It would be quite ironic given the island's most famous resident, Napoleon, created the first French empire and became that nation's go to historic figure but who knows.
France and Corsica about to fight each other in the future over Napoleon's Legacy XD Edit: just like Greece & North Macedonia with Alexander the Great today
The language spoken in Corsica is a variant of the Italian spoken in Tuscany long time ago. The Tuscan Italian is the base for the standard Italian. So if you speak standard Italian, but not French, you can still have a quite normal conversation with Corsican people speaking Corsican, unlike with Sardinians. I tried myself.
@@unskilledwarthunderplayer4011 only in the most rural parts, it's actually not that bad. Also we speak a variant of Corsican in northern Sardinia so we can understand each other, and even in the provinces where they speak it not many people speak Sardinian anymore
Corsican here, very nice of you to make a video about our small island. I work in the tourism industry and all my colleagues are from "Le continent" (mainland france). Young corsicans are not very interested in the tourism business. I live in Aiacciu (Ajaccio) and the tourist influx is bigger sometimes than the entire population of the island which is crazy. Adding to that the giant cruise boats that spew out massive amount of people and the pollution it generates... each passing years i'm more and more keen on leaving the tourism industry. Avvèdeci !
Love the flag. Not offended in the least. We were told the moors were not black but this flag says otherwise. Is this a depiction of a moor?? What's the story behind it if u care to explain. Thx
You actually got a part wrong hoser. The Genoa didn't sell Corsica to France because they were tired of the civil war, they gave them to France because they owed France war reparations and they didn't exactly have the money to pay it off so instead they gave them Corsica instead. It's also important to note that both of Napoleon's parents were Italian and hadn't been on the island too long when they made and gave birth to Napoleon
Pasquale Paoli was an underrated genius. He just casually wrote the first democratic constitution of the modern age (that was more democratic than the US one). He just did it.
Thats because the U.S. isn't a democracy lmao, it merely has democratic policies-so any actually democratic structure is going to be far more democratic than the U.S.-Founding Fathers avoided democracy bc they knew it would lead to the same populist tactics that Ceaser fucking used; ALSO why they didn't want a 2-party system, as it would/has led to populist tactics as seen in modern times. Look at Andrew Yang and the other politicians' new party-both 'standard' sides are already trying to smear it even though it's comprised of both said fucking sides. Why? Because the Forward party is founded on solutions and public service, not the populist tactics of political generalizations tied with 'moral superiority'
*It would be hard to write one less democratic than the US, given that the electoral college and their 'first past the post' voting system makes it virtually impossible for any third parties to win elections.*
I wouldn't call the island "small" it's pretty damn large for an island I think. I always thought Corsica and Sandinia looks very cool on a map. Uniquely beautiful.
This! I fucking hate it when youtubers call islands with thousands of square kilometres to be small. Some youtubers even call Java small lol. Yeah small enough to be larger than almost half of the states in the US. These statements are frequently followed by statements that diminish the state of the island, its inhabitants or its species richness/land fertility.
@@saagrest Canada, Russia, China, India: famously islands. Also, the biggest countries in the world, with the _vast_ majority of countries being a lot smaller.
Great video but there is a mistake, most Corsicans speak french as their first langage, in fact only 20% of the population of the island speak corsican on a daily basis
Well, that is due to reforms that the French government took to prevent people from speaking Corsican. We lost a lot of our culture, but there's still a lot of households that speak Corsican. We just happen to also speak French.
I wonder if the "Tu serais Français!" way of schooling that was used until the late '80s had something to do with it... disincentivizing local languages by fines, mockery, delegitimization, ridicule, corporal punishment at school... ;)
@@LaRévolutionSocialesame thing happened to us cajuns in Louisiana. Our grandparents was punished for speaking french at school and they made it hard to get a job unless you spoke English. So in turn they didn't teach their children...our language is almost eradicated.
@thngvbts5182 Not only similar, it is a language of the italian-dalmatian language family. It actually is a sister language to the dialects from tuscany, from where you get standart italian
no, non c' entra un tubo con il siciliano... il corso è una variante (isolata e antica) del toscano, quindi se lo capisci non è certo per il siciliano, ma perché conosci l' italiano
Problem is, if France lets Corsica become independent, other groups within its borders may wanna start leaving. And even if they let them, I don't think spain would accept it as a country, since that would get ethnic groups like basques (on both sides of the pyrenees, cause some are in south-western France) and catalans to start pushing for their own independence even more.
Every nation has the right to rule itself. Also if Spain doesn´t recognise an independent Corsica, it doesn´t really matter for Corsica. The same way Kosovans don´t care that Spain doesn´t recognise them.
I'm pretty doubtful. Small, split up population with little way to really organize and it's so reliant on the aid of others. For it to be independent, it would either have to live with all the repercussions it already deals with on it's own before some other nation bails it out or 100's of years of history, especially in the lack of fields and jobs, would need to change drastically.
@@oslo0323orsicans hate people settling in their islands , even tourists , and also it will most likely be a place where pirates and migrants will go like the old days
That's not an issue at all, Hong kong and Singapore area also like that and thy're the richest places on earth. Stop repeating that conservative lie. But I wouldn't expect someone who watches anime in their mom's basement to know about that.
@@huguesdepayens807 Hong Kong is no longer independent it is part of china and Singapore has alot of trade due to its area in the world it's in a very important straight but corsica 1. Wouldn't be in the EU so that would be a problem to it's trade 2. It's people are dived and it's main way of making money is run by mostly non Corsicans
I have a similar thing. One of my ancestors was an Irish boxer who moved to the US because there was more competition here. He then fought in the civil war and settled in Illinois
Imagine Corsica (or any Mediterranean Island) 5 Million years ago. It would have been a lonely, desert mountain in the middle of the deepest, driest region on Earth - the vast salt pans of the Mediterranean basin. The shores of what is the Mediterranean sea today would have been huge cliffs, dropping down almost 5 km deep, and at the bottom the temperature would have reached nearly 80 Celsius - a cauldron of hot air that only extremophile bacteria could survive in. The vast rivers of North Africa and Southern Europe - the Po, the Rhone, the Nile - all would have evaporated before reaching the bottom of this, the deepest canyon in the Solar system. Whatever life clung to Monte Corsica would have been completely isolated from the mainland, either leftovers from the last time that basin had been a sea or descendants of flying animals. Island dwarfism and gigantism were also at play: giant flightless geese up to 3 meters tall with club-like bones set in their wings for slapping other males to chase them off during the breeding season, dormice the size of housecats, a hedgehog relative turned pursuit carnivore the size of a puma, elephants the size of donkeys, the isolated mountains of this vast salt pan were host to some of the strangest species, long cut off from the mainland and left to occupy niches undisturbed for millions of years. And then came the flood - a large earthquake shook the Straights of Gibraltar, opening at first a tiny crack in the land, but it was enough for the Atlantic Ocean to start pouring through. The resulting flow must have been the most powerful movement of water in Earth's history, with water being shot into the salt pan close to the speed of sound and falling for over a kilometer down to the valley floor below. The native species of Corsica must have seen a vast plume of mist rising on the horizon, and heard the thunder of the greatest waterfall to have ever existed, even from hundreds of kilometers away. Some estimate that the entire basin filled in under a century - one century, to fill the entire sea!
6:52 Other fun fact: Napoleon didn't speak French until he was a teen. Only Italian and Corsican (which are nearly identical). For any Italian, it's very easy to read those anti-French graffiti, as well as Paoli's constitution.
Not many people were speaking French in france at that time. It was the language of the nobility. Until ww1, most french would speak the language of their region.
There is nothing ''fun'' in this fact. Many French subjects of the French Crown didn't speak french at the time of Napoleon birth, but their local dialect or even language in fact everywhere a part Paris and central France. Dozen of millions of them. Only in the court or for central government affairs was French to be used. This changed after the Revolution, in the 19th century when French was used as the only official language for everything and the public schools acted to make it so.
Being part of the EU may have made these new countries possible based on regional identities… BUT, and it’s a big ‘but’, Spain will definitely not allow a breakaway country to become grandfathered into the EU. Spain has made it plain they wouldn’t allow it for Scotland-they were also cagey about allowing Scotland in after a formal application process as well.
the big difference usually is geografical proximity, all the example ppl can tell all over europe will have this big difference corsica is way closer to italy than to france, litteraly to liguria and tuscany, to be france make so much less sense, if it was indipendend or an italian regions it could share even logistic and infrastructure with sardinia which is the way it was under roman republic it was "sardinia and corsica" provence till all became italian provence.
As a scot this is what i have heard as well, spain will only let new nations join if they get the approval of the parent state, although in the case of catalonia i think its just a scare tactic i can't imagine it would be politically tenable for spain to keep it up although I could be wrong
@@plumebrise4801 the majority of the population relies on state wellfare , and their birthrate is catastrophic. Bytheway, ti's strange how nationalism is celebrated in some cases but not other cases. The nation state of Ukraine is sacred, the nation state of France is to be destroyed. Corsica should have it's independance because it has a local language spoken by 20% of the population, like 70% of France by the way, but Dombass and Crimea should'nt when they have 90% russian speaking populations. And why the hell americans don't chose to focus on Hawai's independance from the US colonizer ... huh?
@backintimealwyn5736 also applies to Kosovo. The Kosovo situation is basically the same thing that's happening in Ukraine right now, yet depending on what side you are on, you will only support one or the other. If we really were to divide the world into perfectly ethnic lines, then the whole world will just succumb to tribalism and even more wars/disagreements. It's also extremely counter productive to create even more borders and more little confined bureaucracies in such a globalized world. People often support these movements without actually understanding what that entails. I think only oppressed minorities and colonies should be given the right to self determination. Not Scotland, Catalonia, nor corsica are oppressed minorities, they all have autonomy and have the same rights as the rest of the people in the country they are in.
it's exactly why it won't happen Corsicans loves France and have too much to lose as well as mafia that would take control like in all others independent islands, ldlotlc click bait video.
@@backintimealwyn5736i think for Donbass the problem isn't if they are or not Russian but why there is so much Russian speaking people there. In Corsica they were here a long long time ago even during the roman I believe. But in the Donbass they got here when Ukrainian suffered a genocide or at least one of the worst starving of USSR history. Same goes for Crimea the population of origin got deported and replaced by poor Russians.
Corsica: We’re declaring independence. Genoa: Hey France do you want to buy this island? France: Sure thing. Narrator: Just in time for Napoleon to be born French. Corsicans: Go home French soldiers. Young Napoleon: Yeah they said it. Carlo Bonaparte: I embrace my French bros. Young Napoleon: Oh look at me I’m dad. I wear powdered wigs, silverbuckle shoes and I’m a traitor to the Corsican people. Carlo: Go to your room Napoleon! Napoleon: No you go to your room dad! Carlo: Ok
@@timjobs3634I think so. I noticed that all his videos seem to upload either at the very beginning or very end of the month so maybe a week or two from now
I mean, Napoleon's parents were actually born in mainland France and he spent a lot of time studying there so it kinda makes sense that he felt more French than Corsican, even though he struggled to speak French properly. Also, it doesn't really have anything to do with what I wrote but I want to mention a little fun fact which is his baptism certificate being written neither in French nor Corsican but straight up Italian.
