Corsica: Understanding France's complex relationship with its 'island of beauty'

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
  • Subscribe to France 24 now:
    f24.my/youtubeEN
    FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7
    f24.my/YTliveEN
    Located in the Mediterranean Sea, Corsica is known as the "island of beauty". It's had a tumultuous relationship with the mainland since it became French in the 18th century and separatist sentiment still runs deep. In recent years, nationalists have gained political ground. Could this mean more autonomy for the island?
    www.france24.co...
    Visit our website:
    www.france24.com
    Subscribe to our UA-cam channel:
    f24.my/youtubeEN
    Like us on Facebook:
    / france24.english
    Follow us on Twitter:
    / france24_en

КОМЕНТАРІ • 375

  • @Gabneo1
    @Gabneo1 3 роки тому +116

    fact : if a corso speaks corsican (his language) a french cannot understand him, but a sicilian and a sardinian could ( and maybe also most of italians)

    • @riccardosebis5333
      @riccardosebis5333 3 роки тому +15

      Il corso si capisce benissimo, ha qualche influenza sarda ma soprattutto è italico come "idioma"

    • @Global-facts-360
      @Global-facts-360 3 роки тому +25

      They speak an Italian dialect, basically is Italian

    • @97Corvi
      @97Corvi 2 роки тому

      Non capisco perché dovrebbero bloccare una lingua minoritaria anche se non la capiscono
      In Italia l'alto Adige parla per metà tedesco, e mi sembra più che giusto dato che fa parte della loro identità culturale

    • @Gabneo1
      @Gabneo1 2 роки тому

      @@97Corvi ma infatti giustissimo, ma chi vorrebbe bloccarla ? In Alto Adige a dire il vero a suo tempo ci provò il fascismo, ma sempre controproducenti azioni del genere ....

    • @somwangphulsombat8468
      @somwangphulsombat8468 2 роки тому

      Corsican mostly can speak English , can't they ?

  • @specchioriflettentedelkarm2570
    @specchioriflettentedelkarm2570 5 років тому +167

    Corsica is culturally more similar to Italy than French. It's very close to Italy moreover.

    • @spikefivefivefive
      @spikefivefivefive 5 років тому +10

      Which explains the violence and corruption there

    • @abcbro5698
      @abcbro5698 4 роки тому +81

      @@spikefivefivefive yeah right? cause France is in a much better condition than Italy regarding violence and corruption? 🤣 Don't make me laugh

    • @panter82
      @panter82 4 роки тому +36

      @@spikefivefivefive on the corruption you are right, but as far as violence Italy is much safer than france. Violent crime is much lower, check out statistics before talking non sense

    • @aussie6639
      @aussie6639 4 роки тому +35

      Give it back to Italy 🇮🇹

    • @matteocarrozz3879
      @matteocarrozz3879 4 роки тому +14

      At the beginning Corsica was Genoese but was continually in revolt against Genoa. So france proposed to genoa to send its army to calm the revolts and then to give the island back to genoa, in exchange for a payment.
      Dut the French army remained on the island completely at a standstill, pretending to appease the riots. Meanwhile, the Genoese continued to pay but the French remained on the island and made Genoa go bankrupt. After genoa she was forced to sell corsica to france.

  • @louisedgar8949
    @louisedgar8949 5 років тому +44

    Many people from Corsica arrive to Puerto Rico over 100 years ago we are mixed with them as well. Very interesting to know

    • @solar7907
      @solar7907 3 роки тому +7

      I’m Corsican Puerto Rican as well

    • @texxon3355
      @texxon3355 3 роки тому

      Indeed, from my mother’s side, I have Corsican descent

    • @Utubedeletescomments
      @Utubedeletescomments Рік тому

      And Canary islands

  • @attiliofisher1094
    @attiliofisher1094 3 роки тому +31

    What i felt there it's a root striclty joint to Italy and to italians, they never considered them french.

    • @krazyjnva2up2down55
      @krazyjnva2up2down55 Рік тому

      Corsica was never a part of Italy

    • @attiliofisher1094
      @attiliofisher1094 Рік тому

      @@krazyjnva2up2down55 didn't write this, io wrote just that:
      "italians never considered them french" and that's true...
      corsica was an indipendent republic but with italian full influence (italian was official language and in 1765 pasquale paoli founded there an university from where the future ministers and managers would have come)

    • @krazyjnva2up2down55
      @krazyjnva2up2down55 Рік тому

      @@attiliofisher1094 US citizens speak English does that make them from England? 🤣.. many states are still commonwealth and pay tribute to the queen of England. Surely us citizens are British right?

