently in France depending if you live in Metropolitan France or overseas.

    • @sizanogreen9900
      @sizanogreen9900 Před 2 lety +3

      greenland also has its own government and decides most things for itself, so more of an autonomous territory than a colony

    • @matthings4133
      @matthings4133 Před 2 lety +1

      i was about to say the same :)

    • @xaviertricot776
      @xaviertricot776 Před 2 lety +13

      @@fgsaramago only 5% of French Guyana's population are natives. The other one are slaves or slave drivers descendant... what do we do then ? Should we sent back people to Europe and Africa based on skin color ? 🤔 (sounds racist to me but maybe I m just another brainwashed guy...).
      It is clear that France has a problem with its ultracentralised power in Paris, but that problem is the same if you're from Kourou or Marseilles.

  • @maciej_viking
    @maciej_viking Před 2 lety +70

    Canary Islands weren't deserted when the Spanish came. Guanche - indigenous people - lived there and were overpowered.

    • @alexandrealphonse69
      @alexandrealphonse69 Před rokem +1

      I've met some rabid Spanish nationalists from Canarias who looked less Spaniard than a German LMFAO. There are still guanches ot at least canarios that look more like Native South Americans rather than proper Spaniards,

    • @gordonchild273
      @gordonchild273 Před rokem +1

      Berber/Amazigh origins*

    • @MrAmhara
      @MrAmhara Před rokem

      @@alexandrealphonse69 They don't look like
      "Native Americans" at all. If anything they are Mullatos.

    • @zorrolimonero
      @zorrolimonero Před rokem +1

      @@alexandrealphonse69 Hey, can I ask you a question? Do you believe the Spanish did a mass genocide back then? Or is it just not true?

    • @elcapitandorado9805
      @elcapitandorado9805 Před rokem

      ​@@gordonchild273no

  • @elizabeth1stofenglandirela901

    Hi! For Greenland, it isn't considered a colony. It was until 1953 they were made a district and even has their own people in the Danish Parliament, they have a police force, their own government and in return Denmark provides defense and much more. So chances of them leaving Denmark is little to zero as Denmark does also provides them 500 Million US Dollars to help them and either way Greenlanders do not wish to leave Denmark. USA did tried to buy Greenland and China did tried to buy an abandoned base on Greenland but Denmark refused. And either way, you know the deal Greenlanders don't wish to leave Denmark. 😅

  • @jorgeh.r9879
    @jorgeh.r9879 Před 2 lety +325

    The UN list is just absurd. There are territories in there that have voted to maintain their current situation, and regions like Tibet or Kurdistan are never thought of when we hear about colonies. And then we have the Western Sahara issue, that the UN still irrationally recognizes as a Spanish colony.

    • @AlCarrollDr
      @AlCarrollDr Před 2 lety +22

      The UN actually considers it as ruled against its will by Morocco, and recognizes the Polisario Front as the legit representatives of Western Sahara. It lobbied for decades for Spain to give it up when it was still their colony.

    • @jorgeh.r9879
      @jorgeh.r9879 Před 2 lety +28

      @@AlCarrollDrI think you are wrongly informed. The UN still recognizes the WS as a Spanish colony and as it being administered as such.

    • @asherl5902
      @asherl5902 Před 2 lety +21

      The UN says Western Sahara is Spanish because while the referendum for deciding their future was being made by the Spanish government, Spain's King just decided to gift it to Morocco's King illegally, who military invaded, colonized and commited genocide there, replacing the population with Moroccans, because the phosphate mines there. If the UN recognised the “changing of ownership” in WS, they would be saying Morocco is the rightful owner of the land and that it can do whatever it wants with the colony, as it would be thence recognized as part of their country in any way.

    • @jorgeh.r9879
      @jorgeh.r9879 Před 2 lety +30

      @@asherl5902 Except the fact that Spain didn't just happily gift the WS to Morrocco, everything you said is correct. The problem is that the UN should recognize the WS and it's goverment as independent and pressure Morrocco to withdraw from it.

    • @asherl5902
      @asherl5902 Před 2 lety

      ​@@jorgeh.r9879 Yeah, but it has been discovered not so much time ago that the former king accorded with the king of Morocco to give him the territory so he and other parties would support his reign as the appointed heir of a dictactor. The cesion and planned invasion were an ugly surprise for Spaniards and Sahrawis and even for the Spanish government itself

  • @mcmeyer1785
    @mcmeyer1785 Před 2 lety +55

    For Spain, the Plazas de Soberania have their own legislatures and elect someone to the Spanish parliament, similar to "European" Spain & the Canary Islands. It's not necessarily a colony and these Autonomous Cities have full representation and rights (unlike US territories).
    Denmark & The Netherlands have sort of similar situations. Their overseas territories have their own legislatures and laws. The overarching "federal" government is in charge of foreign affairs and defense. An example: The Netherlands, known for being the first country with same-sex marriage, has different laws than Curaçao, Aruba and St. Maarten and same-sex marriages are not performed here. New Zealand seems to fall under this category as well.
    France's situation is similar to the US. Hawaii is a US State and is seen as an integral part of the country, rather than a colony (like Puerto Rico). French Guiana is a department, just like any other part of Metropolitan France, it is part of the EU and uses the Euro. The overseas collectivities can upgrade, but haven't chosen to do so.
    Norway is an odd one to include imo, due to the reasons listed in this video and the inhabited Islands are literally of their coast.
    I'm not sure about the Australian situation, but it seems to look like the UK and New Zealand.
    I'm quite unaware with how the UK does it, but I know that most territories have their own local parliaments, with the UK retaining foreign affairs and defense (similar to Denmark, The Netherlands & New Zealand (& Australia too I guess)).
    I think the US's territories are most like colonies, as the federal government (in contrast to the other "colonizers") holds more legislative over their territories without any (voting) representation. Puerto Rico is perhaps the most well known case and to me is the most colony-like place in the world.
    Another country I'd like to add to the list in China. Hong Kong and Macau are self-governing, but defense and (most) foreign affairs are conducted through the government in Beijing, which encroaches on the rights of HK and Macau and are thus not fully self-governing. 40% of Hong Kongers aged between 15 and 24 wanted the territory to become independent.
    Important to note is that (like the video notes) most people in these territories don't actually want independence and are rather overseas territories of other countries.

    • @nc3826
      @nc3826 Před rokem

      those living in US territories are US citizens and have full rights.... and have held numerous referendums on the subject of independence, which have always lost.....
      and calling the former colonized parts of China such as Hong Kong and Macau, colonies of China..... Seriously???
      europhile perspectives on the world.... lmao

  • @iluvcurryandbeer
    @iluvcurryandbeer Před 2 lety +52

    Some of the UK Overseas Territories are simply too small to be independent, for example, the Pitcairn Islands only have a population of 50, I just wonder why they didn't become the responsibility of NZ

    • @Brucemcleod2345
      @Brucemcleod2345 Před rokem +1

      We don’t want it. Let Britain fund it

    • @ACoolKidsProduction
      @ACoolKidsProduction Před rokem +5

      They're closer to South America than NZ.

    • @Jonas-rq1mi
      @Jonas-rq1mi Před rokem

      during their big scandal they were charged by new zealand I believe

    • @iluvcurryandbeer
      @iluvcurryandbeer Před rokem +2

      @@Jonas-rq1mi The trial was under the Pitcairn legal code. The UK asked the NZ judiciary etc to try the case on their behalf. During the trial it was ruled that Britain had authority over the Island

    • @Jonas-rq1mi
      @Jonas-rq1mi Před rokem

      @@iluvcurryandbeer Thank you for clearing it up!

  • @jososebasket
    @jososebasket Před 2 lety +301

    I don't get why he lists Spains Ceuta and Melilla when they are fully integrated in Spain and have no separatist movements

    • @BaniasSyria
      @BaniasSyria Před 2 lety +35

      Because Morroco still claim them

    • @jososebasket
      @jososebasket Před 2 lety +121

      @@BaniasSyria but then all territorial disputes (with inhabitants) are colonies then? Cause the list of disputes is huge, and those places are not considered colonies

    • @faithnfire4769
      @faithnfire4769 Před 2 lety +52

      @@BaniasSyria I'm sure there are a few Greek guys who would like to claim Istanbul for old times sake. The loss of that city (Constantinople) was comparable in time to the acquisition of those cities by the Iberians. So idk if that counts as a colony, maybe a revanchist position, but not a colonial question.

