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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm beginning to doubt the accuracy of the labeling...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's because that little chunk of South America is French Guiana, which is a full-fledged part of France (not just a territory, but a departement with political status equal to the ones in mainland Europe).

It's also where the European Space Agency launches their spacecraft from, by the way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Cool. I'm not sure what that has to do with the continent, though. Politically, I'm uncertain if that would count as something other than colonization, either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It depends what aspect of colonization is important to your definition, I guess. Is it about imperialist expansion to non-contiguous territories, or is it more specifically about extracting resources from those territories for the exclusive benefit of the motherland?

At any rate, I would say that French Guiana either counts or doesn't count as a colony of France to the same extent that Hawaii counts or doesn't count as a colony of the United States.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Edit: no need to repeat myself. I think European would have been a more reasonable label.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There are multiple definitions of "Europe".
French Guyana isn't geographically, geologically, culturally or historically part of Europe.
But politically and legally, it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What exactly does this have to do with anything in the above comment?