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A small colony doesn't count?
by wolvoleo 8mo ago
A small colony doesn't count?
- stackghost 8mo agoThey're not colonies. An overseas territory is not the same thing as a colony.
- __d 8mo agoThe people living there might struggle to identify the difference?
- loeg 8mo agoAre you calling them stupid?
- imtringued 8mo agoMauritius and La Réunion are doing much better than say Madagascar.
- nephihaha 8mo agoYou can rebrand something as a territory or a dependency (or a DOM-TOM in the French case) but they're still the same. Even during the height of colonialism many of these places had some self-government and even democracy (Hong Kong). That was partly a practical consideration as many of them were so far away they had to run themselves to some extent. But not all of Britain's colonies are far away.
- reverius42 8mo agoI think it was in reply to the "with millions of people in them" comment.