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Post by Prince Myshkin on Dec 12, 2021 16:48:37 GMT
Yeah, because it's not part of France. I bet you think Canada is overseas from the US. No, Canada is our 51st state. |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Dec 12, 2021 17:55:35 GMT
I will say one thing in France's defense though.
Unlike the British Empire, they did not cave in and give away all their colonies to despotic wannabe dictators and their "independence" movements.
France held on to some great territory - French Polynesia, New Caledonia, French Guiana, islands in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean.
The Brits here could have learned a thing or two from the French.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 13, 2021 8:57:29 GMT
I will say one thing in France's defense though.
Unlike the British Empire, they did not cave in and give away all their colonies to despotic wannabe dictators and their "independence" movements.
France held on to some great territory - French Polynesia, New Caledonia, French Guiana, islands in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean.
The Brits here could have learned a thing or two from the French.
Other way round - what Britain did (turning the empire into the voluntary commonwealth) was the right thing to do and clinging to colonialism was not. |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Dec 13, 2021 18:30:15 GMT
I will say one thing in France's defense though.
Unlike the British Empire, they did not cave in and give away all their colonies to despotic wannabe dictators and their "independence" movements.
France held on to some great territory - French Polynesia, New Caledonia, French Guiana, islands in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean.
The Brits here could have learned a thing or two from the French.
Other way round - what Britain did (turning the empire into the voluntary commonwealth) was the right thing to do and clinging to colonialism was not. Well my point being that some of the worst African dictators like Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Idi Amin in Uganda ruled former British colonies. Perhaps they would have been better off as part of the British Empire. (I realize that was not practical though).
Why no bloody revolutionary movements in Tahiti and New Caledonia against France?
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 14, 2021 0:07:38 GMT
Other way round - what Britain did (turning the empire into the voluntary commonwealth) was the right thing to do and clinging to colonialism was not. Well my point being that some of the worst African dictators like Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Idi Amin in Uganda ruled former British colonies. Perhaps they would have been better off as part of the British Empire. (I realize that was not practical though).
Why no bloody revolutionary movements in Tahiti and New Caledonia against France?
They're too chilled having mai-tais on the beach. |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Dec 14, 2021 3:14:08 GMT
Well my point being that some of the worst African dictators like Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Idi Amin in Uganda ruled former British colonies. Perhaps they would have been better off as part of the British Empire. (I realize that was not practical though).
Why no bloody revolutionary movements in Tahiti and New Caledonia against France?
They're too chilled having mai-tais on the beach. Good answer. We all know that's exactly why.
I'm trying to think of a former British colony in the South Pacific besides New Zealand.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 14, 2021 8:52:24 GMT
They're too chilled having mai-tais on the beach. Good answer. We all know that's exactly why.
I'm trying to think of a former British colony in the South Pacific besides New Zealand.
Yeah I can't think of any either. |
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