Well he's called oversimplified for a reason . It didn't really go like that . Genova offered France ports on the island but this agreement was not respected and the island was overrun by French troops
France is a fascist country if we want to discuss autonomism. They are extremely centralized in politics and defend the concept of unitarian France to death.
@@shoto7643yes and no. Just figure that France is a very centralized nation that like administrative uniformity, but that it never fully worked in Corsica, for reasons reaching from geography to popular sentiment. It has a parliament but it has very little influence and is mostly tasked with local budget and administrative degree, really it just is a regional council like those you find anywhere else in France, it just given itself the title of "parlement" as a political statement. Concerning its administrative status, it is considered a region of métropolitan France and hold the same status as aquitaine or normandy, albeit it has been given some limited autonomy, just enough to stop corsicans to demonstrate
they have special status like peurto rico, and like peutro rico if they ever get full economic automony they are in for decades of crippling poverty without their big momma country pumping them full of subsidies and tourist (although peurto rico is actually kinda different and would flourish much better if it doesnt get sanctioned like Cuba)
@@shoto7643 You are exaggerating the powers of that parliament and of those supposedly high statuses of autonomy. The commentator is correct, it’s more akin to Normandy’s forms of autonomy with barely any political differences. The idea of having a parliament or councils is more of a sweet-nothing rather then a substantial degree of autonomy. In fact, that’s exactly why they vote in federal elections even as a special territory.
@@shoto7643 I didn’t mean to say federal I understand that France is a unitary state. I’m saying it is more akin to any other regional council rather then a more powerful political entity, i did not mean literally normandy has more autonomy or a special status. Not only that, they vote in both legislative and presidential elections, additionally Martinique is actually given the same special status as Corsica - your argument of them being “less autonomous” is actually self defeating because their governments are both given special privileges under the same constitutional provision. This is why they also have a assembly, although they do not have executive councils (very little difference in what’s being managed) as a difference of political autonomy it is nothing. Tell me a policy that Corsica could pass but Martinique couldn’t with their assemblies. The answer is that there is no difference, both are single territorial collectivities.
Puerto Rico and Cuba had a significant amount if Corsican migration in the 19th century. The fricative sound in some Puerto Rican Spanish is said to have stemmed from french speakers. Many people have french and Italian last names as well. The city of Ponce and town of Yauco have landmarks made in honor of Corsican migrants who enriched the island culture.
Yeah there was Corsican immigration to Caribbean (Mainly Cuba ,Puerto Rico ,Dominican Republic) ,Central America ,France mainland and Italy ,Corsica is also one of the territory that started losing population the earliest (Since like the 1830's I believe ,from that point ,they would falsify their census data ,making it seem that they gained habitant ,all that to get more fund from the French government , they would get caught falsifying the 1946 Census (Or it was the 1954 one ?) and then the data of all the previous census have been corrected) It's like what the Chinese subdivisions are doing) ,basically the Corsican were migrating ,but their pyramid age ... At the time ,they were the territory with the lowest share of young in the population (Those younger than 15 years old) while also having the highest share of old in their population (Those older than 65 years old)
As a British person, Corsica has quite an influencial if subtle role in our History because it encouraged greater cooperation between monarchist and Parliamentary forces, leading to the Parliamentary-Monarchy the UK has which is so strong.
@@iLovettGolf it was a kind of political loophole deal, I think France wanted to devolve it part of france proper, Britain was fighting france at the time and invaded the island and took official control for like a year before ceding it back to independence.
I would have thought the ubiquitous graffiti and the danger posed by the aggravated people living there would diminish its status as a tourist destination, but a lot of tourist destinations are like that, actually
Being a tourist destination often drives up the cost of living massively, greatly hurting the local population, especially in a case like this where foreigners reap the profits of said tourism. Armed resistance is the usual response by said local population, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, always with lots of graffiti.
My great great grandfather emigrated from Corsica to Puerto Rico, settled down in a coffee plantation, and had 9 kids. My great grandmother and grandmother are classic Italian ladies, and I never noticed it until I researched my family and Corsica's history for a college project.
@@Vexxy197 India have defeated France 1000 years ago. That Corsica should be ours now. Our Yogis have fight with Napolean Bonaparty before and Napolean even apologise to our Yogis so our Yogis let Napolean rule France without interuption.
Nice is the birth place of Garibaldi the most important man for Italian unification. But we still left the city to France. Thouh the place originally was not even French culturally speaking. Then I don't really see why France cannot leave Corsica that is not French, furthremore Napoleon was Corsican and not French. It's their land and they deserve the right to choose.
-Very little working age population -No industry outside tourism -No more financial support from France -No more French police keeping the Mafia and clan feuds in check. To me, an independent Corsica sounds like another Albania.
@@codycody4145 no it does'nt , Albania has a birth rate of 1.5 child per woman and is currently hemoraging population, minus 1.2 % population growth every year. why don't you all check before typing ? Corsica has 1.4 birthrate , the lowest in France, half of the population would leave if it declared independance, because believe it or not France is a great country ,stable, democratic, where you get "free" healthcare, free education, social support, social housing, an industry ,an army.
@@backintimealwyn5736 People care more about their ethnic identity rather than "free" healthcare and other "benefits". France should allow local nations to flourish by going confederacy instead of what France is now. Allowing Bretons, Occitanians and other ethnicities get freedom that they deserve.
@@Mot1956 You underestimate strength the french identity. We'll talk about that again when Indonesia fress Java , Japan fress sihkoku, the US frees new york and Algeria frees Kabylia. Until then, mêle toi de tes fesses.
9:15 I remember that. Some of my friends helped block my middle school but in only lasted like 2 days and we had to get back to studying. I have to say everybody in the school wanted to participate in those demonstrations. I believe even a french dude in the school threw a brick on a police car, breaking its windshield. I wanted to join them and even though my father had done the same thing during his youth, it was more my mother who thought i was too young to participate in that. One of the guy i knew in the school got shot in the throat by those super dangerous grenades that the french police uses. Even though he was an asshole we all felt bad for him cause the wound was really severe
Hello from a 19 y/o Corsican, first of all I really enjoyed your video, some moments made me laugh because I know what you're talking about like the spray paint, the bullets holes etc. This is just my opinion but I'd say that the 20-25 y/o range is leaving the island because of the cost of life on our island and I'm sure that you saw this on your vacation especially in Ajaccio or Corte even if Corte is still better in price/quality, in addition to this is the rise of price for land here, if you don't have a family land or you don't have enough money to buy a buildable land don't expect to be able to build your house here, we know it and it's been a big problem for the past years, the education is also a big part of it BUT, in Corte we have a good "fac" and "iut" where I'm currently studying which teach a lot of the "basic" superior education, but in order to do architectural studies you need to go to Montpellier, Paris etc.. BUT, for most of the students they'll find themselves coming back to Corsica at the end of their studies. For the bombing part of the video it's important to say that for most of the explosions they occur when "speculation" is detected, I won't take a risk by saying that. and I'm pretty sure that if you went to small villages like Tallano, Levie, you've seen a lot of houses, not modern one that are ruining the architectural patrimony and YES this is a big concern this is also why a lot of these villas are destroyed, btw not causing deaths.
Ho avuto la fortuna di parlare con un paio di ragazzi che dalla Corsica sono venuti a visitare la Calabria, parlando con loro ci siamo resi conto di quanto siamo simili, più che con i francesi mi è stato detto.
Hello, as far as I am aware, no. Sardinia was actually apart of the kingdom that united Italy and had been for centuries, so the island is much rather patriotic to Italy and proud of its history of creating Italy. Aswell as this, Sardinia is treated well by the Italian government and has always been inhabited by Italians, unlike Corsica which was taken by force and forced to take on a French identity. Tl;dr, no, Sardinia is the opposite due it always being Italian.
I doubt it. Some italian regions desire some level of autonomy as for long time they've been their own independent states until 1861. but they all share wider Italian identity and Italian culture while Corsica is in French world but actually is Italian
Our movements of indipendence are manly just a minorance altought most of our citizen feels very patriotic for their region and think of them as first sardininians and then Italians
That's just plain wrong that French is a second language in Corsica, many polls have shown that about 25% of corsicans can actually speak the regional language and barely 50% understand it, and it's going lower and lower every year as it's mostly old people A simple google search could've told you that, I don't dare to watch whatever other bullshit you might have said in the rest of the video
Enjoyable video, could we get a history of Cyprus vid at some point ? Visited there recently and have been interested in the modern history of the island.
This feels like a great and well researched video but I would like to make a few corrections. Corsican is not a first language anymore, having falled from fashion in favor of french near the end of the XIXth and even the independantists of today learned it as a second language and speak it with a strong french accent (According to my father, the speeches made in corsican by autonomists have nothing to see with what his native grandfather would speak). Second, Colonna did not kill a politician but a high profile civil servant. Third, it should have been noted that autonomists have gained a lot of strength in polls, making it plausible that more autonomy could be given to Corsica, but that means a new organization of the territories and a few more power, not independence. The actual support for independence is pretty low despite the noisy independentist movement, and sovereignity seems like a bad idea for the reasons quoted in the video. So in the end I think independence for Corsica is highly improbable in the long term.
Was about to made my own comment about correction, but I'll add onto yours since you already did a good job About Yvan Colonna, although it was confirmed that he was the boss of group responsible for the assassination, we don't know which member of the group fired on Erignac cause none of them wanted to give out their pairs. Colonna still got condamned to life sentence for killing even tho there is no proof he pulled the trigger, that's why there is still a big support behind him against the "flawed french justice system".
0:59 You’re wrong. As a Parisian partly originating from Corsica, I can tell you that no one speaks Corsican on a regular basis. Everyone speaks French. People still spoke Corsican in the 1960s but it slowly faded through the 70s and 80s. Very few corsicans know how to speak the language, but many use some loan words from Corsican (I.e pinzutti for tourists). The people who speak corsican on a regular basis are the pastors, farmers etc who live in the mountains, or knowledgeable people such as Corsican scholars, historians and educated folk who wish to renew the use of the language. It would be great if corsicans did speak to each other in Corsican, but that’s just not true. Ever since France banned regional languages from being taught as a second language. Today it’s coming back though, so we could see a change.
