Arrives, destroys your outpost, leaves, refuses to elaborate further - Portuguese Gigachads.

@christiancolossus5165

Жыл бұрын

Actually, I believe it was the Portuguese Terachads.

@Otochiro1

Жыл бұрын

@@christiancolossus5165 The Portugachads

@christiancolossus5165

Жыл бұрын

@@Otochiro1 lol....That's their brothers.

@radomirratkovic9014

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting place..." How tasteful was my little Frenchman"

@radomirratkovic9014

Жыл бұрын

" Papillon"

Greetings from French Guiana ! 🇬🇫 🇫🇷 God, the tone used in this video makes it sound like hell over here...when it's really not. Yes, we have our share of struggles. But to be fair, we boast both the highest GDP per capita in South America and the lowest crime rate in the region. And very few people are actually in favor of independance although we are seeking more autonomy from the mainland. Cheers !

@azahel542

Жыл бұрын

I work in a wholesale shoe company near Paris and we have some great clients from French Guiana. I hope you keep doing well!

@Potato0770

Жыл бұрын

So are you french or french guyanian

@thibault973

Жыл бұрын

@@Potato0770 Both. That would like asking if I'm American or Texan...

@Potato0770

Жыл бұрын

@@thibault973 i mean they have the france nationality France passport and other stuff

@klampassn9987

Жыл бұрын

Bonjour bro

Oddly enough - France's longest border with any country is in fact there - in Guyana, with Brazil

@Patoecapoeira

Жыл бұрын

Also the place of Europe’s largest national park

@jakemcgowan7928

Жыл бұрын

@@Patoecapoeira The biggest national park of an EU member state, not really Europe's though, the same way Hawaii isnt North America's most isolated island chain.

@marlene97280

Жыл бұрын

@@Patoecapoeira thats no Europe. But South america

@ednorton47

Жыл бұрын

France needs to build a Maginot-type defensive barrier there in case Brazil gets aggressive again.

@ivanpetro8464

Жыл бұрын

I heard that they are building a bridge between Brazil and "France". Can you imagine?

Despite the big territory (if compared to metropolitan France) French Guyana has only about 300 000 people. That's less than most of the other overseas departments of France like Réunion, Guadeloupe or Martinique

@oppionatedindividual8256

Жыл бұрын

Because it’s rainforest.

@N3odym3

Жыл бұрын

Hard to live there. Too much humidity

@sugeknightiswatchingyou

Жыл бұрын

Legend says the portuguese are still attacking french guyana

@gtPacheko

Жыл бұрын

@@sugeknightiswatchingyou not the Portuguese, but the Brazilians had a short war with France because of French Guyana - and this was in modern times.

@marlene97280

Жыл бұрын

But that grow that will 1 million on 2060, and almost half will diseapear in Martinique and Guadeloupe

France has territory in North America too. Saint-Pierre and Miqueleon near Newfoundland.

@sugeknightiswatchingyou

Жыл бұрын

We could argue that countries like France with French Guyana or Reunion, the UK with Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, Portugal with Madeira and Azores, Netherlands with Curaçau and Aruba, Denmark with Greenland and the Faroe Islands and Spain with Ceuta and Canary Islands are still practicing colonialism

@omegawonton8749

Жыл бұрын

@@sugeknightiswatchingyou many of the current overseas territories have had independence referendums, and the people either dont want independence, or are too small to be able to function as an independent nation

@sunnyjim1355

Жыл бұрын

@@sugeknightiswatchingyou Well as far as the UK is concerned, you are completely wrong. Neither Bermuda or the Cayman Islands had (or ever has found to have had) any indigenous populations, ever... so they are not 'colonies' but British 'settlements'. That's why they are British Overseas Territories, and not Commonwealth countries.

@shauncameron8390

Жыл бұрын

@@omegawonton8749 Pretty much.

@philipcoriolis6614

Жыл бұрын

@@sugeknightiswatchingyou When were the Americas decolonized ? Still quite a lot of Whites there if i am not mistaken...

As far as I know, people of French Guiana have full French citizenship, they vote in French elections, so it's not a real colony today. They even use the Euro as currency.

@dennis12dec

Жыл бұрын

They also have elected representatives in the Senate and the National Assembly in Paris.

@sterlingferguson1704

Жыл бұрын

The people in Guiana voted to remain a part of France just like Alaska voted to be part of the US.

@sterlingferguson1704

Жыл бұрын

@@ploska1855 There were people in Alaska and they weren't asked about this.

@nativepinoyviands

Жыл бұрын

Do not go to independence because a lot of corrupt and greedy people making your country worst it is very good to tie as a french national ...dont be like us in Phillipines were so many greed and corrupt people who pursue independence in U.S.A. now we are bullying by the Chinese if the independence didnt pursue we are U.S.A Nationals with U.S.A dollar as currency and one of the richest economy in Asia because the U.S.A will gave us a fund for Economy and Military....shit that greedy patriot on commonwealth era they think they are intelligent but they are not futurist.

@chozer1

Жыл бұрын

@Ploska and Crimea was gifted to Ukraine doesn't mean they. Have any claim to it anymore

Let's be clear about French Guiana. This is the place which had a savage penal colony on an island off its coast called Devil's Island. The penal colony was depicted in a film called 'Papillion' based on the experiences of a convict called Henri Charriere and shows the harsh penalty of guillotine. French Guiana is also the home of the European Space Agency, a rather more positive site.

