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International Affairs and Political/Territorial Conflicts
Category: Relationships and Society > Politics Asked by: mrcaballo-ga List Price: $20.00 |
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30 Jun 2006 11:09 PDT
Expires: 30 Jul 2006 11:09 PDT Question ID: 742373 |
What are ALL the existing colonies or un-incorporated territories in the world at the present time? What are the details of their relationships with their parent country? Is it illegal for a country to have colonies? Where can colonies dispute their colonial status? |
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Re: International Affairs and Political/Territorial Conflicts
From: myoarin-ga on 30 Jun 2006 18:57 PDT |
Colonies - and the word itself - are going out of style (Hongkong, Macao, Goa). Perhaps Gibralta, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda (UK), Cueta & Melilla (Spain) are the only remaining colonies. Netherland Antilles is described as an autonomous region of the Netherlands that is not part of the EU. Apparently Curacao and Sint Martin will become independent in 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curacao The French overseas areas (Réunion, Guiana, and others) are now fully integrated (maybe not the right word) in the French Republic as the Département d'outre-mer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Overseas_Departments Similarly, Greenland is now incorporated in Denmark. The Faroe Islands are not a Danish colony, at least in present day terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands Antarctica is unincorporated. Various nations have historical claims to areas there, but these are not recognized by most other countries, and since 1959 there is an international agreement to leave things this way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica I probably missed some place. |
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Re: International Affairs and Political/Territorial Conflicts
From: probonopublico-ga on 30 Jun 2006 21:40 PDT |
Ants still have colonies. I guess that no one's told them that 'they are going out of style'. What should they do? |
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Re: International Affairs and Political/Territorial Conflicts
From: myoarin-ga on 01 Jul 2006 02:22 PDT |
And bees and hamsters live in colonies, but neither ants nor bees nor hamsters have much importance in "International Affairs and Political/Territorial Conflicts". (Okay, maybe in local territorial conflicts) The ants and bees are obviously quite Victorian in their politics, still retaining queens as their heads of state. As an afterthought, I would add the US Virgin Islands to the list of colonies, although that word is avoided: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands The status of Puerto Rico is open to debate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico Note: both have a governor as head of state, typical of colonies, although these days in most places they are locally elected/selected - and in some members of the British Commonwealth then appointed by the Queen, a bit of colonial tradition that does not make them still to be colonies. Actually, the most colony-like areas are these days called *autonomous* regions, which can be a crass misnomer: Tibet, Palestine, the erstwhile autonomous members of the Soviet Union, which in Central Asia were also colonies in the sense that many Russians (were) settled in the areas, as Han Chinese are now settling (colonizing) in Tibet. Ah, for the good old days, eh, Bryan, when the sun didn't set on the British Empire and Rudyard Kipling could write and rhyme about the glories and travails of colonial life. |
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