It has to be considered though, that if Corsica gains independence, they are no longer a part of the EU, and it is unlikely they will be able to join in or even get special treatment, because those kinds of measures have to be approved by all member states, including France and countries like Spain, which has its own independence struggles in Catalonia. Now imagine you are an EU citizen deciding where to spend your Summer vacation. You want to visit the Mediterranean Sea and really like some of the remote, rugged places it has to offer. Do you visit Corsica and go through the bureaucratic struggle of getting a visa and possible border controls at the airport/harbor, or do you pick Sardinia as your destination instead? It has the same terrain and weather, the culture is similar and since you travel inside the EU you avoid any hassle international travel usually contains.
Reminds me of Western NY and it's attitude towards NYC. Many from WNY want to separate from NYC and become its own state. A lot of the same issues presented in this video applies to WNY and NYC as well
@@eyzmin Buffalo and Rochester wouldn't be as bad as NYC, Byron Brown won the mayoral election in Buffalo and most his support came from Republicans and moderates. And Buffalo and Rochester have much smaller populations than NYC, meaning they wouldn't have nearly as much control over the state. WNY would be a purple state instead of a deep blue state.
Fun fact: the West of Puerto Rico has a shit load of Corsicans. The reason the Corsicans came here was because places like Yauco, San German, Sabana Grande etc.. look very similar to Corsica. Now I see that we are extremely similar
It is quite fascinating how Western Europeans lecture endlessly at other nations particularly in Eastern Europe and Asia about "self determination" and respecting minority rights when they have such a terrible track record of it within their own countries. Britain, France, Spain and Italy have all been pretty miserable at giving fair treatment to their sizable minority populations, and really, for what?
Corsica would collapse without France. As you said no economy aside from Tourism and France and Spain would never let Corsica join the EU. No EU> no easy travel access, No official French langauge> loss of the majority of Tourists . No Tourism economy> even fewer young people at home. Also collapse of only other economy source construction industry for tourism purposes.
@@Polska_Edits It would do better than independent, italy has a well developed tourism economy, and could probably accomodate Corsica into it, but it'd take time and but that's not what the FLNC want.
They say the same about every region that wants to become autonomous, and yet there's an island called Malta without resources that exist in the Mediterranean. Stop being a fascist fighting against the self-determination of people.
I'm very familiar with the island, and honestly, I can't really see it becoming a country, young people are leaving, the modern Corsican family is rarely speaking Corsican and some even live in France 3/4 of the year. For it to become a country and use Corsican as the official language just seems impossible, one reason being that ditching the french language would little by little make French tourists go away, and when you're relying so much on tourism, you can't really afford to lose tourists like that... (Also, great choice coming to Corsica during Spring, that's the best season to visit it)
«Siamo Còrsi per nascita e sentimenti, ma prima di tutto ci sentiamo Italiani per lingua, costumi e tradizioni... E tutti gli Italiani sono fratelli e solidali davanti alla Storia e davanti a Dio... Come Còrsi non vogliamo essere né servi e né "ribelli" e come Italiani abbiamo il diritto di essere trattati uguale agli altri Italiani... O non saremo nulla... O vinceremo con l'onore o moriremo con le armi in mano... La nostra guerra di liberazione è santa e giusta, come santo e giusto è il nome di Dio, e qui, nei nostri monti, spunterà per l'Italia il sole della libertà.» (Pasquale Paoli a Napoli nel 1750[1
It's history reminds me of my own minority. Our island was constantly changing hands among northern European countries and we also have our own language
Well, this kind of cuisine, archiecteture and landcapes are found all over southern France, so yes, It does feel French. France is also a Mediterranean country, people seem to forget that...
south France had also a rich culture filled with Romans, Greek history and other cultures coming via the sea - but France feels or is mostly Paris centered
@@HippasosofMetapontum May be from an abroad perspective, but France is made of a lot of different culture, Bretons, Basque, Alsactians, Occitans, etc, so I would even say that Paris dont feel French because it is its own world and French who are not from Paris have a very different culture
@@HippasosofMetapontum Southern french here, we do think as steretypical parisian cuisine or architecture as our culture (well not all of us), but not as much as our local cuisine and culture (french riviera occitan in my case), which as OP said is very mediterranean and may seem "italian" from an outside point of view. We are indeed Paris centered politically and administratively, but not so much to our liking.
@@Glamizxbecause it literally was? In the 1800s up to 50% of the southern French population was italo-french which then got integrated and had the population declining. I as a Sardinian still know myself several French families that speak Italian and live near Nice/Nizza and Lyon/Lione
@@Boretheory i’m from there, I would know, we did belong to Italy but that’s not the reason why our local culture is so close to Italian culture. Our region belonged to Italy, to France, to Monaco, been independent etc … I have ancestors all from my home region but depending on their period they have different citizenships, Italian included, even monégasque. The culture here was always like that, it’s just southern European and occitan, it would have been even without belonging to Italy. I don’t say that to reject Italy, I also have actual Italian origins from somewhere else and I love this country.
0:12 Le signe en haut a gauche est un signe pour indiquer si la Maison a ete visité suite a une tempête ou une inondation. Ou autre. On peut trouver des signes similaires en floride aux Etats unis d'Amérique ;) Ce n'est pas un signe de liberté ou autre
Corsica is Italian, it's culture, it's language. Not saying they should be part of Italy, just they had loads of Italian influence and they should perhaps be their own thing, even with Sanrdinia perhaps, since they are both culturally very similar. regardless much of the graffiti is very understandable to me, an Italian speaker.
Since currently less than half of the population can understand corsican, and even less can actually speak it fluently, i doubt that corsica is still italian, every day italian influences weaken and now only old people could be considered culturally more italisn than french Also idk about corsica being it s own thing, the economy isn t nearly strong enoughs to sustain itself and without europe subvention they seem doom to fail
@@TheGirard62 I would be really surprised if you said you support israel then? They came back after 1000s of years. When do you actually wipe a culture? How many generations does it take in your own opinion?
how is corsica italian? corsica and italy are both mediterranean, just like southern france is mediterranenan, that doesnt mean they're all the same thing! in that case all nordic countries should be one! your statement makes no sense !
Fun fact, Corsica wrote the first "red army is the strongest" version. It's called Borgu, check it out. Anyway, love to my corsican brothers from italy❤
@@shakya00 corsican language is literally italian. I could listen to a film made from corsican and understand everything. On the other hand french people wouldn't since their language differs greatly. It's true they feel more autonomously but if they had to choose between france and italy the answer is very clear...
@@waterwatereverywhere3574 They already rebelled against Genoa to get their independence and there is no Corsican that feel Italian at all X) You don't know Corsicans. They are proud people and usually identify as Corsican and/or French but never italian. I don't understand why you Italians are so hateful of France and want to appropriate everything from us that you can...Corsicans got what they wanted, being part of France but having more autonomy, that's why Corsican terrorist groups disappeared. And spoiler alert, Corsicans have French as their mother tongue (contrary to what is said in the video). They all speak French and a minority only, speak Corsican. And Corsican itself, although deeply influenced by Italian languages for a long time, is now more influenced by French and evolves independently from Italian for a few centuries. And as you probably know, French and Italian themselves are very close languages.
Who is h0ser I’ve never heard of them sounds like our friend hoser Ok just looked it up h0ser is hosers dad but past away right when hoser was born a sad story
So France can annex Flanders back in ? It was always a part of France before the revolution weirdly it's Wallonia that speaks French when they were only part of France during 30 years after the revolution
Corsica had referendums for independence but people were conscious it couldn't sustain without mainland money. Instead they got autonomy which France generally doesn't allow on metropolitan territories.
I mean people would still travel there and is not like France really gives a fuck regarding the development of the region in sectors other than tourism.
@@fideliofox1682it would be a pain to do a Visa just for it when you can simply go to southern France and help the economy of your country by doing so instead of going in Corsica.
As a general rule, if people living in some area want to be independent, they should be. But this requires that actually a majority (or preferably a strong majority, like more than 65%) want to be independent, and that this can be established by sufficiently unbiased polls or referendums, and one should very seriously consider what benefits exactly independence is going to give them, and what they are going to lose if they go independent. For example, an independent Corsica would make it easier for them to promote the Corsican language and culture... but they are already pretty free to do those things, and meanwhile, they would lose all the subsidies, trade rights, other benefits that come with being a part of France. Same goes for other movements, like Catalan and Scottish independence. Sure, you can be independent if you have good cause and massive support for it, but one should be clear-eyed about what exactly the consequences of it are and what exactly you are hoping to get out of it, while honestly evaluating how likely you are to get them. One should not support independence just because it is some sort of "romantic" ideal that feels good. Otherwise you will end up with something like Brexit, except probably even worse.
It would be much worse than brexit. The UK is a nation state , britons did'nt lose their rights to : pensions, social security, access to healthcare, funding for schools, fundings for roads, fundings for energy, fundings for hospitals . Corsica is a burden for the french economy always has been , mafia ridden, xenophobic, the french tax payers pays for everything. And honestly ... let them have their independance, this sh** is geting old now. All they produce are chestnuts , sausages and cheeze. It should be interesting. I bet you 80% of the population runs away form the island before independance is completed.
Subsidies? Ever heard what the IMF, UN funds and other developed countries' foreign aid are? There are many countries relying on those for now and others who used to rely on them but not anymore, does it justify anything, will you go stopping Gabon from gaining independence, stop Estonia from gaining independence? Not to forget all their taxes revenues would come to Corsica and solely Corsica to be used for their specific problems without having to wait for the master nation to approve. Not to forget they could then get a better control (share of money) of their tourism industry the same way Carribean nations are. African peoples could also promote freely their culture under colonial empires, does it change anything other than the dominating nation still reaping the rewards from it because people think "It's France so this is regional french culture"? With also a less submissive and more ambitious mentality taking place with liberation, it would help bussiness and investments. Ever heard how trade deals don't suddenly stop being negociated and new ones can be made? Another imperialist argument. How dare you compare independence movements in any capacity to Brexit, if nothing else, it justifies the liberation of the subjucated nations of Greater England as it was forced against them because England said so.
@@Game_Hero mhh. Do you think France should give citizenship to the 80% of corsicans who will run to France (their country) after independance? Funny how gabonese peopel beg for visas in western countries by the way. Not so keen on being freed from " the master " huh? It great to be french, I love it.
Great video. Never knew about the island. Makes me want to look into the Corsican language and hear what it sounds like. Footage a little overexposed. Don't know if fixed in future videos, but sure hope it is. Let me know if you're editing in fcpx
Whenever I used to play Civilization (4-5) I always liked custom naming my empire Corsica & I’d name my settlements after the real towns on the island. So this news is interesting, ironic & cool haha
Seeing the mess that is going on in France now, I would say that something wrong has been done by France towards its possessions. Nobody has the magic wand to solve or mitigate these problems, but something should be done. In South Tyrol a lot has been done in this sense and it seems that it works quite well. There is ethnic proportionality and all jobs in administration, health care, education, courts, etc. they are divided according to the percentages of membership of the different ethnic groups. It was a beginning, also because it is not clear how many true Corsicans are left.