@sunnyjim1355

Жыл бұрын

Yes, we all know already.

@ChrisJones-ij3xp

Жыл бұрын

Actually, I think that the penal colony, and in particular Devil's Island, is the ONLY thing most people know about French Guiana.

@henryfitch8710

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisJones-ij3xp I'm sure it is now on the tourist map though I was thinking of Guyana next door as a South American country before choosing to go to Bolivia instead.

@ednorton47

Жыл бұрын

@@henryfitch8710 That is the former British colony.

@nathanseper8738

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisJones-ij3xp It was was where Alfred Dreyfus was unfairly incarcerated.

French Guiana person here 🇬🇫

@OpenCorridor-en3ox

Жыл бұрын

973 RPZ

@koridwaen5878

Жыл бұрын

mais du coup, ça se passe comment là-bas. Content ou pas? je ne sais pas et il y a pas trop de vidéo a ce sujet donc autant demander au 1er intéressé

Gotta love it. Not even 1h out and the first predictable comments arrive. No,French guyana is not a colony, its a full part of France. Inhabitants there hold the same rights and duties as any normal citizen and enjoy the same (waning)privileges. get that "waah yurup bad" shit out.

@LadyZeldaia

Жыл бұрын

it is still a colonial holding, but it is propper part of France too

@stalwartarjuna

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, they're better off being part of France than of Latin American society and politics. I'm sure most people in Latin America would love to have a foot in France as well.

@maximipe

Жыл бұрын

@@stalwartarjuna "most people"? Lol bet you don't know many latin americans

@sergicb1533

Жыл бұрын

lol of course is it a colony. How French, a European nation appears in South America? Was any other culture living there before, or they did like the dutch and took the land out from the sea? You can call it overseas territory or the most fancy name you want: it is what it is. A different topic is that the mix of French and autoctonous population decided to stay in France

@stalwartarjuna

Жыл бұрын

@@maximipe No conozco a nadie que no prefiera irse a vivir a Francia, o cualquier país de Europa, en vez de quedarse en este manicomio con forma de continente. Ni a los políticos les gusta vivir aquí, por eso tienen casas y a sus familias en el extranjero como un _porsiacaso._

Because 70% of locals voted against more autonomy let alone independence in 2010?

@ambergris5705

Жыл бұрын

What are your sources? I don't think such a referendum happened.

@simsportif

Жыл бұрын

@@ambergris5705 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_French_Guianan_status_referendum

@Commonsensical513

Жыл бұрын

@@ambergris5705 Do they not have google or online newspaper in your country?

@ambergris5705

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, that's right! Well it seems that it was such a big deal that I completely forgot about it 😂 thanks for reminding this stupid commenter

@erwannthietart3602

Жыл бұрын

@@ambergris5705 well it certainly SEEMS like its important enough for you to ask for the sources because you doubt something happened, honestly you are the fool in treating someone of "stupid" when he is litteraly just telling you to move your fat fingers off youtube and make a google search like a normal person. Dont take the internet for granted Edit:welp irrelevant misunderstanding then, me dum dum

Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing job

France actually shares the longest land border with BRAZIL

@jetaddicted

Жыл бұрын

That is actually wrong, in spite of being over repeated. France’s longest land border is with (drumrolls): Australia. Yup. Check Adelie land, the French Antarctic territory: wedged in the middle of the Aussie one. Agreed: there’s a treaty that froze (pun intended) all territorial claims over there but: - this treaty is in its final years; -Both Oz and France recognize each other’s territories. That’s a good 6500km of land border for you, maybe actually the longest land border in the world, is it spans both East and West of Adelie land, as compared to other Antarctic territories who usually have not one but two neighbors.

@tiagobaptista3082

Жыл бұрын

@@jetaddicted No

@jojolafrite90

23 күн бұрын

@@tiagobaptista3082 Care to expand on that? I guess not.

@tiagobaptista3082

22 күн бұрын

@@jojolafrite90 What you want to know? Like, Antarctica doesn't belong to any country, so it doesn't make sense to take a territory that doesn't actually exist and use it as a border.

Nice video! I always wondered about this country. Thanks!

I'd love to see a video about St Helena. The British Island where Napoleon was exiled and died. Most of my family is from there, its a beautiful island 🏝

@50shekels

10 ай бұрын

Napoleon thought it was a shithole unfit for a European

The cultural diversity (natives people, descendants of african slaves, hmong from Laos, European expats, Brazilians immigrants and so on) of this "small" département is incredible. It's like if America, Europe, Africa and Asia were condensed in the amazonian jungle.

@fsdeslandes

Жыл бұрын

And as Brazil, French Guiana is extremly racist and segregated. But the difference between those countries is that French Guiana have never had it's independence. Nevertheless, brazilians have always thought as a nation and that's why it is an independent country. But guyanese... it's so complicated (it's a mess!). Why they accept their situation? They have money but they're also very poor (no industries, no urban planning, almost zero agriculture, just a few local jobs, very few social housings, zero development...).They don't think as a nation. If you say someone who comes from a brazilian family is guyanese they'll say this person isn't really guyanese. If he or she represents a three generation Hmong family they'll say the same. It's the same about black-browns or white people born there. They even ignore amerindians as guyanese citzens. Almost every situation is like this: segregation. It's a shame. There are some guyanese who says it is a creole land and that's an insult to every people that have been there for ages. How can they say it's a creole land if amerindians have always been there? Why do they do that? Racism? Historical and cultural colonisation? Yeap, but not just that. Who has some privileges in their society? How local elite is formed? It's like when a land lord gives some power to a bounty hunter who ignores he's also an oppressed person. By the way, who has voted no to French Guiana independence?

