There’s really nothing on this side of the world except Australia and a few small islands. We’re the same distance to India, China, California, and Chile. Far from everywhere. The most surreal thing is the country closest to New Zealand is France!
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How is that possible - on NZ being closest to France?
There’s also a bridge from Brazil to France. It’s true and amazing.
Think about how both of these things are possible.
Colonialism
French Polynesia?
France considers Guyane to be an overseas department of France and as such equal with the rest of Metropolitan France, fully part of France and the European Union. So France is the closest country to New Zealand and has a bridge to Brazil. While also being mostly in Europe.
so true. wow didn't realise there's so many France territories that were colonised and never returned back
Yes, I think we don’t acknowledge enough the tremendous injustice of Colonialism and the way it’s shaped the world today. France in particular never really gave up its empire. There are lots of colonies who were just redefined as ‘part of France’ without an restorative justice for the past. Others like French Africa were given independence as long as the former colonies agreed to use a Central Bank owned and controlled by France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Central_African_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_West_African_States
All this discussion on here amongst folks who care about the corrupt influence of central banks, there’s not enough looking at the way France imposed a central bank on it’s colonies in order to keep control.
In the case of New Caledonia there’s real tension between the indigenous Kanak people, the European French, and other ethnic groups. The Kanak want independence but aren’t a majority so when it’s come up for a vote, a narrow majority has voted to remain part of France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Caledonian_independence_referendum
Friends who’ve visited New Caledonia say they felt the tension of this being a segregated colonial society.
Anyway, it’s part of France.
Tahiti on the other hand has a much lower percentage of it’s population of European descent and only recently elected a pro-independence political party.
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-polynesia-oscar-temaru-france-overseas-territory/
Tahiti?
You think?
Remember the humans?
🤔
How are you mother of OK to ve caught ‘cheating’?
Any outs there, sport? 
You good bruh?
😉
Not that it matters when gringo scum are kinda sick and corrupt when being here somehow trying to justify their corruption by arguing whether you’re hatey.
Change my mind. 
Where is OK?
or let’s get dirty 
Gags and mutes you has.
#MRC 
Doesn’t produce OK, and have a chat on knowing what banked.
I 💙 Gauguin’s work in Tahiti
Another island?! 🧐
#sunsets & #sunrises
New Caledonia, also French.
New Caledonia actually. :-D
Thoughts on why you chose NZ over Aus? What did the kiwis do better? 😅
Now you got us all looking at maps haha.
Cool tidbits! The FG & Brazil connection & could glean … but had no clue about the France one