    • @attiliofisher1094
      @attiliofisher1094 Рік тому +1

      @@krazyjnva2up2down55 italians and corsi (people from corsica) have the same opinion, they don't feel them "french" ... take a flight to bonifacio and ask their opinion on the matter

  • @ziaglos
    @ziaglos 5 років тому +47

    Free Free Corsica.
    Free Free Corsica.
    Free Free Corsica.
    Free Free Corsica.
    ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊

    • @xxsupersayen34xxnoe33
      @xxsupersayen34xxnoe33 3 роки тому +1

      From From Whom?
      From From Whom?
      From From Whom?
      From From Whom?
      💅💅💅💅💅💅💅

    • @forgetful9845
      @forgetful9845 3 роки тому +3

      @@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33 La Francias

    • @xxsupersayen34xxnoe33
      @xxsupersayen34xxnoe33 3 роки тому

      @@forgetful9845 you didn't write your comment like an idiot therefore your argument is invalid

  • @josefpohl5489
    @josefpohl5489 6 років тому +97

    There are 3 lands now ruled by France that don't feel quite french: Brittany, Corsica, Alsace. Lot of people wish they have legally preserved culture and more autonomy.

    • @sard-anonimus2818
      @sard-anonimus2818 5 років тому +30

      France also owns part of the Basque country and part of Catalunya.

    • @Joshayne
      @Joshayne 4 роки тому +14

      You forgot Nizza (Nice in English), Savoia (Savoy in English) and Alta Savoia (Upper Savoy in English)

    • @circumit9494
      @circumit9494 4 роки тому +17

      Lmaoo im from Brittany and Im fully french to me its only old people who dont feel french

    • @xxsupersayen34xxnoe33
      @xxsupersayen34xxnoe33 4 роки тому +1

      source:I made it up
      edit: came back here to tell you this kind of logic is as unfounded as saying "in the us there are 3 group that don't feel american, texas puerto rico and california"

    • @invest48
      @invest48 4 роки тому +4

      @@circumit9494 Only veterans use french flags in the ceremonies. Try to erect one in front of your house.

  • @alessandromorrone3598
    @alessandromorrone3598 3 роки тому +29

    Corsica must become indipendent or under italy.

    • @Mark152093
      @Mark152093 Місяць тому

      I doubt that they would want to trade Paris for Rome.

  • @tomwait7900
    @tomwait7900 5 років тому +6

    i love looking at this. I am English and in 2000 i took a bus in the Corsican hills. Lovely people.

  • @masterjunky863
    @masterjunky863 4 роки тому +39

    🇮🇹Corsica🇮🇹

  • @mredser76
    @mredser76 6 років тому +52

    very interesting topic , I wish more media companies covered separatist movements like this . Felt as though the coverage was unbiased and understanding of the cause.

  • @richardglady3009
    @richardglady3009 Рік тому +1

    That was a wonderful story. The coverage was objective and comprehensive (as much as possible in a short video). Thank you very much.

  • @arx3516
    @arx3516 4 роки тому +36

    Italy recognizes french and german as a official languages due to the minorities in Aosta Valley and South Tyrol, why can't France do the same with Corsica?

    • @Irfan87
      @Irfan87 3 роки тому +5

      Because the French are a very proud people and nation, not to mention extremely stubborn too. My best guess as to why they can't follow the footsteps of Italy is something along the lines of it being un-French like to allow such things. They must be of one nationality and language etc.

    • @arx3516
      @arx3516 3 роки тому +6

      @@Irfan87 It's an outdated way of thinking.

    • @Irfan87
      @Irfan87 3 роки тому +3

      @@arx3516 Of course it is.

    • @xxsupersayen34xxnoe33
      @xxsupersayen34xxnoe33 3 роки тому

      because that would be unconstitutional and we don't want to start the 6 republic just to add "also corsican breton alsacian basque creole mahoriann wallisian futunian and tahitian are now official languages". furthetmore, recognition pf a language doesn't change a thing, what matters is how much the government spend in school for preserving it

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 3 роки тому +2

      That is not true at all. Italy has only one official language which is Italian. French and German are recognized in Italy as regional languages, that’s it. And Plot twist, Corsican is also recognized in France as a regional language, so your comment really makes no sense.

  • @NYKgjl10
    @NYKgjl10 6 років тому +7

    I plan to go to Corsica one day to visit.

  • @abrahamdiegogaudramirez
    @abrahamdiegogaudramirez 6 років тому +51

    Corsica’s relation with France reminds me of Puerto Rico’s relation with the USA. They both seem to be getting the shortest end of the stick.

    • @victorpianet8066
      @victorpianet8066 6 років тому +34

      Except that Corsica is a fully integrated part of metropolitan France wich ensures that every people living in Corsica is a french citizen, and that Corsica has representatives to both the national assembly and the Senate, unlike Puerto Rico !

