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Damn there’s still bits and pieces of colonial detritus strewn about on the world map. “New Caledonia” sounds made up almost. Apologies to any New Caledonian reading this.
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New Caledonia voters choose to stay part of France latimes.com/world-nation/s
Though from the Wikipedia page it looks like a mix of natives and European expats so I imagine that’s the way the vote split.
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Yep “Sunday’s independence referendum was among the final steps of longstanding plans to settle tensions on the archipelago between native Kanaks seeking independence and residents willing to remain in France.”
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The world is too complicated. Nation states are officially too primitive for 2020. Here are a couple of tiny islands few could place on a map working out 200 years of baggage.
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So basically ~130k people somewhere on an island in the Pacific want to tell France to go away. That’s like just a bit larger than the U of M football stadium. Something either silly or genius about it. Maybe we *should* organize in 130k political units. Stadium-states.
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Stadium sized parliaments. Twitter hashtag as debate. Online votes. Strike belt-road deal with China to travel on Chinese passports and take loans from China to buy Chinese stuff. Sweet deal.
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