Violence in the tourist mecca of New Caledonia

[The Bread Guy]

And, to be fair, we, the members of the online community here, probably have more of an eye/ear open for conflict-related news of all kinds than a "typical" Canadian media consumer.

 

[OldSolduer]

And, to be fair, we, the members of the online community here, probably have more of an eye/ear open for conflict-related news of all kinds than a "typical" Canadian media consumer.

To add they don't want to know about conflict, or war, or politics and name a few other topics.

 

[The Bread Guy]

To add they don't want to know about conflict, or war, or politics and name a few other topics.

Again, to be fair to the unwashed masses, I'm intrigued by this because I'm intrigued by France's colonial legacy (for both better and worse), but for most people worried about gas prices, food prices, mortgages and health care, unless they have family members back in "the old country" involved, I suspect the latest on any of the following would generally not affect their lives significantly, therefore not draw the eye/ear ....

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[Blackadder1916]

Again, to be fair to the unwashed masses, I'm intrigued by this because I'm intrigued by France's colonial legacy (for both better and worse), . . .

Awareness of France's colonial legacy is usually of the large territories and millions of people that made up its African and South East Asian possessions and the long and bloody conflicts in attempts to hold on to them. When most are even aware of French possessions in the Pacific and Caribbean it is often modified by visions of pleasant holiday destinations or maybe negatively as an isolated venue for nuclear testing. Rarely do people think of the areas much beyond them being a scattering of islands and a population numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Most would be surprised that France's development of New Caledonia was mostly as an alternate destination for convict labour (to work the nickel mine) or that the use of "reserves" to which the indigenous population were relocated and mostly confined continued to after WW2.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Awareness of France's colonial legacy is usually of the large territories and millions of people that made up its African and South East Asian possessions and the long and bloody conflicts in attempts to hold on to them. When most are even aware of French possessions in the Pacific and Caribbean it is often modified by visions of pleasant holiday destinations or maybe negatively as an isolated venue for nuclear testing. Rarely do people think of the areas much beyond them being a scattering of islands and a population numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Most would be surprised that France's development of New Caledonia was mostly as an alternate destination for convict labour (to work the nickel mine) or that the use of "reserves" to which the indigenous population were relocated and mostly confined continued to after WW2.

Whoa, whoa, whoa - lotta nuance and history there. If it can't be meme'd, it ain't getting public traction