    • @indeed7135
      @indeed7135 6 років тому

      Victor Pianet 😐🙁🎅🏽

    • @fablb9006
      @fablb9006 3 роки тому +1

      D'Abraham not at all

    • @josesantiago863
      @josesantiago863 3 роки тому +2

      I was thinking the same, I watch this video because I’m doing a research on my family’s origins and it so happens that they immigrated from Corsica to Puerto Rico.

    • @Ashley-km4qi
      @Ashley-km4qi 3 роки тому +1

      I was thinking the same with Hawai’i too. They belong to Polynesia not the US.

  • @Ekphrasys
    @Ekphrasys 5 років тому +35

    I think that besides its independence Corsica is part of Italy : names, culture, language ...everything is very very “italic”... they have nothing to do with France and French !

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 4 роки тому +2

      Ekphrasys
      Apart that you know... today they mostly speak French and they certainly do Not want to be italian

    • @ezioauditore1522
      @ezioauditore1522 4 роки тому +16

      @@guguss3804 It could be as you say. I would like to point out that the Corsican Constitution of Pasquale Paoli is written in Italian. I wouldn't be so sure in stating that corsicans don't feel Italics. The roots are Italics and cannot be erased otherwise the Corsicans would lose their identity. Politics is another thing.

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 4 роки тому +1

      Tirolumido I can definitely tell you that Corsicans do not want at all to join Italy. It was already a minority before WW2 and every trace of italian irredentism died during WW2. Even the Corsican Language is only spoken by about 100 thousand corsicans now, when Corsica has about 330 thousand inhabitants. Paoli may have written a Constitution in italian, but that was 200 years ago, a lot has happened since then.

    • @riccardosebis5333
      @riccardosebis5333 4 роки тому +6

      Guguss Italy exist by 2000 years, is not France has created the very nation, Corsica is Italian for culture, (Paoli was italian like napoleon)

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 4 роки тому +4

      Riccardo Sebis
      Again You are acting as if Italy was already a Country which it wasn’t. You could say Napoleon was of Italic culture, Not that he was Italian. He never felt Italian. He felt Corsican and then he felt French. He went to school in France, embraced the French Revolution, asked to be burried in France. He even made Italy a puppet of France. And Italy does not exist since 2000 years at all. The modern Country of Italy was only formed in the Second half of the 19th century. Before that, it was completely divided

  • @junkersintutus4282
    @junkersintutus4282 6 років тому +54

    That flag is awesome; FREE CORSICA!

    • @Ekphrasys
      @Ekphrasys 5 років тому +2

      Junkers in Tutus the flag is the same as Sardinian ‘s flag !

    • @italiangirl231
      @italiangirl231 5 років тому

      🏳️

    • @matteocarrozz3879
      @matteocarrozz3879 4 роки тому

      at the beginning Corsica was Genoese but was continually in revolt against Genoa. so france proposed to genoa to send its army to calm the revolts and then to give the island back to genoa, in exchange for a payment.
      but the French army remained on the island completely at a standstill, pretending to appease the riots. Meanwhile, the Genoese continued to pay but the French remained on the island and made Genoa go bankrupt. after genoa she was forced to sell corsica to france.

    • @thehistorynerd4845
      @thehistorynerd4845 2 роки тому +1

      Its origins are a bit horrible. The moors head is seen on the Corsican, Sardinian and aragonian flag and it depicts the head of a black moor. The moors were a group of Muslims from Spain who arrived during the caliphate times and never left and suffered heavy persecution an would be executed under the inquisition

    • @thehistorynerd4845
      @thehistorynerd4845 2 роки тому

      @Hi You well corsica is packed between Italy france and Spain an area which Arabs raided a lot so I’m not sure but I think it is was for their ancestors to covey their anger

  • @cman0372
    @cman0372 2 роки тому +5

    Enjoying this extraordinary island as I write this . I have traveled to many islands in Europe, but unfortunately it was not until now that I have had the pleasure of being here on Corsica.
    Yesterday when walking towards the Port I saw written on a wall in massive blue painted letters...." Corsica is not French". I understand the prevailing native sentiment well, but what struck me as odd was that it was written in English...not French or Italian.

    • @Peace_And_Love42
      @Peace_And_Love42 Рік тому

      Seems like an intentional choice. I respect it.

    • @SonicPhonic
      @SonicPhonic Місяць тому

      Ironic. The young man who spoke about Corsica's culture; does he support it? In Canada, Quebecois separatist politicians talk about how their "identity" and then cut language programs and spend that money on hockey arenas. Did they hear the old men: "who will pay our pensions?"

  • @Rick_Cleland
    @Rick_Cleland 6 років тому +23

    Hi Flo!! Let's get Married!!

    • @rteja764
      @rteja764 6 років тому +6

      i m also in line!

    • @Born782
      @Born782 6 років тому +4

      Leave my wife alone !!!)))))))

