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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't forget the section of South America that is also Europe on that picture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 2 points 1 month 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 1 month 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] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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

There is probably a reason those countries all speak Spanish or Portugese.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, that is what colonialism tends to do. It is still not part of Europe, which is a well defined geographic(!) region. Wiki: Europe