Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoNew Caledonia: Two dead as riots escalate after French votewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down13
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkNew Caledonia: Two dead as riots escalate after French votewww.bbc.comAmoxtli@thelemmy.club to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareDrusas@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·5 months agoWow. And I’ve been under the impression that this sort of extremely overt, blatant Western colonialism had been basically phased out in the decades after World War II.
minus-squarevulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-25 months agoSame here, but apparently this isn’t even an isolated example: https://youtu.be/fiD24uEvY1U?si=kqH-ixnhSvc4S_HG (Video about their colonialism and exploitative monetary policy in the Saheel / Africa).
Wow. And I’ve been under the impression that this sort of extremely overt, blatant Western colonialism had been basically phased out in the decades after World War II.
Same here, but apparently this isn’t even an isolated example:
https://youtu.be/fiD24uEvY1U?si=kqH-ixnhSvc4S_HG
(Video about their colonialism and exploitative monetary policy in the Saheel / Africa).