@tiagobaptista3082

Жыл бұрын

@@fsdeslandes Brazil is "extremely racist" and segregated? Lol! Don't talk shit, you're probably a racial activist, and looking at your profile I see that you might be Brazilian. There is racism in Brazil, obviously, as well as anywhere in the world. But it's not intense or at the level of racial segregation as it happened in the USA. Well, I mentioned this because I'm Brazilian, but I don't know how it is in French Guiana. Please don't spread misinformation on social media about your own country in order to satisfy your ideological bubble, because that's a shame!

@maiskk6326

Жыл бұрын

Europeans immigrants*

@HueghMungus

11 ай бұрын

@@maiskk6326 Agreed, this has always weirded me out, everyone else is immigrants, however when it is about Europeans or Americans they are called "Expats" and not "immigrants".

@rembrandtvanleidse

8 ай бұрын

Suriname is more diverse

Nicely informative video

Franceses: ¿Puedo tener colonias en Sudamérica? Portugueses: Não

@houssedecouette4056

Жыл бұрын

where is portugal empire ? XD

@fsdeslandes

Жыл бұрын

@@houssedecouette4056 we call it Brazil. Cheers.

@aleajactaest7242

Жыл бұрын

Franceses: Hoy, Francia es el único país del mundo donde el sol nunca se pone. Franceses; Hoy, Francia es el país con el mayor número de husos horarios (13). Franceses: Hoy, Francia tiene el dominio marítimo más grande del mundo. Portugueses: Não... Españoles: No... nuestros 2 países son solo un punto en el mapa mundial... LOL

I'd really love to visit French Guiana sometime. I used to boast as an EU citizen I could probably live there no hassle. Then Brexit happened and my dreams of ease were crushed.

@inspectorvoid

Жыл бұрын

I thought brexit was all about the UK.

@Otochiro1

Жыл бұрын

@@inspectorvoid He is from the UK if I understood well

@prabjotgill7291

Жыл бұрын

France also has 2 territories near Newfoundland, Canada: St. Pierre and Miquelon

@jaredwat8478

Жыл бұрын

@@prabjotgill7291 it still has a fair amount of pacific islands too

@x-a-

Жыл бұрын

VISA shouldn't be a big deal as a UK citizen I think

Great video!

Good job on this one.

To be fair to the people of French Guiana, if the autonomy on the independence of the Philippines were voted on today, the Filipinos would opt to stay with Spain. I'm pretty sure you can say the same for many former colonies.

@naughtiusmaximus3690

Жыл бұрын

Hell, The Netherlands tried to get rid of their former colonies in the Caribbean but they were persistence and in the end an international court(if i'm not mistaken) technically forced the dutch to remain there

@krips22

Жыл бұрын

To Miguel Galang: A referendum on becoming an autonomous overseas territory was held in French Guiana on 10 January 2010. The proposal was rejected by 70% of voters who prefer full integration in the French central state. The turnout was 48%.

@the3zoooz1

Жыл бұрын

I don't think so Spain isn't doing well with its self now

@erwannthietart3602

Жыл бұрын

@@krips22 tbf theres a point where most french people dont give a sh** about voting for their president now less than half even care, if only 48% of the locals came to vote, thats prolly just because they saw both solution as equally terrible or smt

@AMNG1994

Жыл бұрын

@@the3zoooz1 My father is a Spaniard. My mother is Filipino. While I agree that Spain is in a mess right now, I would rather have Spain's government and quality of life than that of the Philippines any day.

I love the video by talking about the history of French Guiana! Im glad that u kinda mentioned the Hmong refugees, who came from Laos, to escape from the Lao communist forces and to find refuge in French Guiana. Keep up the great work on making these videos 💯

Brilliant. I spend a lot of time in Brazil and did not know this.

If they can not sustain themselves what's the benefitt in breaking away from France

@Fourbix

Жыл бұрын

First you are right, secondly the video isn't greatly done and is poor in information, at last autonomy isn't even desired there. Everyone is just fed up with what's happening with the government, and some think loke the corsican or basque, that changing for an indépendant rule will magicaly make the corruption go away when local mafias are thr biggest supporter for independance.

@stalwartarjuna

Жыл бұрын

@@Fourbix In other words, typical South American politics...

@radomirratkovic9014

Жыл бұрын

@@stalwartarjuna not only South American..they are doing that elsewhere ...Big players have their pullens and politicians are never the true represents of the people ..Corruption is everywhere ..What the world needs is benevolent leaders and not the pollies faulees...pollies of career ..people without one day of the working life are running entire countries...

@tnk.2033

Жыл бұрын

They cannot sustain themselves maybe because of france colonizing them for hundreds of years ?

