Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Why France Owns Part of South America" video.

  1.  @TheWoollyFrog  But Quebec is not a country, but a province of Canada.
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  2.  @mrworldwide7387  Botswana had little problem developing.
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  3. Just to satisfy your ego.
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  4. Actually it's Puerto Rico itself that doesn't want to be independent.
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  5. Don't hold your breath. The population isn't getting a damn thing.
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  6.  @v1n1c1u55anto5  Plus 40% of French Guiana live in poverty.
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  7. Yet Mayotte is the poorest department in France.
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  8. Namely West Africa.
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  9. Russian and China have been invaders for most of their histories.
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  10. BS according to who? They never never indigenous. They're part of the 96% of African slaves that got transported to Latin America.
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  11. <As France treats Guiana as their equals, they will be fine with being part of France.> LOL. France barely acknowledges French Guiana's existence. <Independence is overrated.> Only to the lazy and weak.
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  12.  @modo1896  Actually, not even that as they would have to pay Federal income tax and half of the island is not in any position to pay it as they're on social assistance.
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  13.  @lecryptomanciendu3578  Not in Southeast Asia where Singapore, an ex-British colony, is the wealthiest. Or the Caribbean where it's the Bahamas and Barbados.
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  14. <his why the independence of Dutch Guyana and British Guyana has gone so poorly,> No. They went poorly because they were taken over by far-left communist types and in British Guyana's case, racial tensions namely between the Indo and Afro Guyanese.
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  15. You're confusing them with Britain.
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  16. With the vast majority residing in Quebec.
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  17.  @TheGirard62  Only because of France.
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  18. LOL. French Guiana is not that well-developed. And the real reason why French Guiana doesn't want independence is because it has no real economy and it's nothing without French subsidies which accounts for 80% of its overall GDP.
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  19.  @thetrist333  Actually they don't. French Guiana looks less developed. And the only people enjoying better living conditions are the mainland French that moved in for the space center jobs.
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  20. Jonestown was in British Guiana now known as Guyana.
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  21.  @mrworldwide7387  Only because of French taxpayers.
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  22.  @dapoun7228  <1% remaining is the spatial center and rocket launch base.....> Yet the only people employed there are mainland French with French taxpayer-subsidized salaries.
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  23.  @mrsupremegascon  Only 8.9% of French Guiana's population come from France.
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  24. No. That is British Guyana now know as just Guyana.
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  25. Yet 40% of French Guianaise live in poverty.
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