    • @MarcioCapuera
      @MarcioCapuera 5 років тому +1

      @@Born782 OMG there are long line to get my girl. I have a crush on her :)

    • @syphon_9892
      @syphon_9892 5 років тому +1

      @@MarcioCapuera is florence villeminot french-canadian

    • @issac8772
      @issac8772 3 роки тому

      Buffs what?

  • @giampierover7832
    @giampierover7832 3 роки тому +19

    Corsica is Italian (under international law).
    France has never bought the "property" of the island.
    The Republic of Genoa only gave France "temporary possession" of a few places and ports (Treaty of Versailles of 1768).
    Ownership of the island remained with the Papal State and passed "de jure" to the Italian State in 1929 (Concordat Italy / Papal State).

    • @Vitorruy1
      @Vitorruy1 3 роки тому

      Thats a lie, Italy renounced all claims to Corsica after WW2.

    • @giampierover7832
      @giampierover7832 3 роки тому

      @@Vitorruy1 Under what international treaty or unilateral act can you say this?

    • @tomassarta
      @tomassarta 3 роки тому

      @@Vitorruy1 informalmente ! perchè la richiesta di rinuncia da parte francese sarebbe stata un ammissione di indebito possesso .

    • @wertyuiopasd6281
      @wertyuiopasd6281 2 роки тому

      "under international law"
      Ok just shut the f up.

  • @RaulLopez-kb5fc
    @RaulLopez-kb5fc 6 років тому +56

    Free Corsica.

  • @DragonCity2videoaula
    @DragonCity2videoaula 5 років тому +27

    Corsica deve essere parte di Italia

  • @sink2a
    @sink2a 7 місяців тому +1

    you forget to mention the moment when France provided land and resources to repatriated colons after the independence of Algeria, to the detriment of the Corsicans on their own land

  • @edenender
    @edenender 3 роки тому +5

    Corsica was a free republic from 1750 to 1769 when was brutally conquered by France. So freedom for Corsu

  • @solar7907
    @solar7907 3 роки тому +7

    Free Corsica

  • @Dani-yg8gi
    @Dani-yg8gi 4 роки тому +15

    Amici Corsi, quando un italiano viene nel vostro paese parlategli nella vostra lingua, non in francese!

  • @eugeniocapelli9316
    @eugeniocapelli9316 3 роки тому +10

    Corsica, libera nazione

    • @ludovicob6603
      @ludovicob6603 Рік тому

      🇮🇹 stai scrivendo in italiano e. Hai nome e cognome italiani 😅 mi capirai sicuro perché il corso è un dialetto italiano

  • @mydogisbailey
    @mydogisbailey 8 днів тому +1

    Let them be independent and see the economy and quality of life crumble to the ground. Zero aid

  • @catsfrommars
    @catsfrommars 3 роки тому +5

    I'm here because of Alizee

  • @Matthew-cw3gn
    @Matthew-cw3gn 4 роки тому +7

    Italians did not rule over Corsica. Corsicans are Italians.
    France is the one ruling over Corsica. Corsica was part of an Italian Republic.

    • @mkgvlc4
      @mkgvlc4 3 роки тому

      Of two actually ( It has under Pisan rule before Genoa) and Aldo under papal control for dime years, and even forba few years..Ive been therr, its so clearly a colonized territory by France

    • @wertyuiopasd6281
      @wertyuiopasd6281 2 роки тому

      Italy state = 1861

    • @thebeastofbrayroad9382
      @thebeastofbrayroad9382 2 місяці тому

      Corsicans are not italians !
      Corsicans are like natives in u.s.a ...

  • @Christinesammie
    @Christinesammie 6 років тому +8

    Who will pay our pensions? Oh...France. Not Corsica. Money rules! As usual.

    • @thebeastofbrayroad9382
      @thebeastofbrayroad9382 5 років тому +2

      Christine
      what can this do for you ??? if one day we are independent, well, those who feel French and want their pensions will go to mainland France ... that's all, there is not only money in life.

    • @caxaptt6514
      @caxaptt6514 3 роки тому

      @@thebeastofbrayroad9382 doesn't France pay pensions to her citizens who reside abroad?

  • @dewitt3453
    @dewitt3453 3 роки тому +5

    Corsica isn’t French, it’s Corsican.

  • @JuanGarcia-hm7ux
    @JuanGarcia-hm7ux 5 років тому +6

    Florence villeminot you’re amazing

  • @feridseyidov4392
    @feridseyidov4392 3 роки тому +3

    i am interested in what think the population of Corica, what they want. To get more autonomy or to be as a part of Italia?