@radomirratkovic9014

Жыл бұрын

@@tnk.2033 I am not so sure about that Bible,brandy and gunpowder story...What was on the sustainable menue in the venue before the " wretched white men" entered the " paradise"😃👍

The video doesn't sufficiently explain what an "overseas department of France" is. It's a part of France just like any other region of European ("Metropolitan") France except that it's in South America. It's not officially a territory, a colony, or a possession but according to the law of France, is as much a part of the country as Paris.

@ommsterlitz1805

Жыл бұрын

It's like the mainland

Please do some more series. Like the one on the ottoman empire!!!!!!

Great to see this video was made. I didn't even know as a person who is interested very much in geography that france shares a long border with Brazil until recently.

Maybe do some videos on small islands nations, there many with rich cultural history and colonialism. Micronesia, Tuvalu, Mauritius, Pitcairn ECT. (Suriname, Bhutan not small islands however)

@crazyh

Жыл бұрын

Pitcairn Islands not a country

@Anonymoose66G

Жыл бұрын

@@crazyh It's a sovereign nation.

To train the Foreign Legion in jungle warfare .

Anglophone world seems fully interested in dismantling France. What can't you understand by referendum voted by people ?

I once ordered a set of beetle specimens from Entimo-source in French Guiana of the worlds largest type, Titanus giganteus 15-16 centimeters. Thank you for those, I donated to a museum collection.

France has in fact territories in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica ! The only territory where it has no foothold remaining is Asia.

@krips22

Жыл бұрын

_"The only territory where it has no foothold remaining is Asia"_ Even though, stricto sensu, France possesses several tiny bits of territory in Jerusalem (domaine national français en Terre sainte) which in Asia. But I guess that's a bit far-fetched :)

@unbonfrancophone1539

Жыл бұрын

@@krips22 the only British territory in Asia is their military bases on Cyprus et c'est pour ça qu'ils ont une présence sur un continent de plus que les français

@francoislechanceux5818

Жыл бұрын

@@unbonfrancophone1539 Mesquin et honteux comme raisonnement.

@unbonfrancophone1539

Жыл бұрын

@@francoislechanceux5818 pardon ?

@francoislechanceux5818

Жыл бұрын

@@unbonfrancophone1539 Tu es fier que nous ayons encore en 2023 des territoires voire des colonies volés ou prisent par la violence brute à d'autres peuples il y a des siecles justement quand ils ne pouvaient se defendre?

The map of the French empire in North America is to small, the territory was bigger.

@sunnyjim1355

Жыл бұрын

Correct... it was about a 1/3 of the present USA.

@paarmenion3635

Жыл бұрын

Not really. It could have been shown a little bit bigger but the territory was such loosly controled that it's hard to define its limits. Was the Labrador peninsula in modern Canada fully French or not? It's hard to say but mostly not since the colony was almost empty with less than 100.000 inhabitants, living on the coast (Lousiana, Acadia) or in Quebec with a few French garrisons here and there in between (around 0,01 inhabitant/km² which is around 100x less than the Sahara desert today). What I mean is that the map is deceiving since New France = a few dots here and there rather than a contiguous territory. That being said, correct me if I'm wrong, but you may be also confusing New France (16th-18th centuries) with French Louisiana (1800-1803)... which was way smaller (1/3 of New France as a contiguous territory)

@shauncameron8390

Жыл бұрын

But it was woefully underpopulated

Nice video

I am loving the hammet sounds

Once whole South America and even the whole continent was to be named Brasilia. Just a german cartographer made the mistake to name Vespucci as the one who discovered the New World so overriding this nice name 😁

We live in France and for years have used the Royal British Legion to import our poppies for the November end of WW1 commemoration event. Last year however their internet site refused to list France as a country I could get a delivery made to. On querying this I was told that since Brexit no deliveries would be made to the EU. Funny how it was still possible for me to export poppies to French Guiana which is still part of the EU.

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

french guiana actually isn't a part of the eu anymore, when brexit occured they joined in and decided to establish with the UK something they call "the british european union"

@romeobravo2023

Жыл бұрын

@@firecreeper2249 Please state your source. According to the European Commission it is a French territory and part of the EU.

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

@@romeobravo2023 I was just joking, I find the idea of french guiana joining brexit (something that is supposed to be uniquely british) to be highly humorous, adding to that the idea that britain would try to recreate another union, and the idea of it including "european" in its name as a way of copying the eu's name despite this new hypothetical union definitely not being centered around europe and definitely not making any economical or even political sense, and the idea of french guiana starting an absurdly complexe administrative scenario by staying as a part of france yet leaving its eu to join its rival one, I think this all add to the absurdity of the scenario. I personnally find great enjoyment in the idea of creating elaborate absurd improbable scenarios, I don't know how common this sense of humour is though, so I appologise if I sent you down a flood of confusion. anyways, long story short there isn't a crazy person that think french guiana secretely left the eu or anything, I just found your story to be amusing and wanted to use it as a prompt for my personal enjoyment while sharing it in case anyone might find humour in it too.

Didn't know that, thanks

Very interesting.

What do you use to create your maps?

@dole7959

Жыл бұрын

The power of friendship

@DATAN420

11 ай бұрын

Deez nuts

Hey I'd love to see a complete romanian history or at least some history of Romania since im a romanian and I did not saw any videos with Romanian history

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

more videos on romania would be a good thing for the entire world

Thank you.

