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- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@midwest.social
- geopolitics@lemmy.run
It seems like the French colony is pissed as France is trying to allow French citizens who have lived there 10 years voting rights. Honestly, kinda seems justified, but dont know the whole situation.
Agreed. If you’ve lived somewhere ten years why should you be denied a vote? Frankly I would allow all residents to vote even when they first arrive but I’m sure this would be even more controversial.
Seems like a strange thing to riot over—is this being perceived in a lens of colonialism?
I think the context here is that New Caledonia wants to be an independent country, and has had several referendums to try and do so electorally. France is doing everything in their power to block New Caledonian independence, using both politics and violence against natives. By granting voting rights to French immigrants, it will increase France’s apparent political support on the islands and make it harder for them to achieve independence, ensuring France can continue to plunder the islands.
I see. Well I definitely support New Caledonia’s right to self-determination but I don’t think fighting over disenfranchising people is going to be the best way to achieve that.
I’m of the opinion generally that settler colonialism should be avoided, since every previous settler colonial project has been a complete disaster, and especially for the natives (see: the Americas, Palestine, South Africa, Algeria, Australia and New Zealand). The population of Europeans in New Caledonia was last recorded declining both in percentage and absolute values, while natives have been growing. France could discourage or ban new settlers, grant current settlers full rights, and it’s possible in a few decades the European population may naturally decline to where it’s not significant. Then again who am I to set such a long timetable.
I think you got it backwards and you are disagreeing.
Yeah you might be right. Oh well.
France in general doesn’t get as much hate as it should. They’re about as bad as the US with all the economic colonialism they still practice
Wow. And I’ve been under the impression that this sort of extremely overt, blatant Western colonialism had been basically phased out in the decades after World War II.
Same here, but apparently this isn’t even an isolated example:
https://youtu.be/fiD24uEvY1U?si=kqH-ixnhSvc4S_HG
(Video about their colonialism and exploitative monetary policy in the Saheel / Africa).
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