    • @jgr7487
      @jgr7487 Před 2 lety +18

      because the General is butthurt that Portugal lost all its ultramarine territories but Madeira & Açores.

    • @al-ejo
      @al-ejo Před 2 lety +10

      @@BaniasSyria Then Alsace Lorraine was a colony? Olivenza was a colony? Danzig was a colony?

  • @gorzux2829
    @gorzux2829 Před 2 lety +184

    You forgot to mention Chile and its sovereignty over Rapa Nui, it's an amazing case to analyze and how a Latin American nation expanded outside its own continent. The whole colonization of the southeastern pacific ocean by Chile is just really really interesting, and also the whole Antarctica colonization

    • @Fiddling_while_Rome_burns
      @Fiddling_while_Rome_burns Před 2 lety +9

      Is it a colony or just an occupation of a foreign country, the locals seem to se it that way.

    • @gorzux2829
      @gorzux2829 Před 2 lety +15

      The term colony was pretty loosely used in this video as an exclave of some sorts with disputed sovereignty of a metropoli and the residents of that territory. So the current situation in Rapa Nui could be considered as a colonial dispute, specially because it was actually annexed and then colonized by the Chilean Republic since 1888

    • @mapache-ehcapam
      @mapache-ehcapam Před 2 lety +7

      You beat me to it, and their inhabitants were given Chilean citizenship very recently, in 1966.
      We could also make the argument that Chile colonized Juan Fernandez archipelago and the Desventuradas Islands, the first one being practically uninhabited before and the second one being practically uninhabited now(and before).

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 2 lety +32

      Also very interesting!

    • @gorzux2829
      @gorzux2829 Před 2 lety +4

      @@mapache-ehcapam Yeah, the whole Chilean Archipelago consisting of Islas; San Ambrosio, San Félix, Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk, Salas y Gómez, Rapa Nui, Mocha, Diego Ramírez, Grande de Chiloé, Rey Jorge, etcétera.

  • @opieutt9038
    @opieutt9038 Před 2 lety

    I like this, especially your graphics.

  • @Solo_Traveling
    @Solo_Traveling Před 2 lety +16

    The Canary Islands are not a colony, you're right. They're Spanish territory. They're an Autonomous Comunity (Comunidad Autonoma), like the ones in mainland Spain. Btw they weren't empty when the Spaniards arrived. The Guanche people lived there. Also Ceuta and Melilla aren't colonies either, as they are, again, Spanish territory (they don't have the colonial status

  • @starman1144
    @starman1144 Před 2 lety +63

    2:24 You used the wrong Guiana here.

  • @sergioalfaya1270
    @sergioalfaya1270 Před 2 lety +54

    The Canarys were inhabited before Spanish arrival! Native Guanches inhabited the area for hundreds of years and it took spain almos 100 years to win the war against them.

  • @benedictus88able
    @benedictus88able Před 2 lety +1

    thanks for this good summary....worth further exploration

  • @dieucondorimperial2509
    @dieucondorimperial2509 Před rokem +24

    2:55 French Guyana is France. Seriously, the only difference is the continent. It’s a french department ( one of our administrative division ) no different from any rural part of France. Yes, the distance and the low density of population make it harder to develop French Guyana ( and a bit of a lack of interest from French politicians towards French Guyana), whereas the British Virgin Islands aren’t directly part of the United Kingdom.

  • @petiteexplication6249
    @petiteexplication6249 Před 2 lety +58

    The canary islands werent deserted they had people already there

  • @theangel3232
    @theangel3232 Před 2 lety +123

    Ceuta and Melilla are autonomous cities, not colonies. The UN has never considered them colonies.
    Plus, Ceuta was European from 1415 and Melilla from 1497; 606 years and 524 years respectively. It makes no sense to continue considering them "colonies" because they are on the African coast.

    • @petiteexplication6249
      @petiteexplication6249 Před 2 lety +5

      But Morocco still claim them to this with the support of all the Arab countries and most African countries and if it wqs clear that it belonged to spain without no question then it wouldnt have caused a diplomatic crisis between the 2 countries recently

    • @mr.d00m37
      @mr.d00m37 Před 2 lety +4

      Unofficial colony.

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 2 lety +18

      @@petiteexplication6249
      I never said that anyone questioned it, only that the UN has never considered them as non-self-governing territories.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 2 lety +21

      That's true! My point was just that they began as, arguably, colonies at the time they were conquered. The conquest of Ceuta by Portugal is regarded by many as the beginning of the Portuguese _colonial_ empire. A region that began as a colony, first of Portugal and then of Spain, is _still_ under Spanish control today. It isn't necessarily a colony now, but I would say it began as such

    • @jgr7487
      @jgr7487 Před 2 lety +4

      @@General.Knowledge if it wasn't for those pesky communists, Portugal would still hold territory in all continents but the Americas.
      I'm not Portuguese.

  • @Benjamin-zt9vn
    @Benjamin-zt9vn Před 2 lety

    Great video!!

  • @FriedrichBarb
    @FriedrichBarb Před 2 lety +1

    Great video

  • @joewatson3386
    @joewatson3386 Před 2 lety +12

    As a relative and having connections to St Helena ( a British overseas territory) I don’t feel it’s a colony as their wernt any settlers on the island before discovery and it played a big part in trade with Africa and India

  • @mrterp04
    @mrterp04 Před 2 lety +371

    Fun fact: thanks to the Pitcairn Islands, it can still be said that “The sun never sets on the British Empire”

    • @TitaniumSteelGreatest
      @TitaniumSteelGreatest Před 2 lety +78

      @@fgsaramago not yet
      *distant British music intensifies*

    • @koldaf
      @koldaf Před 2 lety +8

      @@TitaniumSteelGreatest don't worry it won't ever again

    • @eliaslaurent479
      @eliaslaurent479 Před 2 lety +48

      Virgin "The Sun never sets on the British Empire" VS Chad "The Sun never sets on the French Republic"

    • @mysteriousDSF
      @mysteriousDSF Před 2 lety +3

      Also thanks to the Pitcairn islands, institutionalised pedophilia is still a thing today, even outside of the royal family. *proud liz the 2nd noises*

    • @dead.dummy678
      @dead.dummy678 Před 2 lety +4

      @@TitaniumSteelGreatest When Britain fiiiiiiiirst at heaven's command.....

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc Před 2 lety +17

    St. Pierre & Miquelon are the last remnants of “New France” but do to the short runways at the two airports (one on each island), there are no direct flights to France, only to Canada and I believe Boston (at least seasonally).

    • @noelgenoway9360
      @noelgenoway9360 Před rokem +2

      St Pierre and Miquelon are used by France to fish of the east coast of Canada! These islands should be part of Canada!

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito Před rokem

      *due to

    • @schalitz1
      @schalitz1 Před rokem

      They now have seasonal (summer) flights directly to Paris with a charted 737-700.

    • @Occitan-Descoteaux
      @Occitan-Descoteaux Před 9 měsíci

      @@noelgenoway9360french were in Kanada 200 years before the Brit’s, stay easy red coat

  • @ljphoenix4341
    @ljphoenix4341 Před 2 lety +7

    As a New Zealander, for what I know, Nuie and Tokelau heavily depend on New Zealand for economic reasons, and they wouldn't be able to sustain themselves if they became independent. The Cook Islands has their own Prime Minister, Mark Brown, and is almost completely self governing, only being tied to NZ through a free association agreement, and a few political and economic reasons. They have their own EEC, and their own currency, The Cook Islands Dollar, but also use the New Zealand Dollar in some cases.

    • @bullis1858
      @bullis1858 Před 2 lety

      The Cook Islands uses NZ dollars almost exclusively now, I think they still have the $3 Cook island note and coins (they use NZ coins as well) but the rest is all NZ currency.

  • @rallemeister9043
    @rallemeister9043 Před 2 lety +27

    Yo the native people of the canary islands fought for almost a century untill spain conquered the archipelago. Ofc today its as spanish as it gets, being under spanish rule for 500 years.

  • @Duncan23
    @Duncan23 Před 2 lety +77

    That UN list is ridiculous, I know for a fact most of the ones related to the UK have had multiple referendums and the voters wanted to stay connected to the UK. They are all pretty much fully self governing too.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 2 lety +11

      I don't really agree with it either! If that's the case why don't they remove them from the list?