It is part of the package of agreements between the Italian state and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. All employees who work in the public administration are divided into proportional parts based on the percentage of membership of the various ethnic groups present on the spot. I note that the aforementioned province has the highest per capita income in Italy.
As a Canadian, we know more than anyone that whenever a group's name starts with "Frontière de Libération de..." the government should be very concerned
Corsicans will likely face the same difficulties as the people in Catalonia over in Spain, or Scotland over here in the UK. Massive opposition from the leadership at the mere notion of independence. And you know, I think a lot of the time those leaders don't actually care all that much if these regions are a part of their country. They just don't want to be known as the ones who were in office when their nation got smaller 😅
Maybe, i can definelty see the similarities between Scotland, Catalonia & Corsica. To me it seems like the leaders of these countries with incredible influence want to retain that influence and realize that if one part of their country gets independence it may create a chain reaction. (Ex: Spain with Catalonia and Basque, UK with Scotland and then Northern Ireland, France with Corsica and Reuníon or some other Overseas Department) This will have incredibly negative impacts on their economy, politics, demographics and population
Also support of indpendance in Corsica is much lower than in Scotland and Catalonia. They are also not in the same category in economic and demographic importance (Scotland 5,5M and Catalonia 7,5M population against Corsica 300k population...)
@@neptune1525 I didn't say it was rich without spain, I didn't say it will become independant. You might want to check your arrogance level and stop insulting people on internet.
I know someone who works in Corsican politics so I can tell you. Their regional government is about to send out its proposal to become an autonomous territory (ie, not a new country).
Corsican independantists are nowhere near as serious as Catalan independantists as they wouldn't gain much with independance, Corsica is poorer than the french average.
@antoniousai1989 poorer because of occupation 😂 It would like saying "Nevada should be independant because it was stolen from Mexico and is poorer than California".
@@antoniousai1989 money is a big factor. Sure you'll always find people nostalgic about events 300 years ago, but to get an electoral critical mass the usual political issues cannot be ignored.
@@antoniousai1989 its poor because they dont have any natural ressource , too many montain to develop farming feed themself , too small do developp a big enough manufacturing industry, their population is aging too as the younger people leave as soon as possible , their only income is tourism and France sending them money
It seems you forgot the fact that France is a "socialist" nation. Huge fundings (1/3 of France GDP) going from the richest to the poorest parts of France, fueling education, healthcare, infrastructures, unemployement benefits, housing etc... Add to this that Corsica is the oldest region of France (average age 50), you can easily imagine the catastrophy which would wait the corsicans if they were to be independent. Now being french myself I support all calls of independence in France (as long as the majority wants it). But really what corsica (and all regions of France really) need is autonomy. The central power in Paris has been a destroyer of cultures since the french revolution and teh victory of the jacobins.
Anyone here who happens to know the name of the gun that that freedom fighter or terrorist (depending on your perspective) is holding at 7:44? The design looks really cool
Corsican food isn't "more italian than french" it's just mediterranean. For a brit or an american it may look italian but corsican food is an authentic mediterannean cuisine on its own like what you have in Greece for example, (but not in Sardinia because it is way more italian)
Problem with analyzing it from the outside is that the pinzutu (continentals) don't understand that corsica isn't asking to become it's own country, most see themselves as being french people overall, the mouvements mostly are a reflection of what we have throughout the country, they are asking for a change in the system we have, rule from paris has choked most of us and has destroyed many of the regions
AND almost successfully obliterated your cultural heritage, language included, to prevent you to ever come back under the Italian cultural influence.. Just look at how few mobility connections of pepole and goods are active between Corsica and Italy despite being almost surrounded by it..
Saying "Corsica should be part of France because Napoleon was born there" is like saying "Austria should be part of Germany because Hitler was born there".
Just imagine the small country not being part of the EU and the common marked. Imports would be more costly and tourists would drop. What a great deal for Corsica. In the end, money rules the world
I think there might be a mistake at 2:28 - "Corsica only makes up 16% of the French GDP". I would have honestly though it'd be a lot lower. 16% of the nation's entire GDP would be a massive success. Can anyone confirm?
It would be quite ironic given the island's most famous resident, Napoleon, created the first French empire and became that nation's go to historic figure but who knows.
France and Corsica about to fight each other in the future over Napoleon's Legacy XD
Edit: just like Greece & North Macedonia with Alexander the Great today
@@echidnanatsuki882What claim does a Slavic nation even have on a guy born in a Greek speaking village in what is now Greece?
Sorry corsica, your mabye autonomy, no independent
@@theultimatefreak666 exactly
Well hitler was Austrian and Stalin was Georgian
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The language spoken in Corsica is a variant of the Italian spoken in Tuscany long time ago. The Tuscan Italian is the base for the standard Italian. So if you speak standard Italian, but not French, you can still have a quite normal conversation with Corsican people speaking Corsican, unlike with Sardinians. I tried myself.
lmao you just reminded me southern sardinians talk like yoda in italian thank you
@@mqw.4377Sardinians still live in the stone age ngl
@@unskilledwarthunderplayer4011 ugabuga ma cracker bread, ma casu marzu, ma cannonau, simple as
@@unskilledwarthunderplayer4011 only in the most rural parts, it's actually not that bad. Also we speak a variant of Corsican in northern Sardinia so we can understand each other, and even in the provinces where they speak it not many people speak Sardinian anymore
The Sardinian language alone actually forms its own main branch of the romance languages, so that's not really surprising.
Corsican here, very nice of you to make a video about our small island. I work in the tourism industry and all my colleagues are from "Le continent" (mainland france). Young corsicans are not very interested in the tourism business. I live in Aiacciu (Ajaccio) and the tourist influx is bigger sometimes than the entire population of the island which is crazy. Adding to that the giant cruise boats that spew out massive amount of people and the pollution it generates... each passing years i'm more and more keen on leaving the tourism industry.
Avvèdeci !
The question really is then what do these young Corsicans do if not for the tourism sector?
@@jevinliu4658 having their own daily life :P there are many jobs you need to keep up a city dont you think
@@jevinliu4658 well we can do a lot of things that can help our island and people to live a good life. Mass tourisme is a trap
Then you will be very sorry. Things cost money. There's no manufacturing or industry otherwise
Love the flag. Not offended in the least. We were told the moors were not black but this flag says otherwise. Is this a depiction of a moor?? What's the story behind it if u care to explain. Thx
You actually got a part wrong hoser.
The Genoa didn't sell Corsica to France because they were tired of the civil war, they gave them to France because they owed France war reparations and they didn't exactly have the money to pay it off so instead they gave them Corsica instead.
It's also important to note that both of Napoleon's parents were Italian and hadn't been on the island too long when they made and gave birth to Napoleon
It's mainly because Genoa was unable to control the island and face the rebellion... so it was convenient to "sell" the island to France.
Lets call putin..ukrainr is not tjr cible anymore
Lets call uk...🎉🎉🎉
Pasquale Paoli was an underrated genius. He just casually wrote the first democratic constitution of the modern age (that was more democratic than the US one). He just did it.
Thats because the U.S. isn't a democracy lmao, it merely has democratic policies-so any actually democratic structure is going to be far more democratic than the U.S.-Founding Fathers avoided democracy bc they knew it would lead to the same populist tactics that Ceaser fucking used; ALSO why they didn't want a 2-party system, as it would/has led to populist tactics as seen in modern times. Look at Andrew Yang and the other politicians' new party-both 'standard' sides are already trying to smear it even though it's comprised of both said fucking sides. Why? Because the Forward party is founded on solutions and public service, not the populist tactics of political generalizations tied with 'moral superiority'
Yep but many people don't know that he said that corsicans are italian
More democratic at the time?
@@kevinp.h157 definitely
*It would be hard to write one less democratic than the US, given that the electoral college and their 'first past the post' voting system makes it virtually impossible for any third parties to win elections.*
I wouldn't call the island "small" it's pretty damn large for an island I think.
I always thought Corsica and Sandinia looks very cool on a map. Uniquely beautiful.
its decent size but got lot of mountain so not much place to build house or farmed
This! I fucking hate it when youtubers call islands with thousands of square kilometres to be small. Some youtubers even call Java small lol. Yeah small enough to be larger than almost half of the states in the US.
These statements are frequently followed by statements that diminish the state of the island, its inhabitants or its species richness/land fertility.
@@thegoodgunnerterrace farms wtf. They can go semi-Inca.
@@artemesiagentileschini7348Corsica is small. Compare it to Greenland, Canada, Russia, China India etc.
@@saagrest Canada, Russia, China, India: famously islands. Also, the biggest countries in the world, with the _vast_ majority of countries being a lot smaller.
Great video but there is a mistake, most Corsicans speak french as their first langage, in fact only 20% of the population of the island speak corsican on a daily basis
Sounds bad if you ask me
Well, that is due to reforms that the French government took to prevent people from speaking Corsican. We lost a lot of our culture, but there's still a lot of households that speak Corsican. We just happen to also speak French.
I wonder if the "Tu serais Français!" way of schooling that was used until the late '80s had something to do with it... disincentivizing local languages by fines, mockery, delegitimization, ridicule, corporal punishment at school... ;)
@@LaRévolutionSociale whatever it is, never let your culture and language let down!
@@LaRévolutionSocialesame thing happened to us cajuns in Louisiana. Our grandparents was punished for speaking french at school and they made it hard to get a job unless you spoke English. So in turn they didn't teach their children...our language is almost eradicated.
I live in Sicily (Italy's deep south), and I can really easily understand Corsican, it is very similar to the dialect spoken in my region
its just very very similar to italian
I know siciliano I’m Sicilian but it’s more similar to Italian è toscano (it’s Tuscan )
@@justyasuhito what?
@thngvbts5182 Not only similar, it is a language of the italian-dalmatian language family. It actually is a sister language to the dialects from tuscany, from where you get standart italian
no, non c' entra un tubo con il siciliano... il corso è una variante (isolata e antica) del toscano, quindi se lo capisci non è certo per il siciliano, ma perché conosci l' italiano
I am french and I went in Corsica once, the thing is everything is incredibly beautiful there, literally mind blowing me all the time.
for real I am not French but I never even thought about it 😂 gonna have to travel there
Problem is, if France lets Corsica become independent, other groups within its borders may wanna start leaving. And even if they let them, I don't think spain would accept it as a country, since that would get ethnic groups like basques (on both sides of the pyrenees, cause some are in south-western France) and catalans to start pushing for their own independence even more.
Yeah, and where's the problem with that? Do you like the Vienna Congress so much that you have to keep old borders intact no matter what?