Very interesting. 🤔

Who the hell in French Guiana would want to be autonomous or independent? They’d have to be insane to wish that. Better to remain a part of France and enjoy the benefits. The alternative is to become even more of a backwater. It’s the same reason why Puerto Ricans refuse to become independent.

@schalitz1

Жыл бұрын

The Puerto Ricans love all that tourist money, they'd most certainly loose if the became independent.

@Lando-kx6so

Жыл бұрын

@@schalitz1 They wouldn't lose tourism if it was independent, it would most likely increase

@afdalridwan3813

Жыл бұрын

@@schalitz1 OOOH NOO I AM AN INDONESIAN, I DO RATHER BEING DUTCH DICK SUCKER, LET THEM SUBJECTED MY WHOLE PEOPLES,VIEW US AS SLAVES, ALONG WITH THEIR BENEFITS MONEY, UWU UWU😂🤢🤮

@kalliase

Жыл бұрын

@@Lando-kx6so literally how?

@Scidzcopter

Ай бұрын

@@Lando-kx6so hm no, we would lose to many advantages that being a French and EU citizens gives, add that the protection it give us

France could make French Guyana the next Miami / Dubai in South America so much potential.

@Briselance

Жыл бұрын

And ruin the forest? Eh... let's think about it first.😅

@braziliantsar

Жыл бұрын

@@Briselance Why not? The french deforestation in the Amazon is actually the largest among the countries in the region...

@samrevlej9331

Жыл бұрын

@@braziliantsar Bolsonarist propaganda. Deforestation comes from illegal gold harvestors who come from Brazil. Yes there is a huge infrastructure project that would be bad for the forest but I don't think it has been approved.

@kalliase

Жыл бұрын

@Brazilian Tsar LMFAOO saying this being brazilian is bold af?? brazil easily is the most polluting and deforesting nation of south america 💀💀💀

You have an interesting voice...do you mind if I ask what country you are from?

French Guiana have full French citizenship, they vote in French elections, so it's not a real colony today. They even use the Euro as currency.

I love France

Why when talking about French Revolution and stuff in 1790s that that the map in North America hasn't changed why is Britain still controlling the 13 colonies???

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

because making good maps is hard when you don't care

@afdalridwan3813

Жыл бұрын

@@firecreeper2249 He must do it on a purpose, maybe in alternative timeline No, USA George Washington just became regular citizen, no modern 🇺🇸

Can you maybe do a video about why Britain still owns Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Saint Helena, the British Virgin Islands and Bermuda? (I forgot the names of the other territories)

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

anguilla would be fun "you're independant now" "no"

Please make a vidio about stefan the great and ottomans polish war. Where stefan fought against the Poland with ottoman empire. Love France very much.

The ESA needs a good place near the Equator to start rockets from.

@ommsterlitz1805

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't for the ESA France built it way before

Vive la France 💙🇨🇵🥳 !!!

@afdalridwan3813

Жыл бұрын

Frog Eater🤮

Nice.

Very very cool videos bud perfect for a dummy like me !!!!!

It is not a territory. It is part of Metropolitan France.

Moro em Macapá - Amapá - Brasil 🇧🇷, perto da Guiana Francesa ,incrível o vídeo.

@8:07 why is there a Laos Flag?

Do you have a video of Argentina ?

The portuguese would never dare to hurt the french! We are a peaceful country, we were just trying to make them avoid bad agricultural lands, that’s it :)

@krips22

Жыл бұрын

_"The portuguese would never dare to hurt the french! We are a peaceful country"_ Aaww! That's so nice! Is it because the first Portuguese king was half French? (Afonso I 's father was a French nobleman born in Dijon, grandson of the Duke of Burgundy, that had been made Count of Portugal for his participation the Reconquista).

@tiagotimoteo4004

Жыл бұрын

@@krips22 Not just the father of D. Afonso Henriques. During the Reconquista, several nobles came from what is now France, Belgium and ended up receiving lands and titles. But not only nobles immigrated, the second king D. Sancho I is called "O Povoador" (The Populator) since he created cities in the interior of Portugal with immigrants from Burgundy and Flanders.

7:32 you misspelled french guiana you instead called it "french guinea"

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

I hate howc people sometimes decide to write essais about french guyana and then it turns out that they can't even spell french guinea right because they couldn't even bother to learn how it is spelled

Videos ideas - central America History, the history of the Americas before the colonizers, Africa history,dutch history, the history of Slavery , The History of Gunpowder and Firearms, the history of Germany . The history of country formations in America ( I would like to know why isn't Canada and the USA one country? And why the Hispanic countries in south America isn't one too?)

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

no clue if the channel is actually asking for suggestion or if you're just pestering them for no reason, but I too, would very much like a video on central america

This is nit pick but at 3:55 in 1763 it was Great Britain not United Kingdom United Kingdom wasn't formed until 1801

France actually still has alot of their former colonies. They are secretly huge

@michaelreid8857

Жыл бұрын

You don’t realize the extent of it. First look at how Haiti, was obligated to buy its independence. Every year, it gave the French massive amounts. Then how France kept a grip on most of its African colonies, far after independence!