    • @Miuccia.
      @Miuccia. 3 роки тому +3

      We definitely don’t want to be Italians, we are our own selves, we want autonomy and if we can rebuild our state and economy, there is no reason we couldn’t become independent, however, independence isn’t the most important thing to remember when you think about Corsica, I would say it is not important at all actually, what bothers me as a Corsican is the hostility from the French state, the total denial of a democratic wish expressed peacefully through the ballot box. But if you are interested in what most corsicans think, let me tell you they are nationalists or at least agree with most things they say.

  • @Global-facts-360
    @Global-facts-360 3 роки тому +2

    All bullshits, Corsica was never given to France from Genova's republic. In that time Geova asked help to Frence in order to stop the island insurrection for the independence. Genova agreed to temporarily cede the island with one of the Versail treaties but only until the island was liberated by the revolutionaries. In exchange, Genova undertook to pay the French troops. Unfortunately, however, the French army never left the island, appropriating illegitimately. Therefore Corsica is still legitimately owned by the republic of Genoa and since today it is part of Italy it must be considered Italian.

  • @uduehdjztyfjrdjciv2160
    @uduehdjztyfjrdjciv2160 Рік тому +1

    Corsica was illegally conquered by french colonists.
    Corsican lives matters. Also pay reparations for colonial period 🤗

  • @GerrySantiago1982
    @GerrySantiago1982 3 роки тому +14

    My grandmother‘s father is a Corsica native on my mom side so I’m thinking maybe I could have Italian heritage?

    • @solar7907
      @solar7907 3 роки тому +10

      Most likely I’m guessing the same for me cause most corsicans have Italian names

    • @Nico-iv3wr
      @Nico-iv3wr 3 роки тому +7

      As an Italian I can garantee you that corsican language is 90% mutually intelligible with italian, their names are italian, their culture is italian. Only politically is a part of France, a colony. Napoleon was actually called Napoleone di Buonaparte but changed his name to adapt it to french

    • @sisilafamille7650
      @sisilafamille7650 3 роки тому

      @@Nico-iv3wr Corsica has been French since 1768, you are naive if you believe that French culture did not permeate Corsica. Corsicans have their own cultures, they do not want to be attached to the Italians.
      Corsica is a French department, not a colony.
      What do you think Corsica brings to France, apart from being a beautiful island for a holiday?
      When one colonizes one seeks to use the country's resources, Corsica has no raw materials and lives mainly thanks to the French state, on which the island is very dependent.
      Besides, the Corsicans want more autonomy, they are not looking to leave France, in the vast majority.
      Corsica has Italian influences it is true but it is a French island, absolutely not a colony.

    • @Nico-iv3wr
      @Nico-iv3wr 3 роки тому +8

      @@sisilafamille7650 Corsica has not italian influence, Corsica is literally italian, lol. The language literally comes from Tuscan, the same language from which Italian comes, therefore any Italian can understand Corsican and viceversa. I know they depend from France, that's why many people don't want its independence, but still many do. Corsica is a colony, it's not only about raw material, it's also about its geographic position and EEZ. It's been franchised for centuries now, but it managed to maintain its culture, regardless of the many French from the mainland

    • @sisilafamille7650
      @sisilafamille7650 3 роки тому

      @@Nico-iv3wr I agree with you on the Corsican culture which has similarities with the Italian culture. But they still have their own culture.
      The Quebecois are literally descendants of the French. They speak French, they know our history well, common to theirs. But they do not consider themselves French, but Quebecois and then Canadian.
      Even if they tend to follow French trends sometimes, they have their own culture. Quebec looks more like a North American territory where French is spoken than a North American version of France.
      And even if Italy is closer to Corsica than the large ocean which separates France from Canada.
      There are silmilitudes.
      Even if Corsican sounds Italian for you, they are not. They consider themselves to be Corsican, nothing else.
      Today Corsicans all speak French and an estimated 30,000 Corsican speakers on the island (only 10%). Corsica has been French for 253 years. There is obviously a strong French influence in Corsica, even though the island retains its uniqueness.
      And no, this is not a colony, Corsica costs France more money than Corsica earns.
      Corsicans have exactly the same rights as any other Frenchman. Most locals know that the island will have great difficulty if it becomes independent. Economically it will already be very hard. And many regional powers, such as Italy, will be interested in Corsica. They have no interest in being independent, in fact the majority only wants more autonomy than independence. Corsicans are not exploited.
      And if one day they want the indepandance et vote for it, they dont want to be attached to Italy. They want a corsican nation.

  • @martinemjt
    @martinemjt 6 років тому +22

    Free Corsica from France. France doesn't t care for any of the land they " colonize" they just want the waterways. That s why with the smallest land mass, it possesses the most waterways. Trafficking ,the way of the French.

    • @Sandfish-zw6id
      @Sandfish-zw6id 6 років тому +7

      france don't own any colony now are you stupid ?!? these lands you call "colonies" are french people have french nationality and feel like it (remember the referendums we made in the 2000's Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and french Polynesia voted to remain french !)

