Too be fair America is that way too with our "incorpuated territories" which honestly we mostly forget even exists... Because we focus mostly on Puerto Rico
Edit because I don't wanna reply to everyone when I say "focus mostly on Puerto Rico" I mean it the one that talked about the most (mostly about statehood and stuff) yes I know our focous on Puerto Rico is sporadic and that many Americans in the US don't realize Puerto Rico is also part of the US I guess they think if they aren't a state it doesn't count
@dtilque In Star Trek: First Contact, despite New Zealand being mentioned in a few episodes of Star Trek, it was strangely absent when looking out a portal on the ship. You can see Australia, Tasmania, and all the other islands in that part of the world but no New Zealand...
@Isdaril Well... most people realize New England is part of the US... and New York, and New Jersey. Those all have foreign places in the name, and yet are part of the US.
@merpius I live in New England myself, and it's not unusual that, when I'm when chatting with someone in other parts of the country and I tell them that, they'll ask me how things are on my side of the pond and what do I think about the Queen and all that? New York and New Jersey never seem to get that, I guess because everyone sees so much of those on TV.
@merpius Fair point. Though England is on the other side of the atlantic while mexico is just accross the border so it may be easier to remember that new England/York/Jersey are not part of england.
@Isdaril Well, it was part of Mexico, along with the rest of the Southwest, up until 1848. Originally "Mexico" meant the area around what is now Mexico City, and when explorers went to see what lay further north, they called the area "Nuevo Mexico", in much the same way that English explorers called the area of the new world that they landed in "New England". Once we got the land, we just didn't bother to change the name, though we did whittle it down quite a lot.
@AmericanButterfly Americans pay almost not one single whit of attention to PR. Continental americans forget about their conquered territories because they're myopic and like to forget about their conquest when it's not directly making them look cool in their minds.
@Lailah During the 2020 Democratic primary races, Michael Bloomberg bet the farm on Super Tuesday, when a large number of states hold their primaries, and ended up with only four delegates from American Samoa. We're all saying, "Why is Samoa voting in our elections?"
@TheFlyingMilkBottle I'm not sure how people who live on USVI would feel about that they have a holiday called "Transfer Day" to celebrate when Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the U.S.A
@AmericanButterfly But if we got them back, at least they would have national representation and be able to vote in Danish elections, besides having their own government; but their taxes would skyrocket... Swings and roundabouts I guess.
Ok the American Territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The only one I ever hear about is Puerto Rico who really wants to be a state. I have never really heard anything about the Northern Mariana Islands or American Samoa in the news or Guam for that matter. So I guess there is a point to that territories are somewhat overlooked
@boundgirlie fun fact :-) The U.S. Virgin Islands used to be Danish, but was sold to the US in 1916 for 25 million US dollars in gold and was handed over 31. of March 1917
Well at least it means you do think of them sometimes... I mean France's offshore territories just seem to always get forgotten about. For example at the start of the COVID pandemic, the Reunion had to go full isolation mode even though they didn't have a single case on the island. I guess we just edicted a rule for everybody and forgot they even existed...
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