    • @cassianoneto1553
      @cassianoneto1553 Před 2 lety +1

      Is consent a factor in defining a colony, tho? If the thirteen colonies never broke off the British Empire, would they eventually no longer be colonies?

    • @padinspi11
      @padinspi11 Před 2 lety +9

      And they forgot territories like Tibet who clearly are a port of a country they don't want to be a part of

    • @cassianoneto1553
      @cassianoneto1553 Před 2 lety +2

      @@padinspi11 Wanting to be a part of the country has nothing to do with a colony, you can argue Tibet is a colony on the grounds that China is settling people of Han culture and trying to exterminate the local customs, but occupation and colonization are completely different things. Hitler was content with just occupying France, for example, while he wanted to colonize the USSR with Germans.

    • @padinspi11
      @padinspi11 Před 2 lety +11

      @@cassianoneto1553 no i meant the list of non self governing places by the UN in wich i believe Tibet should have been included

  • @rafaxd8178
    @rafaxd8178 Před 2 lety +63

    I dont understand why Ceuta and Melilla are supossed to be colonies: the only difference is that there are on the other side of 14 km of water.

    • @yassine9826
      @yassine9826 Před 2 lety +1

      In a different continent

    • @asherl5902
      @asherl5902 Před 2 lety +30

      @@yassine9826 But Western Thrace isn't supposed to be a colony of Turkey...

    • @gf4913
      @gf4913 Před 2 lety +3

      @@yassine9826 and?

    • @rafaxd8178
      @rafaxd8178 Před 2 lety +20

      @@yassine9826 so, Istambul is a colony of Turkey?

    • @RafaelSantos-pi8py
      @RafaelSantos-pi8py Před 2 lety +18

      Ceuta and melilla are spanish cities populated by spanish citizens for centuries. They are not colonies.

  • @Luredreier
    @Luredreier Před 2 lety +16

    5:31
    That's not correct.
    The islands even had a majority in favor of independence once.
    But with changing conditions the Faero islands and Greenland are no longer capable of fully supporting themselves.
    For one a lot of the fish in the Atlantic has been overfished so there's no longer enough profit from that to make those areas a net positive economically within the Danish kingdom, among other things.
    On the Faero islands the factions in favor of and against independence is roughly split in the middle with some in the middle between the two wanting independence but only if it won't come at the cost of living standards.
    Greenland is in a similar state from my understanding.
    A lot of people want independence there, but they're not in a rush and want it done the right way with a self sufficient economy after the independence.
    In both cases the Danish kingdom has treated the areas well enough that there's no rush towards independence even though both areas *want* it, and the independence movements in both places feel that they have time to gradually increase self governance while adapting the economy and society to prepare for independence.

    • @2712animefreak
      @2712animefreak Před rokem

      Greenland does have a provisional constitution that would go into effect upon independence. However, like you said, they are in no rush but everything is ready for the moment when they either find a new source of revenue or when Denmark fucks something up.

  • @augth
    @augth Před 2 lety +19

    Guiana to France is what Hawaii is to the US, exactly the same status as any part of metropolitan France (with minor legal ajustements due to isolation). Same goes for Réunion, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Mayotte. St-Martin and St-Bartélémy used to be part of Guadeloupe but they decided to have their own status. Polynesia, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon and Wallis&Futuna have special status with local government. New Caledonia has strong autonomy. It must be noted that all of these have representatives in Paris and elect the president.
    In fact they have bonuses that other parts of France don’t have.

    • @MrAmhara
      @MrAmhara Před rokem +4

      Not true. Guiana has the right to vote for independence. Hawaii does not.

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Před 9 měsíci +1

      ​@MrAmhara That's because Hawaii is an actual State that signed the Constitution. Puerto Rico and other territories have a right to vote for independence since they did not.

  • @funkybassss
    @funkybassss Před 2 lety +25

    As a New-caledonian, I can say that we aren't fully autonomous as you said. France still has the control over some important things (foreign affairs, army...) which are called the regalian powers. Nevertheless, we have a(nother) referendum of self-determination December 12th. at issue of this vote,2 possibilities:
    ----> independence
    ----> we remain in France and there's a period of 2 years in which we're modifying our status
    So, in fact, that autonomy will change in a few months

    • @Fragum19
      @Fragum19 Před 2 lety +1

      Is it expected that the New Caledonians will vote for independence?

    • @MasoMathiou
      @MasoMathiou Před 2 lety +2

      @@Fragum19 Can't tell ... it's probably going to be really close, as usual.

    • @bluesupremacist3085
      @bluesupremacist3085 Před 2 lety +4

      That's the difference between autonomous and independent. New Caledonia can almost do whatever they want in their internal politics but aren't independent so external politcs and very important matters are up to France

    • @funkybassss
      @funkybassss Před 2 lety

      @@Fragum19 It's almost 50/50 at each referendum, so we can't really guess rn.

    • @funkybassss
      @funkybassss Před 2 lety +1

      @@bluesupremacist3085 There is also the few billion Euros they give us each year to manage education, health, police...
      And those sectors are totally dependent from France

  • @Kole_D
    @Kole_D Před 2 lety +2

    I was always curious about this. Thanks for covering it! Very interesting.

  • @estovia4414
    @estovia4414 Před 2 lety +16

    France has 12 different timefuses.

  • @eukarya_
    @eukarya_ Před 2 lety +30

    A few corrections about the Spanish part:
    The Canary Islands where the only islands from Macaronesia that where inhabited prior to the arrival of the Europeans, in thus case by the people known as "guanches".
    Both Ceuta and Melilla and the "plazas de soberanía" aren't considered colonies even by the UN, Morocco tried to make a case for it but failed. The cities have been part of Spain since the 15th century for Melilla and the 16th for Ceuta (previously it was Portuguese, not Moroccan) and today are administered as any other part of the country would. They weren't even considered part of Spanish Morocco.
    You haven't talk about the actual last Spanish colony, the Western Sahara, due to complicated 70s diplomacy Spain still has sovereignty over the region, although Spain has always denies this as in practice has no influence in the region.

    • @gordonchild273
      @gordonchild273 Před rokem

      -The Guanches people of Canary were Berbers/Amazighs and genocided by spanish
      -Ceuta & Melilla is for Spain what Gibraltar is for the UK
      -Ex Spanish sahara were a spanish colony over Moroccan territory (Cherifian Empire) since 1884 to 1975, It was at the request of Morocco in 1963 that Ifni and the Spanish Sahara were included by the UN on the list of non-autonomous territories. with the Madrid Accords of 1975 (and Moroccan Green March) Spain leaves the territory who become Moroccan again and since 2022 Spain recognizes Morocco's regional autonomy plan as best solution
      -You don't talk about Sidi Ifni, Tarfaya, the Rif...

  • @tristanreejakobsen6157
    @tristanreejakobsen6157 Před rokem +4

    im danish and i have always heard the reason why greenland was still a part of denmark was cause they relied on denmark for economy reasons and maybe a little sprinkle of other things

  • @SR-jr5nh
    @SR-jr5nh Před 2 lety +22

    Literally pointing out spanish actual places that can't be considered in any way a colony-

    • @ylcard
      @ylcard Před 2 lety +1

      Found the butthurt nationalist xD

    • @_blank-_
      @_blank-_ Před 2 lety +4

      It's even more hypocritical since Morocco is actively colonizing Western Sahara.