    • @ericlouclair2585
      @ericlouclair2585 5 років тому +6

      It is the true face of every country!
      The chinese colonizer destroyed tibet!
      The french colonizer destroyed algeria, corsica!

    • @italiangirl231
      @italiangirl231 5 років тому +3

      Vi libererete🏳️

    • @deliciousravioli3007
      @deliciousravioli3007 3 роки тому

      You are not French at all stfu

  • @unique7988
    @unique7988 4 роки тому +13

    Peccato che abbiamo perso La Corsica alla Francia. 🇮🇹

    • @Global-facts-360
      @Global-facts-360 3 роки тому +5

      Non l'abbiamo persa, ce l'hanno rubata, tipico lavoro alla francese

    • @thehistorynerd4845
      @thehistorynerd4845 2 роки тому +2

      Tutti conosciamo la Corsica e nice (la città) appartengono entrambi a noi

  • @MLSSTM
    @MLSSTM 3 роки тому +3

    It's not "complex". It's simply Italian.

  • @margolyn8291
    @margolyn8291 2 роки тому +1

    Beautiful ❤️❤️

  • @SonicPhonic
    @SonicPhonic Місяць тому

    I just finished watching a lengthy series about the "mafia" in Cosica. Any updates?

  • @orestes67
    @orestes67 4 роки тому +3

    reminds of Puerto Rico and the US

  • @Isykléos
    @Isykléos 6 років тому +45

    Corsica è italiana!

    • @ghjuvincenti
      @ghjuvincenti 6 років тому +8

      MJoker3 you wanna start a fight

    • @PRmoustache88
      @PRmoustache88 6 років тому +10

      Corsicans are uniquely Corsican.

    • @Isykléos
      @Isykléos 6 років тому +7

      random guy sì ma la Corsica è una regione e non è uno stato, ed è molto più italiana che francese, secondo me le autonomie di territori così piccoli sono stupide, vedi la padania o la catalogna

    • @christmar67
      @christmar67 6 років тому +3

      in your dreams

    • @simon2312
      @simon2312 6 років тому +5

      evita queste provocazioni, sono controproducenti.
      tutti sappiamo che la corsica è culturalmente più vicina all'italia

  • @trojanette8345
    @trojanette8345 5 років тому +2

    Please consider providing an e-mail address for your hosts (Jeannie Godula and Flo Villeminot) under your channel, UA-cam "About" tab or somewhere on your France24 website. Have mercy on your audience as, not everyone does social media. You have left those of us (not on social media) with no way to contact either host directly, if we so choose.

  • @realityismerelyanill
    @realityismerelyanill 6 років тому +23

    You cannot "free" corsica when the majority in the island doesnt want this to happen. Let alone those in the mainland.

    • @Miuccia.
      @Miuccia. 4 роки тому +8

      Clados I am corsican and let me tell you man I don’t know ONE SINGLE CORSICAN that doesn’t want independence

    • @fakechloe207
      @fakechloe207 4 роки тому

      @@Miuccia. but don't you think it's dangerous to rush it?

    • @a.maskil9073
      @a.maskil9073 3 роки тому +5

      Who cares what the mainland thinks? It's not their business.

    • @arx117
      @arx117 3 роки тому +1

      Pattani is in southern thailand wanted to be free, but thai refuse to let them go despite they are different race

    • @rolletroll2338
      @rolletroll2338 3 роки тому

      @@a.maskil9073it will be yours if you think you can ignore that.

  • @fioraz1988
    @fioraz1988 Місяць тому

    It's literally a French colony in the Italian geographical area. That's why it's troubled, they're culturally not French. Only the citizenship is French but not for their choice.

  • @realauthenthickpopfannosar7304
    @realauthenthickpopfannosar7304 4 роки тому +1

    These is how most foreigners view Corsicans
    Corsican: Very very dramatic quote

  • @secondaryaccount9535
    @secondaryaccount9535 4 роки тому +3

    Guys doesn't it remind you of America with Hawaii, Hawaii has it own language, food, flag, culture yet its an american state.

    • @forgetful9845
      @forgetful9845 3 роки тому +1

      Do the people in Hawaii want independence though?

    • @pippocannelunghe1411
      @pippocannelunghe1411 3 роки тому +1

      Has the american government ever attempted to kill their language and culture like the french did with the corsican? Probably that's the difference.

    • @huskydogable
      @huskydogable 3 роки тому +1

      Hawaiian is an official language along with English in Hawaii.