@Shadefinder1

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelreid8857 exactly. Some one who knows lmoa

@sugeknightiswatchingyou

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelreid8857 France was not the only colonial power that did that, you can argue Russia still does that to Belarus for example

@sunnyjim1355

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelreid8857 Exacly correct. Italy's Giorgio Meloni absolutely slammed France for such, and it was glorious. kzread.info/dash/bejne/o2F3mtGgdJmraMY.html

@elfamoso8211

Жыл бұрын

@@sugeknightiswatchingyou and USA with Hawaï or GB with falklands islands

Gold.

Interesting

Spain in America : public opinion 😡 Other European countries having territories in America: public opinion 😄

@Fourbix

Жыл бұрын

Really? I've been on these channels for a long time and the only one opposed to spanish rule in america seems to be the spanish former colonies.

@zamirroa

Жыл бұрын

@@Fourbix we weren't colonies.

@afdalridwan3813

Жыл бұрын

@@zamirroa Vice royalti, just different ways to say in past your ancestor becaming European Colonialist personal subject

@zamirroa

Жыл бұрын

@@afdalridwan3813 No, we weren't colonies like English and other powers like france had.

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They probably looked at Haiti and said no thanks!

@shauncameron8390

Жыл бұрын

The African descendants who make up 66% of French Guiana's population?

Wasn’t Louisiana sold by Napoleon to Jefferson in the early 1800s? This piece says it was given up in the Treaty of Paris in 1763?

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

the seven years war ended with a lot of territorial change within the americas, one these change was louisiana becoming a spanish colony. Later during the napoleonic wars, france signed a treaty with spain that would,among other things, give her sovereignty over naple(which was under french occupation) in exchange for spain handing louisiana back to france. Napoleon wanted to start another colonial empire in the americas, but his plan was stopped when the haitian revolution removed his only foothold in the region (besides hispaniola, france's possession in NA only consisted of small islands britain could easily invade, and louisiana which was pretty much just the city of new orleans but with an overly optimistic claim), so napoleon had to give up that idea and instead made use of the territory selling it to the US

"Villegagnon" ^^

A better question: why didn't they take Brazil? Had the opportunities...

@titus_philemon

Жыл бұрын

They could barely keep small colonies in South America, imagine taking the whole country of Brazil.

@titus_philemon

Жыл бұрын

In fact, they lost all but one colony (French Guyana) which they almost lost it as well.

@thadsul

Жыл бұрын

It's more like Brazil had a better chance... If only Portugal had negotiated better at Vienna, maybe, we would be a country "from the Maroni to the Chui"

@unsrescyldas9745

Жыл бұрын

Spain was the dominant power back then and really you couldn't mess with Portugal without Spain consenting.

@silcodon

Жыл бұрын

@@unsrescyldas9745 Portugal was the dominant sea power back then, that only happened during the iberian union which was when Portugal lost the majority of its colonies

France needs to invest more in the region or change the law to a more free-market one because there is high unemployment in this region

@dapoun7228

Жыл бұрын

Former british guyana is the poorest country of south america Former dutch guyana is the 2nd poorest country Former spanish guyana is now part of Venezuela,the 3rd poorest country Former portuguese guyana is now the poorest state of Brazil French guyana is the richest (highest GDP per capita) part of south america

7:44 Laos... ok... wait, what?

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

I think the story was that laos was allied with france against viet congs??? and then when they became independant france helped the pro-french from laos to escape and they chose guiana cuz the climates were similar and french guiana was(and still is) underpopulated and underdeveloped

I forget the exact detail, but counting various states and territories, maritime boundaries, etc france controls the most time zones and geography in the world. Hmm, that's not insidious at all.

A wild Portuguese appears Brazil:come to Brazil please South Americans:no Brazil:come to Brazil plz? South Americans:No Brazil:Come to BrazIL PLZZZ South Americans:n0 Brazil... (Angry noises)- Europeans:yes Brazil:YOUR GOING TO BRAZI!!!-

Well. It’ll be interesting to see if it becomes more of a state OR a territory. Something more in line with Puerto Rico, in how its still part of the United States of America, but also an independent country of sorts. Thus, I see something in those lines for French Guinea & such…

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

french guiana is already as integrated as it can be, if france had states then guiana would be one

@nickvinsable3798

Жыл бұрын

Well, aside from terminology differences, @@firecreeper2249, it has more to do with representation & the amount of support it gives & receives to & from its federal government…

@mtk77621

Жыл бұрын

@@nickvinsable3798 France is not a federal state so that concept doesn't make sense here. French Guiana has representation in the legislature and can vote in all the french elections.

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

@@nickvinsable3798 I don't think france is going to get any more federal than it already is, or at least not in the near future, with've been making baby steps towards decentralisation and we might just loose all that with a few bad presidents. I'm not really an expert when it comes to administrative stuff but I think new caledonia, the most autonomous part of france, has less autonomy than a regular US state, and on top of that this year they're going to vote on a new status that will, afaik, make them less autonomous

@nickvinsable3798

Жыл бұрын

I honestly believe we have a misunderstanding, @@mtk77621. First of all, I compared French Guinea with Puerto Rico. Otherwise, I don’t know nor understand the specifics; yeah, my French is terrible. But when it comes to being a Problem Solver, a Politician (only a freakin’ idiot won’t get this one), I’m definitely better than the currently elected clowns in monkey suits, here in the United States of America…

Mbappe: In South America football is not advanced as in Europe. Also France:

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

france rolled a six and got all of SA's football point, sorry!