    • @erica.7231
      @erica.7231 Před 2 lety +2

      @@ylcard I'm not even sure on this but throwing it to nationalism without context is a bit hyperbolic don't you think

  • @ilesdunord-noobyoutuber-sx9543

    I think its really cool to have my little island of Saint-Martin mentioned in any kind of video, so thanks mon ami. Leonardo Dicaprio poiting meme

  • @yesid17
    @yesid17 Před 2 lety +9

    Great video, thank you for putting into context the fact that independence in some places like the US and Brazil did not mean decolonization-in fact they became settler-colonial empires in their own right after gaining independence, some constructive criticism- 2:24 that was the wrong guiana lol [1], the Indigenous people of the Canaries [2] are called the Guanches [3], the Faroese were definitely there before the Danish [4], and they do have an independence movement [5], if you are interested in pronunciations I highly recommend forvo [6] and, last but not least, I disagree a little bit with your conclusion-not your premise-that the US has many territories from when US imperialism began-I'm just not sure when you are saying that it began, because the era of Pacific colonization was at the end of US imperialism-US imperialism began in 1763 when they disregarded the Proclamation of that year [7] which limited settlement (i.e. colonization/imperialism) to the eastern seaboard of the continent. I would argue a huge chunk of the US-if not all of it-is a colony of the 3rd type you mention at the end, but at the very least I feel like you should have mentioned Hawaii [8][9]. On a similar note, I would have mentioned Canada, and it's "Northwest Territories" [10] and I would have loved if you had expanded a little on the point at the beginning that a lot of the states/countries/governments in the americas are the direct descendants of the colonial governments of the 1600s. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15].
    Anyway great video! Keep up the good work
    [1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana
    [2] pronounced in English more like kn-ARY or kan-ARY, less like KAN-ary; forvo.com/word/canary_islands/#en ; en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canary
    [3] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanches
    [4] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islanders
    [5] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_independence_movement
    [6] forvo.com/word/anguilla/#en ; forvo.com/word/bermuda/#en ; forvo.com/word/montserrat/#en ; forvo.com/word/helena/#en
    [7] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763
    [8] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingdom
    [9] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_sovereignty_movement
    [10] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada#Territories
    [11] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island
    [12] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Araucan%C3%ADa
    [13] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Desert
    [14] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_genocide
    [15] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 Před rokem

      Excellent comment, and thank you especially for mentioning the California Genocide - it's an event that is unknown to more than 95% of Americans, even now in the 21st century.

  • @CarlAltair
    @CarlAltair Před rokem +7

    Tengo que corregir que Aunque Ceuta y Melilla con 2 ciudades Españolas en Africa, realmente no son consideradas como colonias ni por España ni la ONU. Ceuta y Melilla son de Facto, ciudades Independientes de España. Tipo Comunidad Autonoma, pero microscopico

  • @edwardblair4096
    @edwardblair4096 Před 2 lety +1

    As I understand it (from Wikipedia) the situation in Svalbard is more nuanced than you said. There was a treaty in the late 1800s or early 1900's that made it a neutral non-militarized zone that is administered from Norway. This was basically to avoid any wars breaking out over possession of the island.

  • @wallk9696
    @wallk9696 Před 2 lety +21

    French Guiana is 'self governing' unlike the British Virgin Islands because it is a department of France like any other. The people there vote in the same national elections with the same voting power as other French citizens.

    • @hood_avatar380
      @hood_avatar380 Před 2 lety +2

      facts also they use euros and has french passport

    • @hood_avatar380
      @hood_avatar380 Před 2 lety

      @@elnoideelsencarrecs8528 no wonder they're one of the racist countries on europe

    • @danielchera9214
      @danielchera9214 Před 2 lety +8

      @@elnoideelsencarrecs8528 how is it pure colonialism if there is no exploitation? The people of French Guiana have the same rights as those in Brittany for example. It's basically an administrative region of France like any other, just overseas

    • @danielchera9214
      @danielchera9214 Před 2 lety +11

      @@elnoideelsencarrecs8528 wow a mining company extracting resources just like literally anywhere else. I'm not sure what you are trying to say with that link, but if you want to be pedantic it is technically exploitation, however, of resources. I was referring to the exploitation of people since the exploitation of resources is everywhere and isn't necessarily a bad thing (at least in this context)

    • @danielchera9214
      @danielchera9214 Před 2 lety +9

      @@elnoideelsencarrecs8528 "In political science, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the metropolitan state." The people of French Guiana are integrated into the administration of continental France, and are therefore not a colony. It is also by self-determination that they are a French territory.

  • @Erased_UnityXDX
    @Erased_UnityXDX Před 2 lety +49

    4:08 "Return" wouldn't be the correct word as these places were spanish before Morroco existed

    • @petiteexplication6249
      @petiteexplication6249 Před 2 lety +14

      But Morocco was a state longer than Spain tho i will never understand the spaniards narrative on this subject

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 2 lety +31

      @@petiteexplication6249 The current Alaouite dynasty that reigns in Morocco, which is what we can understand as the predecessor of the current Kingdom of Morocco, was not established until 1631. Ceuta was conquered in 1415 and Melilla in 1497.
      Before that there were many states in the current territory of Morocco, as there were in Iberia.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 2 lety +14

      That's true!

    • @shironeko1843
      @shironeko1843 Před 2 lety +3

      @@theangel3232 thanks

    • @petiteexplication6249
      @petiteexplication6249 Před 2 lety +9

      @@theangel3232 but thats completely false thats like saying china didnt exist until the communist revolution Morocco as a sovereign state was established in 789

  • @pixel8596
    @pixel8596 Před rokem +3

    2:52 - French Guyana is an integral part of France, just like Algeria was. They vote in the presidential elections and have 2 representatives in parliament. It's qua status identical to the Paris district, a part of France. British Virgin Islands have, to a certain degree, self governing authority and autonomy, but still fall under rule of Parliament and the Queen and can't vote in for example prime minister elections or referendums like Brexit. (

    • @gontrandjojo9747
      @gontrandjojo9747 Před 9 měsíci

      Algeria was considered a colony because the indigenous population were not citizens, but subjects. Only the European and Jewish population were citizens.

  • @Kraniumbrud
    @Kraniumbrud Před 2 lety +2

    its also important to point out that the feroes and greenland has members of the parliament of denmark, to a degree that actually is more than the relatively small population should have

  • @darwizzyproductions
    @darwizzyproductions Před 2 lety +7

    France wasn’t next to Venezuela, it’s the one on the east

  • @corentin6835
    @corentin6835 Před 2 lety +8

    Some infos about New Caledonia independence (from France) :
    In 2017 and 2019, there were 2 referendums to make New Caledonia independant. They both ended up in the "No" to independence (around 55%). But recently a pro-independence "president" has been elected so maybe it will be independent one day because there will be an other referendum in 2021.
    But in fact this probably wont be independent. Because France really want to keep New Caledonia : there are mines with precious metals and also what we call in french ZEE, the maritime territory and the New C. one is more than 1 million km2 (btw France is the country with the biggest ZEE more than 11 millions km2).
    Sorry for my bad english im french

    • @Antti-ox1ho
      @Antti-ox1ho Před 2 lety +4

      Ton anglais est assez bien pour comprendre.:-) Salutations de la Finlande! :-) Terveiset Suomesta! :-)

    • @theazertoto6981
      @theazertoto6981 Před 2 lety

      It should be pointed out that the referendums were organised as if they wanted to chase New Caledonia out of France: as long as the NO won, there were 3+1 referendums as foreseen by the French constitution, but if the YES had won even one referendum then they would have had their independence.

  • @alukuhito
    @alukuhito Před rokem +2

    I've been to Guam and it was very much like being in Florida. It was totally American. Everyone speaks English, there are wide roads with the same American signage you see anywhere in the USA. Even though it's a small island, there's McDonald's, Taco Bell, Burger King, Pizza Hut, and other American chains. There are American gas stations and Americans cars driving everywhere. There's a big K-mart and a big shopping mall. Of course there's a bit of unique local stuff, but not much. It's so weird essentially being in the USA when you're on a very isolated island in the Pacific Ocean, closer to Asia than North America.

  • @rastalique8114
    @rastalique8114 Před rokem +6

    I am from Texas, but lived in Puerto Rico for a year. I would hear native refer to the island as their country, but proudly refer to themselves as U.S. citizens. Bud and Corona were both considered imported beer's. Yeah, it's complicated 😕.

  • @vm5312
    @vm5312 Před 2 lety +3

    your initial presentation of French Guiana is wrong(as you wrote in the comment section), it is two borders to the east. Although when you present overseas France it is at the right place. The French overseas territories which are departements don't have autonomy they have the same status and autonomy(none) as any other French departement in mainland France, even if they have had some to control the pandemic as their situation have been different from La Métropole.
    Apart from those inacuracies your video is great as usual.

  • @xaviertricot776
    @xaviertricot776 Před 2 lety +3

    I am suprised you did not talk about Mayotte 🇾🇹.
    Mayotte is an island of the Comoros archipelago, but in 1975 when France ran a local referendum for independance or not, Mayotte was the single island to choose to stay French.
    Furthermore, it became a French department only in 2011 under the pressure of the UN that ask France to clarify the situation with Comoros Islands 🇰🇲 and with the local governing system.
    There were/are very few people from mainland France in Mayotte and still they voted to become a French departement by 95%.