Every nation has the right to rule itself. Also if Spain doesn´t recognise an independent Corsica, it doesn´t really matter for Corsica. The same way Kosovans don´t care that Spain doesn´t recognise them.
@@antoniousai1989 Well the big majority of corsican feel french. They even said ''no'' in the referendum on being autonomous
All these so called "independent" statelets are just gonna whore themselves out to a big daddy to protect them. Most likely the US.
Not only into Spain, it can spill to Italy, Belgium or Germany
I'm pretty doubtful. Small, split up population with little way to really organize and it's so reliant on the aid of others. For it to be independent, it would either have to live with all the repercussions it already deals with on it's own before some other nation bails it out or 100's of years of history, especially in the lack of fields and jobs, would need to change drastically.
Also a sizable french population lives on the Island, that place became very attractive overtime.
yea i completely agree usaully these are bad things for a country so I doubt it would survive as and independent country.
@@oslo0323orsicans hate people settling in their islands , even tourists , and also it will most likely be a place where pirates and migrants will go like the old days
That's not an issue at all, Hong kong and Singapore area also like that and thy're the richest places on earth. Stop repeating that conservative lie. But I wouldn't expect someone who watches anime in their mom's basement to know about that.
@@huguesdepayens807 Hong Kong is no longer independent it is part of china and Singapore has alot of trade due to its area in the world it's in a very important straight but corsica
1. Wouldn't be in the EU so that would be a problem to it's trade
2. It's people are dived and it's main way of making money is run by mostly non Corsicans
Fun fact: I can draw my ancestry back to a Corsican boxer that would go on to fight in the revolutionary war and eventually settle in North Carolina.
USA! USA! USA!
You’re descended from a Chad
I have a similar thing. One of my ancestors was an Irish boxer who moved to the US because there was more competition here. He then fought in the civil war and settled in Illinois
Raging Bull (1793)
That’s great for you man! 🎉
Imagine Corsica (or any Mediterranean Island) 5 Million years ago. It would have been a lonely, desert mountain in the middle of the deepest, driest region on Earth - the vast salt pans of the Mediterranean basin. The shores of what is the Mediterranean sea today would have been huge cliffs, dropping down almost 5 km deep, and at the bottom the temperature would have reached nearly 80 Celsius - a cauldron of hot air that only extremophile bacteria could survive in. The vast rivers of North Africa and Southern Europe - the Po, the Rhone, the Nile - all would have evaporated before reaching the bottom of this, the deepest canyon in the Solar system. Whatever life clung to Monte Corsica would have been completely isolated from the mainland, either leftovers from the last time that basin had been a sea or descendants of flying animals. Island dwarfism and gigantism were also at play: giant flightless geese up to 3 meters tall with club-like bones set in their wings for slapping other males to chase them off during the breeding season, dormice the size of housecats, a hedgehog relative turned pursuit carnivore the size of a puma, elephants the size of donkeys, the isolated mountains of this vast salt pan were host to some of the strangest species, long cut off from the mainland and left to occupy niches undisturbed for millions of years.
And then came the flood - a large earthquake shook the Straights of Gibraltar, opening at first a tiny crack in the land, but it was enough for the Atlantic Ocean to start pouring through. The resulting flow must have been the most powerful movement of water in Earth's history, with water being shot into the salt pan close to the speed of sound and falling for over a kilometer down to the valley floor below. The native species of Corsica must have seen a vast plume of mist rising on the horizon, and heard the thunder of the greatest waterfall to have ever existed, even from hundreds of kilometers away. Some estimate that the entire basin filled in under a century - one century, to fill the entire sea!
Fascinating read.
Is this real?
@@mr.astronuts3825 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood
great read! thanks for sharing!
thanks for this! Simply fascinating.
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Other fun fact: Napoleon didn't speak French until he was a teen. Only Italian and Corsican (which are nearly identical).
For any Italian, it's very easy to read those anti-French graffiti, as well as Paoli's constitution.
Not many people were speaking French in france at that time. It was the language of the nobility. Until ww1, most french would speak the language of their region.
@@afrenchdude5331 And Napoleon didn't speak Italian.
@@shakya00 *cries in French*
@@hieronymus0315 I'm just stating a fact. Napoleon spoke Corsican as his mother tongue and then learned French. He never learned Italian.
There is nothing ''fun'' in this fact. Many French subjects of the French Crown didn't speak french at the time of Napoleon birth, but their local dialect or even language in fact everywhere a part Paris and central France. Dozen of millions of them. Only in the court or for central government affairs was French to be used. This changed after the Revolution, in the 19th century when French was used as the only official language for everything and the public schools acted to make it so.
Bullets on road signs are just local hunters rehearsing their aiming skills, you see a lot of those in Italy
You can see it everywhere in France as well.
How freaking disrespectful can the hunters be?
most of them are mede 50 years ago by old hunters@@yannick7230
What a waste of metal.
@@nicktamer4969 last century, it was everywhere, don't tell lies
holy shit hoser making a video about the country I live in, incredible
What do locals generally feel about tourism and the FLNC?
replying so i get a notification when someone answers the question
@@Anonymous-pf1mbGood idea
@@Anonymous-pf1mb doing the same (500 iq move)
@@Anonymous-pf1mb me 2
I wish you could do more videos on Africa but this was equally as entertaining, informative, and captivating
Being part of the EU may have made these new countries possible based on regional identities… BUT, and it’s a big ‘but’, Spain will definitely not allow a breakaway country to become grandfathered into the EU. Spain has made it plain they wouldn’t allow it for Scotland-they were also cagey about allowing Scotland in after a formal application process as well.
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the big difference usually is geografical proximity, all the example ppl can tell all over europe will have this big difference corsica is way closer to italy than to france, litteraly to liguria and tuscany, to be france make so much less sense, if it was indipendend or an italian regions it could share even logistic and infrastructure with sardinia which is the way it was under roman republic it was "sardinia and corsica" provence till all became italian provence.
As a scot this is what i have heard as well, spain will only let new nations join if they get the approval of the parent state, although in the case of catalonia i think its just a scare tactic i can't imagine it would be politically tenable for spain to keep it up although I could be wrong
@@Ruiseal I think Spain just don't want to set any precedents since they have 2 rather notorious and long standing separatist/independence movements.
I can't imagine Corsica surviving long without France unless they decide to become a tax haven.
Yeah ,it's not self-sufficient ,and the majority of the population isn't even Corsican
@@plumebrise4801 the majority of the population relies on state wellfare , and their birthrate is catastrophic. Bytheway, ti's strange how nationalism is celebrated in some cases but not other cases. The nation state of Ukraine is sacred, the nation state of France is to be destroyed. Corsica should have it's independance because it has a local language spoken by 20% of the population, like 70% of France by the way, but Dombass and Crimea should'nt when they have 90% russian speaking populations. And why the hell americans don't chose to focus on Hawai's independance from the US colonizer ... huh?
@backintimealwyn5736 also applies to Kosovo. The Kosovo situation is basically the same thing that's happening in Ukraine right now, yet depending on what side you are on, you will only support one or the other.
If we really were to divide the world into perfectly ethnic lines, then the whole world will just succumb to tribalism and even more wars/disagreements. It's also extremely counter productive to create even more borders and more little confined bureaucracies in such a globalized world.
People often support these movements without actually understanding what that entails.
I think only oppressed minorities and colonies should be given the right to self determination. Not Scotland, Catalonia, nor corsica are oppressed minorities, they all have autonomy and have the same rights as the rest of the people in the country they are in.
it's exactly why it won't happen Corsicans loves France and have too much to lose as well as mafia that would take control like in all others independent islands, ldlotlc click bait video.
@@backintimealwyn5736i think for Donbass the problem isn't if they are or not Russian but why there is so much Russian speaking people there. In Corsica they were here a long long time ago even during the roman I believe. But in the Donbass they got here when Ukrainian suffered a genocide or at least one of the worst starving of USSR history. Same goes for Crimea the population of origin got deported and replaced by poor Russians.
Corsica: We’re declaring independence.
Genoa: Hey France do you want to buy this island?
France: Sure thing.
Narrator: Just in time for Napoleon to be born French.
Corsicans: Go home French soldiers.
Young Napoleon: Yeah they said it.
Carlo Bonaparte: I embrace my French bros.
Young Napoleon: Oh look at me I’m dad. I wear powdered wigs, silverbuckle shoes and I’m a traitor to the Corsican people.
Carlo: Go to your room Napoleon!
Napoleon: No you go to your room dad!
Carlo: Ok
Oversimplified hasn't uploaded in 9 months. Hope a new vid is dropping soon
@@timjobs3634I think so. I noticed that all his videos seem to upload either at the very beginning or very end of the month so maybe a week or two from now
@@PhilHug1will it be second Punic war?
I mean, Napoleon's parents were actually born in mainland France and he spent a lot of time studying there so it kinda makes sense that he felt more French than Corsican, even though he struggled to speak French properly.
Also, it doesn't really have anything to do with what I wrote but I want to mention a little fun fact which is his baptism certificate being written neither in French nor Corsican but straight up Italian.
Well he's called oversimplified for a reason . It didn't really go like that . Genova offered France ports on the island but this agreement was not respected and the island was overrun by French troops
Really weird to me that corsica isnt even an autonimous region
France is a fascist country if we want to discuss autonomism. They are extremely centralized in politics and defend the concept of unitarian France to death.
@@shoto7643yes and no.
Just figure that France is a very centralized nation that like administrative uniformity, but that it never fully worked in Corsica, for reasons reaching from geography to popular sentiment.
It has a parliament but it has very little influence and is mostly tasked with local budget and administrative degree, really it just is a regional council like those you find anywhere else in France, it just given itself the title of "parlement" as a political statement.
Concerning its administrative status, it is considered a region of métropolitan France and hold the same status as aquitaine or normandy, albeit it has been given some limited autonomy, just enough to stop corsicans to demonstrate
they have special status like peurto rico, and like peutro rico if they ever get full economic automony they are in for decades of crippling poverty without their big momma country pumping them full of subsidies and tourist (although peurto rico is actually kinda different and would flourish much better if it doesnt get sanctioned like Cuba)
@@shoto7643
You are exaggerating the powers of that parliament and of those supposedly high statuses of autonomy. The commentator is correct, it’s more akin to Normandy’s forms of autonomy with barely any political differences. The idea of having a parliament or councils is more of a sweet-nothing rather then a substantial degree of autonomy. In fact, that’s exactly why they vote in federal elections even as a special territory.
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I didn’t mean to say federal I understand that France is a unitary state. I’m saying it is more akin to any other regional council rather then a more powerful political entity, i did not mean literally normandy has more autonomy or a special status. Not only that, they vote in both legislative and presidential elections, additionally Martinique is actually given the same special status as Corsica - your argument of them being “less autonomous” is actually self defeating because their governments are both given special privileges under the same constitutional provision. This is why they also have a assembly, although they do not have executive councils (very little difference in what’s being managed) as a difference of political autonomy it is nothing. Tell me a policy that Corsica could pass but Martinique couldn’t with their assemblies. The answer is that there is no difference, both are single territorial collectivities.