France, as a county, has a lot of sovereign states, and it also has dominated some countries before.

Why does France still have St. Pierre and Miquelon?

@krips22

Жыл бұрын

Why not?

@news_internationale2035

Жыл бұрын

Why not?

@aleajactaest7242

Жыл бұрын

In St. Pierre and Miquelon the inhabitants come from mainland France, and it's the same in St. Barthelemy (west indies)...

when you see the countries around them the worst thing they could do is become independnt they dont want to end up like their neibors

A couple of strange references to "French Guinea" toward the end of the video?!?

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

the thumbnail litterally contains a typo, don't expect too much from that guy

The portugese be like: “if the English doesn’t like you, neither should we 🤷‍♂️”

UK also have a colony in south America : Malvina Islands or Falklands in Argentina coast.

@wazzup233

Жыл бұрын

And it was occupied by Argentina in 1982 but they failed against the British in spite that they had a historical claim over that island.

France should give me personal owner ship of French Guiana

@bddld8323

Жыл бұрын

Nice name

Why does the pronunciation of French Guiana (Guyana) keep changing throughout the video?

You called it guinea several times at the end of the video… just a heads up. It’s Guiane! Pronounced like guyana without the a at the end

@firecreeper2249

Жыл бұрын

even the freaking thumbnail spell it as "FRENCH GUYANA" despite thumbnails being easily editable, I miss when channels _cared_ about sharing proper knowledge instead of just learning the bare minimum in order to rush a video

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Seems to be that the french colonies have the worst track record for success/prosperity, after independence, when compared to the english or Spanish speaking countries. To be clear i don't think this is cultural. Just a much smaller network to be able to draw on, due to far less speakers. The only positive story i can think of, is cote d'lvoire, or possibly algeria, if they avoid dictatorship. Vietnam doesn't speak french, so it doesn't count.

@erwannthietart3602

Жыл бұрын

Well Tunisia and Morroco arent doing too terribly, Algeria neither. Ironically its former North American colonies arent doing too terribly either Quebec is easily one of the richest parts of Canada and while Louisiana can barely be considered french speaking anymore and is one of the worst states of the USA to be in due to New Orleans, its still relatively decent. The biggest problem comes with Sub-Saharian Africa (partly due to France itself, and i do mean PARTLY since France doesnt exactly decides for countries to have a military coup for example its influence on Africa is already to far in decline, and the Franks in itself isnt that bad of an idea when facing the risk of BS inflation like in a certain old Portuguese colony, only sucks that France controlls the money without using it) and Asia. The french are just weird really, they make stuff work, and they make stuff not work, either way its french

@krips22

Жыл бұрын

To Haebris: _"the french colonies have the worst track record for success/prosperity, after independence,when compared to the english or Spanish speaking countries"_ Which former Spanish or British colony are doing great in Africa? (Yes, let's compare what is comparable; besides, South Africa is a very different case, for obvious reasons) _"Vietnam doesn't speak french, so it doesn't count"_ What a weird statement... the level of success of a country post-colonization is linked to the fact if they speak French or not? Was it a French colony or not?! Also, French is still spoken. This must be the worst "French suck, Anglo-saxons rulez" comment I've seen in at least 2 months (and god knows we see a lot of this kind of jingoistic antifrench comments)

@paarmenion3635

Жыл бұрын

Because you can consider a colony successful? No colony was either a good idea nor a success for the local population. Yet what about Quebec? What about Acadia? What about Louisiana? What about Indochina (it's not because a former colony doesn't speak the langague that it was less of a colony)? What about cities in India? What about Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria, Morroco, Tunisia? What about Mauritius, Seychelles? And it's funny to compare Spanish colonies with French ones since I assume you are talking about South American former colonies like Argentina, Chili etc. Well French Guiana is the wealthiest region of the entire sub-contient (higher nominal GDP per capita than Uruguay, which has the 2nd highest).

@Hession0Drasha

Жыл бұрын

@@paarmenion3635 french guiana is a part of modern france. I just mean french speaking, ex colonies of france seem to have the worst track record since independence. When compared to their english and spanish speaking counterparts.

@erwannthietart3602

Жыл бұрын

@@Hession0Drasha i mean at least its not Palestine and Israel Or Yemen and its civil war Or Soudan with Egypt and South soudan Or Nigeria with its civil war Or South Africa with its sorta civil conflict Or India and Pakistan with their endless wars Or... Yea the english colonies are doing decently well, but there has been a sh** ton of lasting conflict

8:11 isn't that the flag of lao?

@applesyrupgaming

Жыл бұрын

it is

French builds a colony. Portuguese destroys. French goes north. Re-execute this loop for several times.

@krips22

Жыл бұрын

In this loop, intercalate Year 1711, when the French took Rio de Janeiro (despite the fact that they had less fighters than the Portuguese/Brazilians).

Local indigenous people trampled and screwed

@naughtiusmaximus3690

Жыл бұрын

The majority is black...

@jimbt9889

Жыл бұрын

@@naughtiusmaximus3690 i don't think so.... you're wrong. When colonization, if that's the term to use instead of domination, occured the South American people were light skinned

@naughtiusmaximus3690

Жыл бұрын

@@jimbt9889 no, i talk about today population in french guiana, they're mostly black

@shauncameron8390

Жыл бұрын

People of African descent make up 66% of French Guiana's population.

how are these wonderful world maps created?

