French colonial rule thread

the french are incompetent
they have always had the biggest population in europe, at least until a few centuries ago
that means they were capable of giving the impression of being a major, powerful nation
in reality they are fuckwitted fucktards with borderline fucking autism

and where is your hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

>Historical Evidence??????

>they have always had the biggest population in europe
That's a meme created to explain why French kicked the ass of Europe so many times, the true explanation is that French are racially superior.

You mean regarding the atrocities commited to the original populace?

France welcomed the colonized peoples into Metropolitan France. If they learned the french language, they could "come home". The brits never did this.
This spread the egalitarian spirit of the Revolution throught the world.

You are an idiot.

Hey fucktard wrong board

Indeed there is a major difference here. Anglo education produced Gandhi, an effeminate faggot afraid of violence... There must be something in the food served in the school canteens.

>France welcomed the colonized peoples into Metropolitan France. If they learned the french language, they could "come home".

In theory. In practice France really didn't want natives running to France in large numbers them facing the inevitable fact that in the metropolis eyes a nigger/jungle gooke in a suit is still a nigger/jg

Can we talk about French salt taxes in Vietnam?

About the only halfway decent anglo place on that chart is the white part of south africa.

Take Haiti for an example. France put zero effort into Haiti, they treated it as just an island for resources. Laos, Camnodia, Vietnam at least had long term resources and indigenous people that would fight to protect themselves. The French were never very good at conquest.

>Colonies and Africa are mention
>3/5 replies involve "Nigger, white race, anglo-superiority, only good part is white part"

I didn't realize /pol/ was moving in

And rhat relied on the non-white parts.

You know that Nigeria and Egypt are two of Africa's most densely populated nations right?
The fact that Nigeria has 4.5 times Algeria's population yet only a little over twice Algeria's wealth should tell you something.

Algeria's a weird case in that the Frogs actually intended to integrate it as a real part of France, and thus the focus was less on exploitation and more on making it somewhere a Frenchman would actually want to live. A more apt comparison would be looking at the states surrounding Nigeria.

That being said, I'm surprised it's still holding up so well given how brutal the independence war was.

>How come French colonies such as Syria or Indo-China would become places of great conflict?
How did this meme begin? There were wars of decolonization in British colonies too (Kenya, Malaya), and Dutch and Portuguese as well. Meanwhile most French colonies decolonized completely peacefully. It was common to all colonial powers to have at least a few colonies that got independence violently, while most were peaceful. There were plenty of differences between the way different empires were run, but this wasn't one of them.

Hey, faggot. Wrong website.

Botswana isn't even on the list and its very stable and developing.

It's because it's a table of nominal GDP. Should be PPP per capita, but then that wouldn't fit the narrative

woah.... you mean that if a country has larger colonies, and hence more people in their colonies, these will thus have greater GDP?
Is this the power of Veeky Forums....?

Those educated and elevated by the french went to france. French colonial policy structured its exclusion on culture: it would ban this or that cultural practice near its population centres, but for the odd person who went to the trouble of discarding them and working on their latin conjugation there was no reason to keep them out. They became properly french and received every right and protection afforded to all citizens. Once you have that, who gives a fuck about Senegal when you can go to Provence?
Not so in english colonies. Doesn't matter what you learned or who from, a colonial subject is a colonial subject. consequently, in the process of decolonisation there was much less brain drain, because the colonial intelligensia had no reason to be loyal to the isles.

>Meanwhile most French colonies decolonized completely peacefully.

Vietnman and Algeria had a huge war.
Guinea when it went independent before France let the rest of FrenchAfrica go which made France Angry so the French stripped everything that wasn't bolted to the ground and left.
Also for French Africa, France is balls deep in it way more then most most ex imperial power by far and is basically involved in every facet of that groups structure.

Yet the English generated a fuck ton of Indian educated people.

The educated ones in Senegal had to trucking BEG to be treated respectfully and receive properly representation in French politics. In the Four Communes in Senegal those who were born in these towns could technically enjoy all the rights of native French citizens, but substantial legal and social barriers prevented the full exercise of these rights, especially by those seen by authorities as 'full blooded' Africans. The very few number of Africans who were able to pursue higher education and were willing to renounce their legal protections could 'rise' to be termed Évolué ('Evolved') and were nominally granted full French citizenship.

The French ideal of assimilation is a fucking farce because deep down they never were into it, it was only a token gesture to appease the French people into accepting Frances actions in it's global endeavors. Evolueé still faced massive discirmantion abroad and in Africa. The fuckton of people vouching for independence were "Assimilated" natives lol.

The english could generate educated subjects well enough, but it could not (or would not) enfranchise them and give them a place within the british polity. They had a lot to gain from independence and real skills to make it sustainable.

French assimilation was a farce, that's beyond doubt, but it was not the british policy of honest exclusion. It took considerable pains and efforts to become one of frances token assimilates, more than to become an educated indian, because the french colonial subject has the added burden of having to learn an alien culture by heart and from scratch as part of his social advancement.

Do not take this to mean I am boosting the french above the english: quite the opposite, actually. As has been said, former english colonies do better than former french, and it's not for nothing. As you've noted, assimilates faced significant discrimination based on this farce, and by the temperament enforced by their colonial learning were unsuited for nation-building.

>accuses people to be /pol/
>references 3/5ths compromise

>Gandhi, an effeminate faggot afraid of violence.
really made me think