    • @caxaptt6514
      @caxaptt6514 3 роки тому +2

      @@pippocannelunghe1411 "ever attempted to kill their language" - from 1896-1986

    • @Ashley-km4qi
      @Ashley-km4qi 3 роки тому +1

      @@forgetful9845 yes most do! But they’re being overshadowed because their numbers aren’t big enough. Native Hawaiians are becoming more extinct and most are homeless in their own land because of the influx of people moving to the islands making it more expensive to live there. It’s a huge problem that is overlooked.

  • @alfonsopanarisi8852
    @alfonsopanarisi8852 5 років тому +12

    Corsica è italiana.

  • @Jameshundle
    @Jameshundle 2 роки тому +4

    La Corsica è una provincia indipendente ITALIANA

  • @slappy8941
    @slappy8941 5 років тому +2

    Corsica is the Sicily of France.

  • @sevinjhidayat2977
    @sevinjhidayat2977 2 роки тому +1

    I want Corsica FREE, BASTA! Support from Karabakh Azerbaijan! We liberated Karabakh from France's ally and occupant fascist Armenia, you can liberate Corsica from France! Love Italy and Corsica!

  • @riccardosebis5333
    @riccardosebis5333 3 роки тому +1

    A day, with sardinian, a unic state

  • @ymk8355
    @ymk8355 3 роки тому +2

    What on earth is greater metropolitan France? Calling a whole country metropolitan is pejorative (at least in english). All previous empires have done away with this colonial word

  • @dariomarsanic9423
    @dariomarsanic9423 6 місяців тому

    Long live the memory of the hero Pasqual Paoli!

  • @fivizzano
    @fivizzano 5 років тому +7

    Its NOT a "French" island ... its BONAPARTE that owns France.... even now ...

  • @Snooper810
    @Snooper810 3 роки тому

    what a beautiful girl who is talking about the Island

  • @antonio36996
    @antonio36996 6 років тому +1

    Not the same ... do not put catalan and corsica together. she did not touch on the differences.

  • @charlesdang4670
    @charlesdang4670 2 роки тому

    Hi Flow, what is happening in Corsica?? An update please... :)

  • @sink2a
    @sink2a 7 місяців тому

    You forgot the times where french was buying all the milk produced in corsica at very low price to kill (once again) the economic autonomy of Corsica and Corsicans

  • @samsadeniz
    @samsadeniz 6 років тому +28

    There is no "relationship" you stole it from italian people.

    • @realityismerelyanill
      @realityismerelyanill 6 років тому +17

      It was bought from genoa...

    • @JXSantini
      @JXSantini 5 років тому +2

      Corsica was bought at Gene by France whereas it was at that time the independent and under a republic, the republic of Corsica having drawn up the 1st constitution of the modern world in 1755

    • @gabbianaitaliana8019
      @gabbianaitaliana8019 5 років тому +3

      Non è stata comprata. Leggetevi il trattato va

    • @randomguy5189
      @randomguy5189 5 років тому +7

      @@gabbianaitaliana8019 il trattato firmato tra due potenze senza chiedere niente alla popolazione come disse paoli siamo stati venduti come un branco di pecore la corsica fu rubata si ma non all'italia al suo popolo che col sangue aveva respinto il governo Genovese che per più di 500 anni trattava l'isola come una colonia da sfruttare

    • @pippocannelunghe1411
      @pippocannelunghe1411 3 роки тому +2

      @@realityismerelyanill France never bought corsica. They stole it with a scam. Go read what really happened from real historians.

  • @frederick-nrunkkamara103
    @frederick-nrunkkamara103 6 років тому +1

    Sacre bleu! Love the show.

  • @dalmatiaball7687
    @dalmatiaball7687 3 роки тому +1

    6:20 so basically Dalmatia if there was an armed insurgency

  • @eddieibarra356
    @eddieibarra356 2 роки тому

    Did you know there is a significant amounts of Puerto Ricans that have Corsican ancestry.

  • @dausmoithai6198
    @dausmoithai6198 2 роки тому +1

    Vive La Corse

  • @לעזאזלעםגוביידן
    @לעזאזלעםגוביידן 2 роки тому +1

    Napoleon Bonaparte will be mad

  • @christmar67
    @christmar67 6 років тому +10

    independance ? Without money,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,!!!!

    • @thebeastofbrayroad9382
      @thebeastofbrayroad9382 5 років тому +11

      Yes . And without french

    • @spikefivefivefive
      @spikefivefivefive 5 років тому +3

      - Just like the ungrateful child who wants to leave the parents but can't.

    • @christmar67
      @christmar67 4 роки тому

      Honni soit qui mal y penseDieu et mon Droit,,, ,Enjoy your meal !

  • @hornkraft9438
    @hornkraft9438 5 років тому +6

    Yes, Corsica is just like Puerto Rico. Different culture, different language, bombing the mainland in the 1970s, lives off of charity from the mainland ... Yep, that's like Puerto Rico! Wants independence but keep those government checks coming ...