    • @erwannthietart3602
      @erwannthietart3602 Před rokem

      Tbf Mayotte just had to look at the rest lf the Comores to be extremely excited about being french in 2011^^'

  • @renatoe9648
    @renatoe9648 Před 2 lety +10

    several of the French areas like the Guyane work as overseas provinces and have full rights as any other french province so wouldnt count

    • @QWERTY-gp8fd
      @QWERTY-gp8fd Před 2 lety +1

      fancy way to say colony

    • @renatoe9648
      @renatoe9648 Před 2 lety +3

      @@QWERTY-gp8fd that would be like calling Alaska or Hawaii colonies, they also have full representation and rights, just happen to be far away from the rest of the country, a colony would be something like Puerto Rico with no representation and laws dictated by the mainland

    • @QWERTY-gp8fd
      @QWERTY-gp8fd Před 2 lety +1

      @@renatoe9648 nice whataboutism. guyana is not alaska or hawaii. totally different

    • @ghirahimlefabuleux8984
      @ghirahimlefabuleux8984 Před 2 lety +2

      @@QWERTY-gp8fd Yeah Hawaii and Alaska are colonies while Guyane is not. Why? I just said so and my bullshit has as much value as yours.

  • @matsgmichelsen
    @matsgmichelsen Před 2 lety +7

    Good attempt to cover a complicated topic! A remark on Danish colonies and how Denmark got them: they were part of the Norwegian "North Atlantic Empire" along with Iceland, but Norway became a Danish colony itself after the Black Death wiped out much of the country's ruling class. When Norway was handed over to Sweden in 1814 after the Napoleonic wars, Denmark got to keep the old colonies. Norway even tried to, unsuccessfully, claim parts of Greenland after it once again became indipendant in 1905.

    • @jorgenlarsen775
      @jorgenlarsen775 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Wrong - Norway was never a colony. Denmark-Norway was an multi-national and multi-lingual union consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway and overseas possessions as the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland. Denmark-Norway, had separate legal codes and currencies, and mostly separate governing institutions.

    • @matsgmichelsen
      @matsgmichelsen Před 7 měsíci

      @@jorgenlarsen775 Splitting hairs. Norway was a de facto colony.

  • @Britishgeohistorian
    @Britishgeohistorian Před 2 lety +15

    French Guiana isn't really a colony, it is an overseas department and holds the same amount of power as Corsica or other departments in mainland france therefore it is fully integrated into France

    • @Spacey_key
      @Spacey_key Před 2 lety

      And thanks to French Guiana ESA has Cosmodrome in the best possible place

    • @Luca-nu2zg
      @Luca-nu2zg Před 2 lety +3

      @@fgsaramago the difference is that the people of French Guiana democratically choose to be part of France. They can vote for independence

  • @WaveX3003
    @WaveX3003 Před 2 lety +4

    You marked the wrong Guiana at 2:34, I believe.

  • @billhudson2722
    @billhudson2722 Před 2 lety +2

    I listened carefully but I didn't hear Diego Garcia mentioned. The UK naval bases exchanged for USA destroyers also surely count as colonies of the USA. If "non-contiguous" is the criteria then Alaska might be included as another colony of the USA.

  • @molexi6537
    @molexi6537 Před 2 lety +69

    You forgot the largest European empire that still holds colonial lands - Russia. Most of the land east of the Urals are colonial lands even if not overseas territories.

    • @fardiorin9133
      @fardiorin9133 Před 2 lety +8

      It literally makes no sense how the people in Siberia and Far East are under Slavic rule thousands miles away

    • @richlisola1
      @richlisola1 Před 2 lety +8

      @@fardiorin9133 sure it makes sense, as much sense as the fact that your country has sovereignty over you

    • @Rivan98
      @Rivan98 Před 2 lety +2

      nobody wanted those cold lands they have no problem with russian rule

    • @camrat3460
      @camrat3460 Před 2 lety +2

      I'm happy for those who feel that way. They're still colonies, though.

    • @ivanzimin6608
      @ivanzimin6608 Před 2 lety +4

      All of these territories wasn't considered as colonies and aren't at the current state. The most important difference between colony and metropole state is citizenship. There was no difference between Siberian and European Russia's citizenship: they were equal even during Imperial times as well as during other more recent times. Also, natives were privileged: they didn't pay the whole amount of taxes and they didn't had to serve in army, while metropolitan state's citizenship was way better in colonial empires. And Siberia has the Russian majority. Let's see the statistic of dotations to regions: the most part of Siberian federal subjects are dotation regions, and government need to pay them money from federal budget to keep their econo,y working, while the most part of budget is formed by Central European regions and Hanty-Mansi autonomous okrug. Where did you see metropoly feeding its own colony to keep them straight? To sum up, it's really hard to say that Siberia is Russian colony

  • @zhangye1006
    @zhangye1006 Před 2 lety +7

    Doesn’t Finland have the Åland Islands?

    • @Mashfi23
      @Mashfi23 Před 2 lety

      They do

    • @AnnaKaunitz
      @AnnaKaunitz Před 2 lety

      Åland are an autonomous region and hardly deal with the Helsinki government except for foreign politics. Åland is demilitarised. This means that there may be no miltary presence in the province and the islands may not be fortified. Åland is also neutralised, and must therefore be kept outside the threat of war in case of conflict.
      Åland are native Swedish speakers. They have a “Swedish identity” to. I think they’d laugh at the “colony” concept 😂

    • @kevinlove4356
      @kevinlove4356 Před 2 lety

      @@AnnaKaunitz Åland has about the same level of autonomy as Canadian indian reservations. Which also have their own languages and culture. And whine mightily about "Canadian colonialism" while stretching out their hands for money from Canada.

  • @Labistouket
    @Labistouket Před 2 lety +106

    The UN has to stop saying France has colonies if EVERY SINGLE ONE of these territories have voted to stay French, some more than once. France has no colonies. All territories that wished to become independent are now independent. Just look at Comoros they voted to be independent now they are, Mayotte did not wish to join them so they re still French. Democracy is respected.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 2 lety +38

      I agree! France seems very respectful of local sovereignty and offers referendums whenever asked

    • @asherl5902
      @asherl5902 Před 2 lety +1

      However, in some of the French Colonies it's seems to me problematic, like French Polynesia, I mean I think the only referendum they had was actually about the French Community/Union more than really deciding their status (?)

    • @Labistouket
      @Labistouket Před 2 lety +16

      @@asherl5902 French Polynesia is actually one of the most Pro France overseas territories

    • @basedkaiser5352
      @basedkaiser5352 Před 2 lety +19

      Tahitian here. Fuck independence ! I love France and being French, I have families in Metropolitan France, many of us go to France when we reach majority for our studies or to go into the military. We have French passports therefore we are also E.U citizens, we have the same rights and duties as any Metropolitan French.

    • @christopheripoll2580
      @christopheripoll2580 Před 2 lety +15

      @@fgsaramago What a stupid way of thinking ! There is no more colony ! There are only more or less integrated territories !
      1/ Do you know that, in many of your so-called colonies, native and european populations are mixed ?
      2/ Do you know that those populations got the right to choose their fate ?
      3/ Do you know that those populations have the same rights - with some adaptations to the local habits sometimes - as people living in mainlands ?
      4/ Do apply the same stupid way of thinking to the next territories : Hawaï ? It was a Polynesian island. Ulster ? It is Irish. Sicily ? It was independant. Long Island ? It was Dutch. And can you explain differences with your definition of a colony in each case ?
      Let's take the example of a fully integrated territory : French Guyana. It has exactly the same status as Paris : a French département. Citizens in Guyana has the exact same rights and duties as Parisians. Hence, explain us what makes French Guyana less French than Paris, or Corsica, or Brittany, or Normandy ??? Absolutely nothing ! For a pretty simple reason : French Guyana does not BELONG to France => it IS France.
      Your misconception comes from your definition of a "native population". It is based on ethnicity, and how it should be extended to an independant political entity. With the same logic, you could call a Turkish neigborhood in Munich as a Turkish colony. This definition is utterly outdated.
      A modern state is not based on ethnicity. It is based on freely accepted citizenship.