Puerto Rico and Cuba had a significant amount if Corsican migration in the 19th century. The fricative sound in some Puerto Rican Spanish is said to have stemmed from french speakers. Many people have french and Italian last names as well. The city of Ponce and town of Yauco have landmarks made in honor of Corsican migrants who enriched the island culture.
Yeah there was Corsican immigration to Caribbean (Mainly Cuba ,Puerto Rico ,Dominican Republic) ,Central America ,France mainland and Italy ,Corsica is also one of the territory that started losing population the earliest (Since like the 1830's I believe ,from that point ,they would falsify their census data ,making it seem that they gained habitant ,all that to get more fund from the French government , they would get caught falsifying the 1946 Census (Or it was the 1954 one ?) and then the data of all the previous census have been corrected) It's like what the Chinese subdivisions are doing) ,basically the Corsican were migrating ,but their pyramid age ... At the time ,they were the territory with the lowest share of young in the population (Those younger than 15 years old) while also having the highest share of old in their population (Those older than 65 years old)
As a British person, Corsica has quite an influencial if subtle role in our History because it encouraged greater cooperation between monarchist and Parliamentary forces, leading to the Parliamentary-Monarchy the UK has which is so strong.
@@iLovettGolf it was a kind of political loophole deal, I think France wanted to devolve it part of france proper, Britain was fighting france at the time and invaded the island and took official control for like a year before ceding it back to independence.
The "United" Kingdom is a joke.
It's in the same position as Cornwall, SHOULD be its own thing but doesn't have the money for it
Can't believe you went to Corsica and almost didn't make a video there! I do totally get wanting to make it count as a business trip though
I would have thought the ubiquitous graffiti and the danger posed by the aggravated people living there would diminish its status as a tourist destination, but a lot of tourist destinations are like that, actually
cough cough Mexico
Cough cough Jamaica
i'm more surprised that of all language they wrote it in english instead of corsica or french.
@@monterrang1same
Being a tourist destination often drives up the cost of living massively, greatly hurting the local population, especially in a case like this where foreigners reap the profits of said tourism. Armed resistance is the usual response by said local population, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, always with lots of graffiti.
wow hoser really went on vacation and said fuck it i’ll drop a banger about this place
Isla del caribe isla del caribe Córcega
This was refreshing. I feel like Corsica and Sardinia usually just get brushed aside in these conversations.
My great great grandfather emigrated from Corsica to Puerto Rico, settled down in a coffee plantation, and had 9 kids. My great grandmother and grandmother are classic Italian ladies, and I never noticed it until I researched my family and Corsica's history for a college project.
Corsica belong to India. Jai Hind
Mine too, I’m from Puerto Rico in my grandfather is Corsican
@@cnachopchopnewsagency?? I don’t think India is the UK, y’know, taking random islands thousands of kilometers away
@@cnachopchopnewsagency WTF are you talking about?
@@Vexxy197 India have defeated France 1000 years ago. That Corsica should be ours now. Our Yogis have fight with Napolean Bonaparty before and Napolean even apologise to our Yogis so our Yogis let Napolean rule France without interuption.
The tourist numbers made me think of asheville. Barely 100k residents and 12 million toursists a year usually in the fall
12 million tourists for one small city in the western part of North Carolina? Who is your source?
@@Robert-do4gj"Trust me bro"
@@Robert-do4gj my friend lived there and he did nothing but services. From the prices of houses and what he did that doesn't sound that off.
I live about a hour away from Asheville. That really doesn't surprise me
@@Robert-do4gj I live in asheville. That's my source. You can Google it if you want to be the way you are
From the title itself, this video is gonna be the BOMB 💣
France is never going to let Corsica go. It's the birthplace of Napoleon.
I don't give a fuck
Napoleon was italian
Corsica must be Italian 🇮🇹
ok and?
@@extazy9944well and it’s their land ?
@@fiorettiduseigneurcapybara2492if even they would they would fuck them over like Hati
Nice is the birth place of Garibaldi the most important man for Italian unification. But we still left the city to France. Thouh the place originally was not even French culturally speaking. Then I don't really see why France cannot leave Corsica that is not French, furthremore Napoleon was Corsican and not French. It's their land and they deserve the right to choose.
You know it’s a great day when hoser uploads
I totally agree, even if his previous video (about Mexico) was outdated (narrating old Mexico, not the current one), I still love his videos.
-Very little working age population
-No industry outside tourism
-No more financial support from France
-No more French police keeping the Mafia and clan feuds in check.
To me, an independent Corsica sounds like another Albania.
At least albania has à young population
@@codycody4145 no it does'nt , Albania has a birth rate of 1.5 child per woman and is currently hemoraging population, minus 1.2 % population growth every year. why don't you all check before typing ? Corsica has 1.4 birthrate , the lowest in France, half of the population would leave if it declared independance, because believe it or not France is a great country ,stable, democratic, where you get "free" healthcare, free education, social support, social housing, an industry ,an army.
@@backintimealwyn5736 People care more about their ethnic identity rather than "free" healthcare and other "benefits". France should allow local nations to flourish by going confederacy instead of what France is now. Allowing Bretons, Occitanians and other ethnicities get freedom that they deserve.
@@Mot1956 You underestimate strength the french identity. We'll talk about that again when Indonesia fress Java , Japan fress sihkoku, the US frees new york and Algeria frees Kabylia. Until then, mêle toi de tes fesses.
@@backintimealwyn5736 algeria is a berber country why it will free kabylia?
9:15 I remember that. Some of my friends helped block my middle school but in only lasted like 2 days and we had to get back to studying. I have to say everybody in the school wanted to participate in those demonstrations. I believe even a french dude in the school threw a brick on a police car, breaking its windshield. I wanted to join them and even though my father had done the same thing during his youth, it was more my mother who thought i was too young to participate in that. One of the guy i knew in the school got shot in the throat by those super dangerous grenades that the french police uses. Even though he was an asshole we all felt bad for him cause the wound was really severe
Hello from a 19 y/o Corsican, first of all I really enjoyed your video, some moments made me laugh because I know what you're talking about like the spray paint, the bullets holes etc.
This is just my opinion but I'd say that the 20-25 y/o range is leaving the island because of the cost of life on our island and I'm sure that you saw this on your vacation especially in Ajaccio or Corte even if Corte is still better in price/quality, in addition to this is the rise of price for land here, if you don't have a family land or you don't have enough money to buy a buildable land don't expect to be able to build your house here, we know it and it's been a big problem for the past years, the education is also a big part of it BUT, in Corte we have a good "fac" and "iut" where I'm currently studying which teach a lot of the "basic" superior education, but in order to do architectural studies you need to go to Montpellier, Paris etc.. BUT, for most of the students they'll find themselves coming back to Corsica at the end of their studies.
For the bombing part of the video it's important to say that for most of the explosions they occur when "speculation" is detected, I won't take a risk by saying that. and I'm pretty sure that if you went to small villages like Tallano, Levie, you've seen a lot of houses, not modern one that are ruining the architectural patrimony and YES this is a big concern this is also why a lot of these villas are destroyed, btw not causing deaths.
Ho avuto la fortuna di parlare con un paio di ragazzi che dalla Corsica sono venuti a visitare la Calabria, parlando con loro ci siamo resi conto di quanto siamo simili, più che con i francesi mi è stato detto.
A friend of mine told me that a bottle of water in Corsica costs something like 7 euros. Is it true?
@@3O3Skyax depends on the city you’re in but maximum it’s like 5€
very interesting, good video. Does Sardinia feel the same way? Would be curious to know Italian thoughts on this
Hello, as far as I am aware, no. Sardinia was actually apart of the kingdom that united Italy and had been for centuries, so the island is much rather patriotic to Italy and proud of its history of creating Italy. Aswell as this, Sardinia is treated well by the Italian government and has always been inhabited by Italians, unlike Corsica which was taken by force and forced to take on a French identity. Tl;dr, no, Sardinia is the opposite due it always being Italian.
I doubt it. Some italian regions desire some level of autonomy as for long time they've been their own independent states until 1861. but they all share wider Italian identity and Italian culture while Corsica is in French world but actually is Italian
Isla del caribe isla del caribe Borinquen Córcega
Our movements of indipendence are manly just a minorance altought most of our citizen feels very patriotic for their region and think of them as first sardininians and then Italians
@@CosmicDalmatianwhat the hell a dalmatian?! I thought u guys went extinct.
That's just plain wrong that French is a second language in Corsica, many polls have shown that about 25% of corsicans can actually speak the regional language and barely 50% understand it, and it's going lower and lower every year as it's mostly old people
A simple google search could've told you that, I don't dare to watch whatever other bullshit you might have said in the rest of the video
Almost like it's due to cultural genocide
Facts
Joke's on you, then, this channel's content is generally factually sound. One minor error doesn't automatically mean that the rest is also wrong.
YES! im french but like yeah, wikipedia or anything on the first page of google. and he keeps pushing this point from minute one in the video
People like to pretend their native language is more widely spoken then it is and hype defensive about it. The official numbers are always lower.
Love your humor. Keep up the good and original work.
I just want to say Im proud of how far you've come, Ive been subbed since you had only 500 subs
Enjoyable video, could we get a history of Cyprus vid at some point ? Visited there recently and have been interested in the modern history of the island.
This feels like a great and well researched video but I would like to make a few corrections.
Corsican is not a first language anymore, having falled from fashion in favor of french near the end of the XIXth and even the independantists of today learned it as a second language and speak it with a strong french accent (According to my father, the speeches made in corsican by autonomists have nothing to see with what his native grandfather would speak).
Second, Colonna did not kill a politician but a high profile civil servant.
Third, it should have been noted that autonomists have gained a lot of strength in polls, making it plausible that more autonomy could be given to Corsica, but that means a new organization of the territories and a few more power, not independence. The actual support for independence is pretty low despite the noisy independentist movement, and sovereignity seems like a bad idea for the reasons quoted in the video.
So in the end I think independence for Corsica is highly improbable in the long term.
Was about to made my own comment about correction, but I'll add onto yours since you already did a good job
About Yvan Colonna, although it was confirmed that he was the boss of group responsible for the assassination, we don't know which member of the group fired on Erignac cause none of them wanted to give out their pairs.
Colonna still got condamned to life sentence for killing even tho there is no proof he pulled the trigger, that's why there is still a big support behind him against the "flawed french justice system".
I’m literally about to go to Corsica in a couple hours. This helped so much! Hope the freedom fighters don’t attack me though.