When Brazil occuped French Guyana, her was named Guyana Cayena

European colonialism still lives. UK can join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, because it still has a colony in the Pacific Ocean (kapow!)

@Dmazza99

Жыл бұрын

So that means France could join it also

@Valencetheshireman927

Жыл бұрын

Would that be Pitcairn island? That’s barely a colony. It only has about fifty people.

@catmonarchist8920

Жыл бұрын

50 people descendant of one British ship 😂

@news_internationale2035

Жыл бұрын

Not if it's actually a crown possession. Just because a territory or realm was protected by the UK does not mean it's actually part of the UK.

Colonisation still exists

@padinspi11

Жыл бұрын

Well yes but french overseas territories can't really be considered colonies anymore. Some are autonomous but most are integral parts of France. And of course all of them profit from being part of France even if they are still poorer than the mainland. That is why there are either no independence movements of any significance (La Réunion, Martinique Guadeloupe ...) or the people have voted against (Guyane and New Caledonia).

@striker8795

Жыл бұрын

That is not colonization. Guiyana and all of French Overseas territories are considered as region or "départements". They all had a referendum, a vote for leaving France but they said no. Colonization is when its forced

@rn7763

Жыл бұрын

@@padinspi11 Who voted no? the native population that was genocided by french or the french colonists living there?

@valentingrimault446

Жыл бұрын

@@rn7763 the people who live there voted no.

@manubestofplus9986

Жыл бұрын

​@@rn7763 Genocide? I think you can go to wikipedia and you will see that the French territories outside Europe are mainly inhabited by "people of color". They are not colonies and they are not inhabited by settlers, or slaves, or anything else. You don't know what is genocide obviously.

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Still the colonizer countries are the circle the European politics, Economy and Culturally.. ex France, UK and Germany And Italy.. Now someone will say How Germany and Italy becoz most of European immigrants 45 to 50% were form These two countries!

@RK-cj4oc

Жыл бұрын

Only the vast majority of German immigrants are not from their former colonists. Germany never colonized Turkey.

@Commonsensical513

Жыл бұрын

Mate you're literally called Imperial Russia and Russia still occupies Siberia and much of the Caucusus and is doing neocolonialism in Ukraine as we speak I don't think have any grounds to talk about 'the colonizer countries'

As usual, the local population didn't have enough influence and power to expell the colonizers. Countries don't allow independence out of good hearts.

@paarmenion3635

Жыл бұрын

Well you would be usually right but it's hard to apply your statement to French Guiana. Who was the Natives there? Six peoples were living in French Guiana before the colonization. Unlike many other territories (other French former colonies included), European authorities didn't care much about them since they were living deep inside the forest and were very few. They never were forced to live in the French society. Still today, these tribes exist and don't really call for independence since they don't live in a civilization where they strive to belong to a nation or a country. They are just happy to live among themselves. Today France is behaving very well with them and they are happy with this situation. So, who desires independence? Well, not the natives since they are up to only 5% of the population and, like I said, they don't really care about having their own country since it doesn't mean much to them. Instead, black people brought from Africa to work as slaves in the 18th century are those who desire independence the most. But still, only a few people of black descent want independence. Many other minorities live in French Guiana, like Hmong people from former French Indochina. And they don't strive for independance either. The most important party wanting independence is a far-left one getting only a few votes each election.

@riccardo9383

Жыл бұрын

@@paarmenion3635 If a powerful nation came to an uninhabited part of France, Russia or Germany, and decided to take that territory, what would the response be? It doesn't matter if it's inhabited or not, it belongs to the people of the region and surroundings, not to a country across another continent.

@paarmenion3635

Жыл бұрын

@@riccardo9383 1. I agree, the lands belong to the Natives. But they don't want or seek independence because that's not how their society works. And the very few (I insist on the very) who wants to be independent are "foreigners" because of African descent. 2. Who are the colonizers? White Europeans? Well probably but most of the population is not white nor Natives. Should they leave their lands? I mean they lived there for centuries. 3. Almost none of the White French who "colonised" the islands were "colonists". They were just sent to jail in Guiana. They didn't ask to go there either and never stole Natives' lands. 4. Now, everyone is welcomed in French Guiana. More than 40 notable nationalities live there. It's hard to say who would deserve to keep the land the most. 5. Guiana is not a colony anymore and has the same laws and rights than the rest of France. Living there is almost like living in Brittany or Burgundy. There people ask for independence too. But there they are not the majority either. Being French doesn't mean being Parisian. Bretons, Corsicans, Alsacians, Kanaks, Creoles people are all French and fully French. So no more colonists, no more colonised.

@schalitz1

Жыл бұрын

Not really, why would they want independence? Most of their government budget is probably supplied by France and most the jobs available to the locals are probably a direct result of being a part of France. If they left they'd become a third world backwater. Can't even get a direct flight from there to the US.

@lucaj8131

Жыл бұрын

@@riccardo9383 Land belongs to the people that inhabit it, Guyana belongs to the people that live there and they chose to be in the republic, it doesn't belong to France, it is part of it, just like britany doesnt belong to France, it's part of it, because their people are french. It's not that deep.