  • @nlbergsma
    @nlbergsma Před rokem

    You went quite fast, and I may have missed it but I think you did not mention 2 islands off the Quebec coast: Saint Pierre and Miquelon that are still French. As for the Dutch islands of Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire they are off the coat of Venezuela. Venezuela's claim on the islands is dormant but it may be activated if the islands become fuly independent.

  • @firstcynic92
    @firstcynic92 Před 2 lety +2

    2:45. Without looking at the UN document in question, I can only speculate, but here goes.
    1) Can the territory elect its own government and make its own laws.
    2) If someone from that territory moves to the home country, are they full citizens.
    I think the second one is more likely as would be why only American Samoa is on your map and not Puerto Rico or Guam. But then... why was US Virgin Islands listed? If they move to the USA they are full citizens and can vote for president.

  • @nert-13
    @nert-13 Před 2 lety +11

    Greenland consents to the current situation with Denmark by referendum, so have full government control.

    • @cassianoneto1553
      @cassianoneto1553 Před 2 lety

      And how does Greenland consenting make it not a colony?

    • @nert-13
      @nert-13 Před 2 lety +7

      @@cassianoneto1553 Because by a) being nominally self governing for all non international affairs, and b) actively lobbying Denmark to keep the current arrangement, they are the ones in control of the situation

    • @cassianoneto1553
      @cassianoneto1553 Před 2 lety

      @@nert-13 I agree it shouldn’t be in the “non self governing” list, but it is still a colony, in any sense of the word.

    • @AnnaKaunitz
      @AnnaKaunitz Před 2 lety +7

      @@cassianoneto1553 Nah they are an autonomous region with its own parliament, own government and the people of Greenland decide if they want full sovereignty or not. In 1985 the people voted to leave the (now) EU.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 2 lety +1

      Do you think they'll ever want to become their own fully independent country?

  • @johnb.rodriguez7558
    @johnb.rodriguez7558 Před 2 lety +3

    The Canary islands were actually inhabited by the Guanches people when the spanish arrived (btw i like your videos!)

  • @CopenhagenLion
    @CopenhagenLion Před 9 měsíci +2

    The reason that Greenland and Faroe Islands are not on the list of Non-self-governing territories probably is that they are in fact self-governing. They each have their own parliament and 2 members each of the Danish parliament

  • @LiLian-vd4ki
    @LiLian-vd4ki Před 9 měsíci

    Why they are not the country with the more colony in your video ? Great britain or england ?

  • @friedr2766
    @friedr2766 Před 2 lety +4

    I like how French Guinea is overseas (understandably) but Alaska and hawaii aren't, although all 3 of them vote in their national elections. And all 3 of them were colonised at some point, one by France, the other by the UK then an illegal occupation and colonisation by the US and the last by Russia and sold to the US.

    • @gontrandjojo9747
      @gontrandjojo9747 Před 9 měsíci

      I think it's because Hawai and Alaska are in the same continent (can be discussed for Hawai).

  • @cerjmedia
    @cerjmedia Před 2 lety +11

    2:51 The British Virgin Islands is merely an overseas territory belonging under British rule but has quite a bit of self governance
    French Guiana is a region of France, and has the same legal status as all the other regions in Europe. (with small differences here and there obviously)
    It's like saying "why is American Samoa considered a territory but not Hawaii". I don't think anyone would agree that Hawaii in it's current form counts as a "Territory" or "Colony" of the United States.
    As far as Greenland though? Yeah I don't why. It is by definition called an Autonomous Territory

    • @cerjmedia
      @cerjmedia Před 2 lety +5

      @@fgsaramago Whether or not the primary population is Native or from Settlers is completely irrelevant, and has nothing to do with determining whether or not it can be considered a colony. Proof: The 13 Colonies (the former United States before independence) were all considered colonies, as it's literally in the name, and yet most of the population were settlers from Europe, and cared very little about the Natives (rather infamously so). Same with Australia, same with Canada, Same with Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. Same with parts of South Africa. These are all colonies whose primary population were immigrants/settlers. Furthermore, the definition of colony: "a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country." mentions nothing about the native population or ethnicity. So no, I'm not tying to murky the definition of a colony, you are.

    • @cerjmedia
      @cerjmedia Před 2 lety

      @@fgsaramago add back the other half of the equation? I don't even know what that means. You mean definition?

    • @JohnSmith-sl2qc
      @JohnSmith-sl2qc Před 2 lety

      @@fgsaramago Wtg

    • @JohnSmith-sl2qc
      @JohnSmith-sl2qc Před 2 lety

      @@fgsaramago wtf

  • @PaoloGiovanni
    @PaoloGiovanni Před 8 měsíci

    I enjoyed your video.
    One thing about the Faroe islands is that they were originally inhabited by Celtic Britons but they were killed off and pushed out of the island by the Scandinavians.

  • @paolovd
    @paolovd Před 2 lety +1

    I think I understand why Greenland isn’t on the UN list it’s because since Greenland is technically self governing it doesn’t fall under “places where native people have yet to gain full autonomy*” but Greenland is still part of the danish realm, it would be like including all of the British Commonwealth and a modern day “colonies”

  • @BendyDH
    @BendyDH Před rokem +4

    I find French Guiana to be one of the most interesting cases with it being literaly a part of France and therefore a “part of Europe” despite being in South America.
    I hope Puerto Rico becomes a state someday, the people of Puerto Rico really deserve it after decades of half assed US support and lack of real representation. The hurricane response over the past several years especially for Irma, Maria, and more recently Fiona really show how they need more support during disasters like actual US states like Florida, Louisiana, and Texas get.

    • @TheoHockeyton
      @TheoHockeyton Před 9 měsíci

      France is not just a European country. It is European, American, African and Oceanian. Although our dominant culture is European (incl. many different European cultures), we also have significant Arab, Chinese, African, Creole, Native American, Melanesian and Polynesian cultures within the country.

    • @ketchup901
      @ketchup901 Před 7 měsíci

      French Guiana is not part of Europe. It's part of the EU however.

  • @DitDotDan
    @DitDotDan Před 2 lety +3

    The Oxford English Dictionary defines a colony as "a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country"; if we are going by this, we could include many, many more countries, including Russia (Chechnya, Crimea, Kaliningrad etc.), China (Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet, Xinjiang etc.), Indonesia (West Papua), Turkey (Northern Cyprus), Japan (Ryukyu Islands, Nanpō Islands, Minami-Tori-shima etc.), Finland (Åland), Ecuador (Galápagos Islands), Chile (Rapa Nui etc.), Colombia (San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina), Venezuela (Federal Dependencies of Venezuela) etc.

    • @un_quidam_zonant
      @un_quidam_zonant Před 2 lety

      You could have look up what an 'exclave' is though

    • @billcipherproductions1789
      @billcipherproductions1789 Před 2 lety

      @@fgsaramago It's the most important dictionary for the English language.

    • @billcipherproductions1789
      @billcipherproductions1789 Před 2 lety

      @@fgsaramago They are legally recognized as so diplomatically. If you don't believe me, search up the British Empire you'll see no end date on the info card.

    • @billcipherproductions1789
      @billcipherproductions1789 Před 2 lety

      @@fgsaramago Though, by land it did end in 1997, though there was no formal ending. For example, if you search up French Colonial Empire, it says it was disestablished in 1980 but there is nothing like that for the British Empire, So it's complicated.

    • @billcipherproductions1789
      @billcipherproductions1789 Před 2 lety

      @@fgsaramago First of all, they are not laughing stocks (I'm German by the way) and yes, they could be insane sometimes (Brexit), but overall, they know what they are doing. Also, it's a Government thing, not a people thing. It's kind of like how Japan has an Imperial Government even though they don't have the size of land to call them an Empire.

  • @rochewalkerpetersen4427

    Hello from South Africa!
    I like to think of the Prince Edward Islands (Prince Edward Island and Marion) are colonies of South Africa. Constitutionally speaking they are 'part of Cape Town' but the are ±1800km from the nearest landfall. It was annexed in 1947 and is a meteorological base.

  • @acerimmer8547
    @acerimmer8547 Před 7 dny

    i love that the people in the intro say WAIT THIS EXISTS THEN ITS MINE NOW

  • @nert-13
    @nert-13 Před 2 lety +34

    French Guiana is a full department of France, like Hawai'i is for USA, a full state

    • @kevinbertet3220
      @kevinbertet3220 Před 2 lety +13

      @@elnoideelsencarrecs8528 Just educate yourself on the topic a bit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_French_Guianan_status_referendum

    • @kevinbertet3220
      @kevinbertet3220 Před 2 lety +11

      @@elnoideelsencarrecs8528 Then, it appears that you are either blind or cannot read. Believe whatever you want if that makes you feel better about your own judgements.