Cancel it, they'll just say "BUT HE A TOURIST, THEREFORE B A D" if they carbomb you-
Terrorists*
Enjoy it! It's wonderful
@@oltimos8888 Corsican IRA be like: "HHDHHWIWUYDGJSWYHSITWYHJGTWYIQSHGWYUJHGWUJKIUQKJ >:O"
@@ukaszwalczak1154 lmao 😂
0:59 You’re wrong.
As a Parisian partly originating from Corsica, I can tell you that no one speaks Corsican on a regular basis. Everyone speaks French. People still spoke Corsican in the 1960s but it slowly faded through the 70s and 80s. Very few corsicans know how to speak the language, but many use some loan words from Corsican (I.e pinzutti for tourists).
The people who speak corsican on a regular basis are the pastors, farmers etc who live in the mountains, or knowledgeable people such as Corsican scholars, historians and educated folk who wish to renew the use of the language.
It would be great if corsicans did speak to each other in Corsican, but that’s just not true. Ever since France banned regional languages from being taught as a second language. Today it’s coming back though, so we could see a change.
It has to be considered though, that if Corsica gains independence, they are no longer a part of the EU, and it is unlikely they will be able to join in or even get special treatment, because those kinds of measures have to be approved by all member states, including France and countries like Spain, which has its own independence struggles in Catalonia.
Now imagine you are an EU citizen deciding where to spend your Summer vacation. You want to visit the Mediterranean Sea and really like some of the remote, rugged places it has to offer. Do you visit Corsica and go through the bureaucratic struggle of getting a visa and possible border controls at the airport/harbor, or do you pick Sardinia as your destination instead? It has the same terrain and weather, the culture is similar and since you travel inside the EU you avoid any hassle international travel usually contains.
YES A VIDEO ON MY ISLAND
NO MY ISLAND I CLAIMED IT FIRST
Mon pays
@@theninjabird9510 I'm french so Corsica is MY island 👀
Reminds me of Western NY and it's attitude towards NYC. Many from WNY want to separate from NYC and become its own state. A lot of the same issues presented in this video applies to WNY and NYC as well
as much as i want this we would still be dealing with the same shit, Rochester and Buffalo would just make all the laws not NYC
Understandable; New York City is a shithole.
Or bavarians and basques wanting to separate from spain and Germany.
@@eyzmin Buffalo and Rochester wouldn't be as bad as NYC, Byron Brown won the mayoral election in Buffalo and most his support came from Republicans and moderates. And Buffalo and Rochester have much smaller populations than NYC, meaning they wouldn't have nearly as much control over the state. WNY would be a purple state instead of a deep blue state.
Fun fact: the West of Puerto Rico has a shit load of Corsicans. The reason the Corsicans came here was because places like Yauco, San German, Sabana Grande etc.. look very similar to Corsica.
Now I see that we are extremely similar
Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!
It is quite fascinating how Western Europeans lecture endlessly at other nations particularly in Eastern Europe and Asia about "self determination" and respecting minority rights when they have such a terrible track record of it within their own countries. Britain, France, Spain and Italy have all been pretty miserable at giving fair treatment to their sizable minority populations, and really, for what?
Corsica would collapse without France. As you said no economy aside from Tourism and France and Spain would never let Corsica join the EU. No EU> no easy travel access, No official French langauge> loss of the majority of Tourists . No Tourism economy> even fewer young people at home. Also collapse of only other economy source construction industry for tourism purposes.
Do you think it would survive if it joined Italy instead?
@@Polska_Edits it would never join italy that's unrealistic af
@@kalliase If its going to leave France, Realism is alredy gone in that situation
@@Polska_Edits It would do better than independent, italy has a well developed tourism economy, and could probably accomodate Corsica into it, but it'd take time and but that's not what the FLNC want.
They say the same about every region that wants to become autonomous, and yet there's an island called Malta without resources that exist in the Mediterranean. Stop being a fascist fighting against the self-determination of people.
I'm very familiar with the island, and honestly, I can't really see it becoming a country, young people are leaving, the modern Corsican family is rarely speaking Corsican and some even live in France 3/4 of the year. For it to become a country and use Corsican as the official language just seems impossible, one reason being that ditching the french language would little by little make French tourists go away, and when you're relying so much on tourism, you can't really afford to lose tourists like that...
(Also, great choice coming to Corsica during Spring, that's the best season to visit it)
«Siamo Còrsi per nascita e sentimenti, ma prima di tutto ci sentiamo Italiani per lingua, costumi e tradizioni... E tutti gli Italiani sono fratelli e solidali davanti alla Storia e davanti a Dio... Come Còrsi non vogliamo essere né servi e né "ribelli" e come Italiani abbiamo il diritto di essere trattati uguale agli altri Italiani... O non saremo nulla... O vinceremo con l'onore o moriremo con le armi in mano... La nostra guerra di liberazione è santa e giusta, come santo e giusto è il nome di Dio, e qui, nei nostri monti, spunterà per l'Italia il sole della libertà.»
(Pasquale Paoli a Napoli nel 1750[1
Thanks for the video, other than Napoleon. I knew very little about Corsica before watching this
Great to listen while working out 🎉
Corsica's mountains are beautiful but very rugged. It was apparently a really difficult region for the Romans to fully subdue.
Same with us Sardinians tbh
@@Boretheoryare the mountains completely solid rock or can they be terrace farmed like the Incas did with the Andes?
It's history reminds me of my own minority. Our island was constantly changing hands among northern European countries and we also have our own language
Føroyar?
Hello there Aaland. Glory to your island and people.
Well, this kind of cuisine, archiecteture and landcapes are found all over southern France, so yes, It does feel French. France is also a Mediterranean country, people seem to forget that...
south France had also a rich culture filled with Romans, Greek history and other cultures coming via the sea - but France feels or is mostly Paris centered
@@HippasosofMetapontum May be from an abroad perspective, but France is made of a lot of different culture, Bretons, Basque, Alsactians, Occitans, etc, so I would even say that Paris dont feel French because it is its own world and French who are not from Paris have a very different culture
@@HippasosofMetapontum Southern french here, we do think as steretypical parisian cuisine or architecture as our culture (well not all of us), but not as much as our local cuisine and culture (french riviera occitan in my case), which as OP said is very mediterranean and may seem "italian" from an outside point of view. We are indeed Paris centered politically and administratively, but not so much to our liking.
@@Glamizxbecause it literally was? In the 1800s up to 50% of the southern French population was italo-french which then got integrated and had the population declining. I as a Sardinian still know myself several French families that speak Italian and live near Nice/Nizza and Lyon/Lione
@@Boretheory i’m from there, I would know, we did belong to Italy but that’s not the reason why our local culture is so close to Italian culture. Our region belonged to Italy, to France, to Monaco, been independent etc … I have ancestors all from my home region but depending on their period they have different citizenships, Italian included, even monégasque. The culture here was always like that, it’s just southern European and occitan, it would have been even without belonging to Italy. I don’t say that to reject Italy, I also have actual Italian origins from somewhere else and I love this country.
Great video
0:12
Le signe en haut a gauche est un signe pour indiquer si la Maison a ete visité suite a une tempête ou une inondation. Ou autre. On peut trouver des signes similaires en floride aux Etats unis d'Amérique ;)
Ce n'est pas un signe de liberté ou autre
The island looks like a beautiful place.
Lo è!
Corsica is Italian, it's culture, it's language. Not saying they should be part of Italy, just they had loads of Italian influence and they should perhaps be their own thing, even with Sanrdinia perhaps, since they are both culturally very similar. regardless much of the graffiti is very understandable to me, an Italian speaker.
Since currently less than half of the population can understand corsican, and even less can actually speak it fluently, i doubt that corsica is still italian, every day italian influences weaken and now only old people could be considered culturally more italisn than french
Also idk about corsica being it s own thing, the economy isn t nearly strong enoughs to sustain itself and without europe subvention they seem doom to fail
@@TheGirard62 I would be really surprised if you said you support israel then? They came back after 1000s of years. When do you actually wipe a culture? How many generations does it take in your own opinion?
@@danp420 what the fuck are you talking about ? You drunk ?
how is corsica italian? corsica and italy are both mediterranean, just like southern france is mediterranenan, that doesnt mean they're all the same thing! in that case all nordic countries should be one! your statement makes no sense !
@@Yosh-wt4lg historical and linguistical reasons, if there is one thing Corsicans are not is French
Can you make another one about Western Sahara
By far my favorite content creator!
1:31 - gotta love it, no french on our signs! And you spelled vechju wrong!!
Could you do a video about brittany so we can have the separatist french duo, la corse et la bretagne
faut pas oublier les basques (plutot en espagne mais quand meme)
@@paulclavoo516 Et l'Alsace, et le Pays de Bitche...
@@shoto7643 En quoi ?
@@shoto7643 Dans tout mouvement indépendantiste des gens sont pour, d'autres contre
@@shoto7643j'ignorais même qu'il y avait un mouvement indépendantiste en Alsace 😂
Fun fact, Corsica wrote the first "red army is the strongest" version.
It's called Borgu, check it out.
Anyway, love to my corsican brothers from italy❤
"Corsican brothers", Corsicans aren't Italians they feel either French, Corsican or both.
@@shakya00 corsican language is literally italian. I could listen to a film made from corsican and understand everything.
On the other hand french people wouldn't since their language differs greatly. It's true they feel more autonomously but if they had to choose between france and italy the answer is very clear...
@@waterwatereverywhere3574 They already rebelled against Genoa to get their independence and there is no Corsican that feel Italian at all X) You don't know Corsicans. They are proud people and usually identify as Corsican and/or French but never italian. I don't understand why you Italians are so hateful of France and want to appropriate everything from us that you can...Corsicans got what they wanted, being part of France but having more autonomy, that's why Corsican terrorist groups disappeared.
And spoiler alert, Corsicans have French as their mother tongue (contrary to what is said in the video). They all speak French and a minority only, speak Corsican. And Corsican itself, although deeply influenced by Italian languages for a long time, is now more influenced by French and evolves independently from Italian for a few centuries. And as you probably know, French and Italian themselves are very close languages.
@@shakya00 cope.
@@waterwatereverywhere3574 Thank you for confirming that you don't know what you are talking about. Have a good day.
Damn, h0ser is becoming a travel guide channel. I never thought I’d consider traveling to Corsica but it does look nice (and cheap) 😎
it's not that cheap
Who is h0ser I’ve never heard of them sounds like our friend hoser
Ok just looked it up h0ser is hosers dad but past away right when hoser was born a sad story
@@stargazer-elite my favorite part of the video is when he says “it’s hosin’ time” and then he hoses the screen with anthropomorphic country aminals
@@davidoneill7554 yes it is truly the part of all time
Why is there a FEMA search and rescue X with the Corsican graffiti at 0:11?
