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> There's people who lived there all their life and can't vote because It doesn't matter how long a colonizer has lived in some place where he is living as a s
by zrn900 2y ago
> There's people who lived there all their life and can't vote because
It doesn't matter how long a colonizer has lived in some place where he is living as a settler-colonist.
> a bunch of racists
The locals have no obligation to be non-discriminative to those who are colonizing their land. Even proposing this sound utterly absurd.
> backward ethnic laws
The colonizing French are not a local ethnicity. They have no right to the place they are colonizing. They are colonizing foreigners there. Full stop.
- realusername 2y agoThere's no colony, NC is a full part of France with the same rights as everywhere else. Except for the independentist areas of course where the independentist fought to create apartheid laws.
- zrn900 2y ago> There's no colony, NC is a full part of France with the same rights as everywhere else Yeaaah. With the same level of wealth/income for the locals of New Caledonia as the average French has in France, right... Of course not. The locals are much poorer, they can only move to France as low cost labour if they can afford it and find a job. Whereas the French can easily go there and establish themselves as the ruling elite like they are doing. These are asymmetrical relationships that implement the colonial setup through economic means.
- realusername 2y agoNC isn't that bad compared to its peers, the territory is highly subsidised by France and had lower taxes as well to help development. The locals are all French anyways, there's no citizenship. But that's true that there's some asymmetrical setups, the nickel mines would have died 20 years ago if it wasn't financed to keep the independentist happy. Not sure how long the French state is going to keep pouring money into that hole though.