    • @nert-13
      @nert-13 Před 2 lety

      @@kevinbertet3220 I agree

    • @Luca-nu2zg
      @Luca-nu2zg Před 2 lety +8

      @@elnoideelsencarrecs8528 What is exactly the problem? The people or French Guiana democratically choose to be part of France

    • @asherl5902
      @asherl5902 Před 2 lety +1

      @@elnoideelsencarrecs8528 Like, France has just forbidden now some schools to give bilingual education in regional languages for the children whose families asked for it in mainland France, let alone imagine how it is for the overseas departments with a greatly different culture that are treated exactly the same mainland France is... (Even if people there has decided to be governed like that just to don't to become very poor, unstable and isolated countries like their independent neighbours)

  • @phantomgt.
    @phantomgt. Před 2 lety +5

    2:25 that is not french guyana, i think

    • @maellatchimy2180
      @maellatchimy2180 Před 2 lety

      Oui c’est un département où état si tu habite au état unis

  • @timvlaar
    @timvlaar Před 2 lety

    Before 2010 the 6 islands that the Netherlands still holds sovereignty over were collectively known as the Netherlands Antilles and was constituent country within the kingdom of the Netherlands. In 2010 all 6 islands got to vote for their futures. Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten voted to be individual constituent countries within the kingdom of the Netherlands and Saba, St. Eustasius and Bonaire voted for special municipal status. That is why it is like that now.

  • @KarlDeux
    @KarlDeux Před rokem +2

    What do you say between New Caledonia and St Bart?
    I am French and rather aware about geography, but I could not recognize the name of the said French territory then.
    What about the Reunion (people there), the Kerguelens and Clipperton? For I mean 11 territories sounds few compared to reality.
    And also, you forgot the nowadays major colonial countries: Russia, China and Indonesia.
    And Brazil so far.

  • @Tedris4
    @Tedris4 Před 2 lety +7

    New Caledonia's referendum is leaving out the context that the majority indigenous regions overwhelmingly voted for independence whereas majority settler populations voted against.
    This is kind of a colonial gentrification.
    Can't vote for independence if you send tons who will vote against it.

    • @Temudhun
      @Temudhun Před 2 lety +1

      It also misses the fact that the referendum was held 18 years after being allowed, so yeah the government had plenty of time to operate this colonial gentrification. I've also heard that the access to polling places was way harder in areas mainly inhabited by indigenous people than in those inhabited by people from the mainland, a little bit like predominently black neighborhoods in the US.

    • @bluesupremacist3085
      @bluesupremacist3085 Před 2 lety

      @Boubouh in 18 years there was no massive immigration to new Caledonia so no planned gentrification in those 18 years, and yeah it is harder to have access to polling places cuz obviously it's easier in cities to vote than in the middle of nowhere...

    • @mxmlnlcdcdffmnt2232
      @mxmlnlcdcdffmnt2232 Před 2 lety +2

      So just to clarify, many referedum have been held with many people coming from france being forbide to vote

    • @theazertoto6981
      @theazertoto6981 Před 2 lety +1

      Absolutely no:
      Article 218 of Law n°99-209 of 19 March 1999 still in force:
      Voters registered on the electoral roll on the date of the consultation and who meet one of the following conditions shall be admitted to participate in the consultation
      (a) Have been admitted to participate in the consultation of 8 November 1998;
      (b) Are not registered on the electoral roll for the 8 November 1998 consultation, but nevertheless fulfil the residence requirement for being an elector at that consultation;
      (c) If they could not be entered on the list of electors for the 8 November 1998 referendum because they did not meet the residence requirement, they must prove that their absence was due to family, professional or medical reasons;
      (d) Have had customary civil status or, having been born in New Caledonia, have had the centre of their material and moral interests there;
      (e) Have had one of their parents born in New Caledonia and have had the centre of their material and moral interests there
      (f) Be able to prove twenty years of continuous residence in New Caledonia on the date of the consultation and by 31 December 2014 at the latest;
      (g) Be born before 1 January 1989 and have been domiciled in New Caledonia from 1988 to 1998
      (h) Be born on or after 1 January 1989 and have reached the age of majority by the date of the consultation and have had a parent who met the conditions for participation in the consultation of 8 November 1998.
      Periods spent outside New Caledonia to perform national service, to follow studies or training or for family, professional or medical reasons do not, for persons who were previously domiciled there, interrupt the period taken into consideration to assess the condition of domicile.

    • @gordonchild273
      @gordonchild273 Před rokem

      They still French deal with it

  • @7TPdwCzolgu
    @7TPdwCzolgu Před 2 lety +6

    Fun fact: Coral Sea Islands declared independence in 2004 as a Gay and Lesbian Kingdom but they were never recognised

  • @listen1st267
    @listen1st267 Před 2 lety +1

    Puerto Rico can become a state if they really want to. Before 2020, the last two referendums ending with them choosing to not move forward with a bid for statehood. Now it sounds like they did pass that hurdle. However, they also need to prove that they are financially independent which they haven't been able to do since they can't balance out their debts (in no small part due to speculative Wall Streeters). In the end, the territory which actually has really solid grounds for statehood is Guam. Right now it's budget has been balanced and there seems to be growing interest in applying for statehood

  • @davidwiderberghowden3088

    Greenland was according to sources uninhabited, at the time when the Norwegian vikings from Iceland settled there. It was together with Faroese and Iceland under Norwegian rule until the union with Denmark, which in 1814 ended with Greenland, Faroese and Iceland becoming part of Denmark. Svalbard is a special case, as the norwegian inhabitants are required to have a tie to the counties on the mainland, and both birth and funerals are required to not happen there. Jan Mayen has no perminant inhabitants, but scientists do have a station there.

  • @robertabella1806
    @robertabella1806 Před 2 lety +33

    West Papua is a colony of Indonesia. not that the UN will ever recognize this since apparently only the West can be colonizers

    • @montazza08
      @montazza08 Před 2 lety

      Good point. This must also include the island of Borneo which is shared by Malaysia, isn’t it? I wonder how the local Austronesian people feel about still being colonised like this? No media attention given!

    • @johanharris2806
      @johanharris2806 Před 2 lety +2

      @@montazza08 I don't know if this makes any difference but the people on the Malaysian part of Borneo chose to be in Malaysia while West Papuan were never asked if they were or wished to be part of Indonesia - and they still don't.

    • @troy5094
      @troy5094 Před rokem

      @@montazza08 The Malay people are also Austronesian

    • @jokerofmorocco
      @jokerofmorocco Před rokem

      @@montazza08 There isn't any strong separatist movements in Indonesian Borneo however this is not the case for West Papua in which they don't want to be part of Indonesia and are brutally suppressed because of it

    • @trk1b28varianrhesa4
      @trk1b28varianrhesa4 Před rokem

      @@montazza08 i am Indonesian who live in East Borneo 18 years, and i am happy enought not joining malaysia

  • @karnickel-s33d16
    @karnickel-s33d16 Před 2 lety +20

    Unfortunately there is no "correct" definition for what constitutes a colony. I found this video interesting anyway. As a citizen of the USA, I don't have a problem with integrating our over seas territories as states.

    • @dylanshaffer2184
      @dylanshaffer2184 Před 2 lety

      Let’s make each territory a state

    • @logankraft8711
      @logankraft8711 Před 2 lety

      I wanna see the us virgin island's and porta rico combined into the " us Caribbean islands state" and see Hawaii reorganized into the " us Pacific islands state. " that reorganization adding guam, american Sonoma, and the other small populated islands in the Pacific that are ours together

    • @Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma
      @Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma Před 2 lety +1

      @@logankraft8711 I never understood why they never just integrated the USVI into Florida.

    • @dylanshaffer2184
      @dylanshaffer2184 Před 2 lety +2

      @@fgsaramago so by definition Alaska and Hawaii are colonies, and therefore they will remain a colony until the union dissolved.