Baby : "God, please not France or Italy"
New country of Corsica :
Would be perfect for a videogame map, an island nation in the middle of the sea.
Just Cause 5 would fit here lol
Literally Far Cry 3, instead of natives, angry ítalo-French hybrids. What a nightmare
Where else would an island be?
@@omegadomega Just Cause 3 was exactly that.
@@AlfredoPuente8 I believe Just Cause 3 was heavily based off of Corsica, Mallorca and Sardinia.
A video on Flemish separatism would be really cool! The 2024 might lead to a indepedent Flanders in the near future.
Belgium really is two countries in a Trenchcoat with a Waffle House for a capital.
Have you heard about the new Tri-State country they are trying to build in the area?
@@dingus6317what about it?
*Flemish independence
So France can annex Flanders back in ? It was always a part of France before the revolution weirdly it's Wallonia that speaks French when they were only part of France during 30 years after the revolution
Corsica had referendums for independence but people were conscious it couldn't sustain without mainland money. Instead they got autonomy which France generally doesn't allow on metropolitan territories.
Love your style of Videos!
I am so glad that you dont use countryballs to represent the countries, your little animals are so charming!
As a French, they can take their independance, but they won't get the sweet cash coming in anymore
I mean people would still travel there and is not like France really gives a fuck regarding the development of the region in sectors other than tourism.
@@fideliofox1682it would be a pain to do a Visa just for it when you can simply go to southern France and help the economy of your country by doing so instead of going in Corsica.
@@fideliofox1682 Lmao no
@@fideliofox1682 its look decent size island but because of montain geography,they dont have much place to build or farmed
As a general rule, if people living in some area want to be independent, they should be. But this requires that actually a majority (or preferably a strong majority, like more than 65%) want to be independent, and that this can be established by sufficiently unbiased polls or referendums, and one should very seriously consider what benefits exactly independence is going to give them, and what they are going to lose if they go independent. For example, an independent Corsica would make it easier for them to promote the Corsican language and culture... but they are already pretty free to do those things, and meanwhile, they would lose all the subsidies, trade rights, other benefits that come with being a part of France.
Same goes for other movements, like Catalan and Scottish independence. Sure, you can be independent if you have good cause and massive support for it, but one should be clear-eyed about what exactly the consequences of it are and what exactly you are hoping to get out of it, while honestly evaluating how likely you are to get them. One should not support independence just because it is some sort of "romantic" ideal that feels good. Otherwise you will end up with something like Brexit, except probably even worse.
It would be much worse than brexit. The UK is a nation state , britons did'nt lose their rights to : pensions, social security, access to healthcare, funding for schools, fundings for roads, fundings for energy, fundings for hospitals . Corsica is a burden for the french economy always has been , mafia ridden, xenophobic, the french tax payers pays for everything. And honestly ... let them have their independance, this sh** is geting old now. All they produce are chestnuts , sausages and cheeze. It should be interesting. I bet you 80% of the population runs away form the island before independance is completed.
Subsidies? Ever heard what the IMF, UN funds and other developed countries' foreign aid are? There are many countries relying on those for now and others who used to rely on them but not anymore, does it justify anything, will you go stopping Gabon from gaining independence, stop Estonia from gaining independence? Not to forget all their taxes revenues would come to Corsica and solely Corsica to be used for their specific problems without having to wait for the master nation to approve. Not to forget they could then get a better control (share of money) of their tourism industry the same way Carribean nations are. African peoples could also promote freely their culture under colonial empires, does it change anything other than the dominating nation still reaping the rewards from it because people think "It's France so this is regional french culture"? With also a less submissive and more ambitious mentality taking place with liberation, it would help bussiness and investments. Ever heard how trade deals don't suddenly stop being negociated and new ones can be made? Another imperialist argument.
How dare you compare independence movements in any capacity to Brexit, if nothing else, it justifies the liberation of the subjucated nations of Greater England as it was forced against them because England said so.
@@Game_Hero mhh. Do you think France should give citizenship to the 80% of corsicans who will run to France (their country) after independance? Funny how gabonese peopel beg for visas in western countries by the way. Not so keen on being freed from " the master " huh? It great to be french, I love it.
as a French i am scared of what i am gonna see in this video
Great video. Never knew about the island. Makes me want to look into the Corsican language and hear what it sounds like. Footage a little overexposed. Don't know if fixed in future videos, but sure hope it is. Let me know if you're editing in fcpx
Whenever I used to play Civilization (4-5) I always liked custom naming my empire Corsica & I’d name my settlements after the real towns on the island. So this news is interesting, ironic & cool haha
Honestly, with how France is going, I can’t blame them for wanting to leave
Most french want corsica to be independant as it is bringing a lot of trouble to france, and costs enormous amounts of tax money.
Seeing the mess that is going on in France now, I would say that something wrong has been done by France towards its possessions. Nobody has the magic wand to solve or mitigate these problems, but something should be done. In South Tyrol a lot has been done in this sense and it seems that it works quite well. There is ethnic proportionality and all jobs in administration, health care, education, courts, etc. they are divided according to the percentages of membership of the different ethnic groups. It was a beginning, also because it is not clear how many true Corsicans are left.
@@titobascou9047 Employers have to hire a certain number of german-speakers, italian-speakers and ladin-speakers.
It is part of the package of agreements between the Italian state and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. All employees who work in the public administration are divided into proportional parts based on the percentage of membership of the various ethnic groups present on the spot. I note that the aforementioned province has the highest per capita income in Italy.
Please make a video about Sardinia, that would be great. It has a incredibly interesting historical background
As a Canadian, we know more than anyone that whenever a group's name starts with "Frontière de Libération de..." the government should be very concerned
America: We killed all the natives here so we can support the NOBLE cause of indigenous independence everywhere else but here...
Considering what's going on in Russia, we might see new countries over there before Corsica becomes independent
Corsicans will likely face the same difficulties as the people in Catalonia over in Spain, or Scotland over here in the UK. Massive opposition from the leadership at the mere notion of independence. And you know, I think a lot of the time those leaders don't actually care all that much if these regions are a part of their country. They just don't want to be known as the ones who were in office when their nation got smaller 😅
Maybe, i can definelty see the similarities between Scotland, Catalonia & Corsica. To me it seems like the leaders of these countries with incredible influence want to retain that influence and realize that if one part of their country gets independence it may create a chain reaction. (Ex: Spain with Catalonia and Basque, UK with Scotland and then Northern Ireland, France with Corsica and Reuníon or some other Overseas Department) This will have incredibly negative impacts on their economy, politics, demographics and population
Scotland yes, but not really Catalonia. Catalonia wants to be independant cuz it's much richer and advanced then the rest of Spain.
@@learnjazzmusicanother fool who thinks he understands Spain.
No, catalonia became rich BECAUSE it is in Spain and an independence will never happen.
Also support of indpendance in Corsica is much lower than in Scotland and Catalonia. They are also not in the same category in economic and demographic importance (Scotland 5,5M and Catalonia 7,5M population against Corsica 300k population...)
@@neptune1525 I didn't say it was rich without spain, I didn't say it will become independant. You might want to check your arrogance level and stop insulting people on internet.
Actually one of your most interesting videos
I know someone who works in Corsican politics so I can tell you. Their regional government is about to send out its proposal to become an autonomous territory (ie, not a new country).
Corsican independantists are nowhere near as serious as Catalan independantists as they wouldn't gain much with independance, Corsica is poorer than the french average.
Maybe it's no about money. Especially when you're poorer because of occupation, genius.
@antoniousai1989 poorer because of occupation 😂
It would like saying "Nevada should be independant because it was stolen from Mexico and is poorer than California".
@@antoniousai1989 money is a big factor. Sure you'll always find people nostalgic about events 300 years ago, but to get an electoral critical mass the usual political issues cannot be ignored.
@@antoniousai1989but corsica didn't get poor because of France.
@@antoniousai1989 its poor because they dont have any natural ressource , too many montain to develop farming feed themself , too small do developp a big enough manufacturing industry, their population is aging too as the younger people leave as soon as possible , their only income is tourism and France sending them money
It seems you forgot the fact that France is a "socialist" nation. Huge fundings (1/3 of France GDP) going from the richest to the poorest parts of France, fueling education, healthcare, infrastructures, unemployement benefits, housing etc...
Add to this that Corsica is the oldest region of France (average age 50), you can easily imagine the catastrophy which would wait the corsicans if they were to be independent. Now being french myself I support all calls of independence in France (as long as the majority wants it). But really what corsica (and all regions of France really) need is autonomy.
The central power in Paris has been a destroyer of cultures since the french revolution and teh victory of the jacobins.
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Anyone here who happens to know the name of the gun that that freedom fighter or terrorist (depending on your perspective) is holding at 7:44? The design looks really cool
Corsican food isn't "more italian than french" it's just mediterranean. For a brit or an american it may look italian but corsican food is an authentic mediterannean cuisine on its own like what you have in Greece for example, (but not in Sardinia because it is way more italian)
I think you contradicted yourself three times
@@JB-bq2qj I think you should explain that
Sardinian is more traditional Italian style cuisine whereas Corsi like you said is more like Persian and Greek food.
Corsi is more like Persian and Greek food than Italian food.
sick video, could you do something similar on catalonia?
Problem with analyzing it from the outside is that the pinzutu (continentals) don't understand that corsica isn't asking to become it's own country, most see themselves as being french people overall, the mouvements mostly are a reflection of what we have throughout the country, they are asking for a change in the system we have, rule from paris has choked most of us and has destroyed many of the regions
AND almost successfully obliterated your cultural heritage, language included, to prevent you to ever come back under the Italian cultural influence..
Just look at how few mobility connections of pepole and goods are active between Corsica and Italy despite being almost surrounded by it..
@@lucaesposito6896No, it’s just that no one wants to go to Italy.
At this rate, they will be less populated than Spain in 20 years.
@@jeangenie9597 shut up 😂😂
@@jeangenie9597cry😂
@@jeangenie9597italy is too small for 60 mln people... i wish italy has 45-50 mln, italy economy is the 8th largest in the world...
Good video, very good 👍🏽
great vid :)
Saying "Corsica should be part of France because Napoleon was born there" is like saying "Austria should be part of Germany because Hitler was born there".
Austria not being part of Germany is stupid as f. They just lost a war to Prussia and just like that they aren't German anymore ?
i think napoleon would like a word…
Maybe if it was part of another country, but France is gonna hold on tight.
Just imagine the small country not being part of the EU and the common marked. Imports would be more costly and tourists would drop. What a great deal for Corsica. In the end, money rules the world
I think there might be a mistake at 2:28 - "Corsica only makes up 16% of the French GDP". I would have honestly though it'd be a lot lower. 16% of the nation's entire GDP would be a massive success. Can anyone confirm?
No it's 0,434% (only in metropolitan area) XD