    • @dylanshaffer2184
      @dylanshaffer2184 Před 2 lety +2

      @@logankraft8711 first Puerto Rico and the USVI wouldn’t want to combine as they have two separate cultures, and policies. While there is a possibility of combining Guam and the CNMI into one state of the union or one territory of the United States, it is unlikely due to differences of the past but still can happen. American SAMOA, on the other hand is in a completely different part of the Pacific and wouldn’t fit well as one state combined with Guam and the CNMI, but would rather be their own state of the union. The USA could possibly annex Samoa and join it with American Samoa and be a slightly larger state

  • @danielsykes7558
    @danielsykes7558 Před 2 lety +1

    3:00 Departments of France have representation in the French parliament, and French Guyana also has a greater degree of autonomy than colonies of the UK have, for example.
    Other than Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, the colonies comprising the United Kingdom do not have representation in the UK parliament.
    Greenland is self governing, but is also allowed to elect two representatives to the Danish Parliament, similar to French Guyana with France.
    This is also one reason Hawaii is not on that list, although Hawaii is not as autonomous as the other two.

    • @danielsykes7558
      @danielsykes7558 Před 2 lety

      The canaries did have a native people, the Guanchez, who were tragically entirely wiped out.

    • @danielsykes7558
      @danielsykes7558 Před 2 lety

      Also, the Spanish presence in those cities in Northern Africa are autonomous cities who had a Spanish presence from before the establishment of Morocco. There is no "back to Morocco". It predates "European colonialism", like reconquista times. Gibraltar on the other hand .......

    • @danielsykes7558
      @danielsykes7558 Před 2 lety +1

      Greenland ..... Greenland was abandoned by its original Scandinavian settlers. The Inuit came from North America next, and then it was colonized by the Danes. More complexity.

    • @natenae8635
      @natenae8635 Před 2 lety

      Voting in the uk parliament isn’t a form of autonomy. It’s a form of centralization. Uk territories only depend on the Uk for Foreign Affairs and Defense hence I doubt French Guiana is more autonomous

    • @Wellshem
      @Wellshem Před 2 lety +1

      @@natenae8635 French Guiana work EXACTLY the same has every french departement, French Guiana is as autonomous as Occitania for example. French Guiana isn't considered as foreign at all. Especially now in the age of information. Calling someone in Paris isn't different whether you are from Marseille, Toulouse or Cayenne.

  • @joefei707
    @joefei707 Před rokem

    Thankyou from Puerto Rico many Americans don't understand this

  • @lavo-ld4wm
    @lavo-ld4wm Před rokem +5

    0:43 not only the US, all countries of the Americas were also established by people with European descent, who also nowadays pretend to be original natives… despite having erased the true original populations

    • @toomanyopinions8353
      @toomanyopinions8353 Před rokem +1

      "Erased" is complicated as many Latin American countries still have a majority indigenous population

    • @lavo-ld4wm
      @lavo-ld4wm Před rokem

      That's a good point! I surely was thinking of Uruguay on that matter, as an Uruguayan colleague once told me, there are no original natives left, since 1895.

  • @henryofwinchesterkingofeng5377

    America: Okay, Britain - we've got a policy on de-colonization for you
    Britain: What about your colonies?
    America: About that-

    • @BiasN
      @BiasN Před 2 lety +10

      Usa: do as i say not as i do
      Also nice pfp

    • @henryofwinchesterkingofeng5377
      @henryofwinchesterkingofeng5377 Před 2 lety +3

      @@BiasN Cheers or, vielen dank!

    • @seanbrummfield448
      @seanbrummfield448 Před 2 lety +7

      It would be kinda hard to let Puerto Rico go. A lot of American PRs would get upset. They have family, ties and many of them love to visit or go back home time to time.

    • @henryofwinchesterkingofeng5377
      @henryofwinchesterkingofeng5377 Před 2 lety +6

      @@seanbrummfield448 Canada and Australia in a way are like that to the UK

    • @GlaciaDay
      @GlaciaDay Před 2 lety +8

      @@seanbrummfield448 they are not voting for independence, they are voting for Puerto Rico to recognized as a state of the US.

  • @stargazer-elite
    @stargazer-elite Před 9 měsíci +1

    1:41 “the Phoenicians made a colony so big it makes colonies” - history of the entire world I guess by bill wurts

  • @fernandosoares8336
    @fernandosoares8336 Před 2 lety

    Você faz os seus próprios desenhos?

  • @bluechicken9924
    @bluechicken9924 Před 2 lety +5

    I really want someone to make a permanent settlement in Antarctica that would be cool

    • @JayinBuffalo
      @JayinBuffalo Před 2 lety +2

      VERY cool indeed 🥶

    • @bluechicken9924
      @bluechicken9924 Před 2 lety

      @@JayinBuffalo lol

    • @onejuan3340
      @onejuan3340 Před 2 lety

      My country (Chile) has a permanent settlement in Antarctica, it's called "Villa Las Estrellas", look it up.

    • @bluechicken9924
      @bluechicken9924 Před 2 lety

      O. M. G. CHILE DID IT LEZ GO!!! 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇱

  • @lars-akesvensk9704
    @lars-akesvensk9704 Před 2 lety +7

    I think Hokkaido is interesting. It was colonized by Japan in 1869 and incorporated as part of Japan. Of course it is a separate island but adjacent to Honshu which is the main Japanese island. Hokkaido was previously ruled by the Ainu people. Another example is Hawaii which was more or less stolen by USA in the 1800s. Previously it was a kingdom.

    • @vqlcano1698
      @vqlcano1698 Před 2 lety +5

      I think the reason those aren't considered colonies today is because they're fully integrated parts of their respective countries. I don't know why French Guiana is thin this video though, since it's also a fully integrated part of France.

  • @larspeterthomsen9798
    @larspeterthomsen9798 Před rokem

    Wait, at 2:23 you colored Guyana (former Dutch & British col.) instead of French Guiana.

  • @riitd1710
    @riitd1710 Před rokem +1

    In the 60's there was a group of women in Mayotte called "Les Chatouilleuses", "The Ticklers", and they wanted the isle of Mayotte to remain part of France because they feared that Comoros independantists would remove some of their rights granted under french control.

  • @jmannysantiago
    @jmannysantiago Před 2 lety +3

    Saying that Puerto Ricans have voted for statehood is gross misunderstanding of these referendums. Historically, PR has had exactly ONE status referendum authorized by the US Congress, and that’s the one where the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (or literally translated, the “Free Associated State of PR) was created. Since then, the first three referenda, none of which was authorized by the US Congress, the Commonwealth, NOT statehood, won the vote. Then the pro-statehood party has held some referenda where either they did not allow for independence to be on the ballot, or they “defined” what the options were without consulting the parties that support those options, or they have misrepresented the votes. For instance, a referendum that the pro-statehood party said was a clear vote for statehood, was so because EVERY PARTY boycotted it. So of course, in only pro-statehood folk voted, I guess you can expect that result. (The number of participants was also dismally small, so you’ve made an assumption that 10% or so who voted are the voice of the 90% of people who boycotted.) Then there’s the little inconvenience of each one of these processes not being authorized by the Congress. So, until the Congress offers and authorizes a referendum on status, and until ALL options are presented to the people of my country, you can still call Puerto Rico a colony and for the love of all that is good, STOP saying that “Puerto Ricans have asked for statehood.” (Will it become a state, though? Yes, but not because Puerto Ricans have asked. Right now the US is systematically creating the circumstances to unilaterally take control. For instance, the Commonwealth government does not have control over its finances and has to get permission from the Congressionally appointed Fiscal Control Board. The pro-statehood party has been selling public property to US based businesses. The government is also promoting the selling of private property to US investors and the whole coast is being bought by US Americans who are displacing the locals. US investors get tax cuts that local business folk and entrepreneurs don’t have access to, etc. So, if you want to know what the future of PR will be related to statehood, look at the history of Hawai’i and there it is: US settlers replacing native population and overtaking the economic and political systems until they unilaterally ask for statehood while the native population is kept under the master’s booth. Unfortunately, enough Puerto Ricans have bought into the lies of statehood that they will cheer this when it happens.)

    • @dylanshaffer2184
      @dylanshaffer2184 Před 2 lety +1

      So in other words, if a binding referendum happens soon, PR will become the next state of the union. Then also please tell me why don’t more people vote?? Why don’t they just vote for what they choose instead of boycotting? If the people vote for statehood it will happen, and if the residents vote for independence, then it will happen but both sides have consequences

    • @sandunguinho18
      @sandunguinho18 Před 2 lety

      I agree 100%.