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 4 роки тому +3

      Horn Kraft
      It is not at all like Puerto Rico... Corsica is represented at the French Parliament... do not say stupid stuff

    • @Ashley-km4qi
      @Ashley-km4qi 3 роки тому

      And Hawaii too. I think Hawaii has it even worse because ever since the US took control, the natives are becoming extinct and the Hawaiian language is being forgotten about. It’s now overrun by white tourists who only appropriate the culture and are the main reason why natives are becoming homeless because they can’t even afford to live on their own land.

    • @GuonMr
      @GuonMr 3 роки тому

      @@Ashley-km4qi Also overrun by Japanese & British.

    • @Ashley-km4qi
      @Ashley-km4qi 3 роки тому

      @@GuonMr yes that too

  • @eiraremejeene
    @eiraremejeene 6 років тому

    Oh! For some seconds there I thought this was sort of a response to Miss France 2018. Hahaha

  • @scemochilegge777
    @scemochilegge777 Рік тому

    Ridateci la nostra isola

  • @MD-yb5kw
    @MD-yb5kw 2 роки тому

    free Corsica.

  • @Sofus.
    @Sofus. 6 років тому +23

    I declare my house to be a new republic

  • @danielhosana6769
    @danielhosana6769 4 місяці тому

    The green prince 2014 is the same as it is seldom and the 6th of March 40k und das ist auch der beste Film der Serie und der Song mit den Songs) (2024) $ 1000

  • @ericlouclair2585
    @ericlouclair2585 5 років тому +2

    Not recognized as political prisoners?
    Well! They are political prisoners!

  • @robertocalibancove8245
    @robertocalibancove8245 2 роки тому +1

    There is a mistake in the first sentence of the video, Corsica is Italy not France.

  • @tritiyo_noyon
    @tritiyo_noyon Рік тому

    in other words France occupied it

  • @max45l
    @max45l 6 років тому +8

    Napoléon was born in corsica so never you'll never leave France !

    • @josefpohl5489
      @josefpohl5489 6 років тому +21

      You are funny. French accomplished a lot from other nations half of your famous people are not ethnically french.

    • @christmar67
      @christmar67 6 років тому +7

      In his testament Napoléon say " For my dead in want to be in Paris near the Seine and with the people of France " never he said "i want to be in corsica"

    • @thebeastofbrayroad9382
      @thebeastofbrayroad9382 5 років тому +3

      @@christmar67
      NAPOLÉON WAS CORSICAN !
      not Chinese, not Congolese, not Brazilian, or Papuans !!! It seems that it makes you feel belly to say that he was Corsican ! It is shocking ! George Washington was what he ? Mexican ? .
      Corsica island was " Genoese by force of guns » , as it is today she hes « French by the force of guns too » , since 1768 ...
      " Five or six families share the thrones of Europe and they see with pain that a Corsican has come to sit on one of them . I can not maintain myself there
      by force . "
      « Napoleon
      Bonaparte 1804 » .
      even Adolf Hitler recognized that Napoleon was Corsican .
      « As far as France is concerned , one must think that its military reputation is not due to the state of mind of the bulk of its population , but simply to the fact that it has benefited , on the continent, from military constellations . which were favorable to him . Every time she found herself in front of the resolute Germans , she was beaten under Frederick the Great in 1940 , and so on . The fact that a military genius like the Corsican Napoléon could have led her to great historical victories does not change anything » .
      Hitler that unknown (Hitlers Tischgesprache im Führerhauptquartier) (1951) , Adolf Hitler , notes by Henry Picker , ed . Presses de la cité , 1969 , April 5 , 1942 , p . 284

    • @Dennis-ew1xs
      @Dennis-ew1xs 5 років тому

      Gary Plauch did you forget to take your medication?

    • @thebeastofbrayroad9382
      @thebeastofbrayroad9382 5 років тому

      @@Dennis-ew1xs
      hello Dennis Prm , could I know why you told me this please ?

  • @makotohanamiya4510
    @makotohanamiya4510 3 роки тому

    Let Jean Christophe Bonaparte becomes Prince of Corsica.

  • @giannicossu3282
    @giannicossu3282 2 роки тому

    Lu corsu faedda Lu gadduresu,

  • @robert9016
    @robert9016 3 роки тому

    2:26 respect to the guy recording him with a dirty samsung

  • @akbarshoed
    @akbarshoed 5 років тому +2

    Why does she keep looking at notes? Isn't this her country she's talking about?

  • @randomguy5189
    @randomguy5189 5 років тому +3

    italians never ruled corsica for starters Italia was proclaims as an unified nation in 1860 tuscans did rule the island i know today tuscans identify as italians but back in the days napolitans sicilians Genovese milanese venetian all those factions were independant from one another so it is anachronic to say italians rule the island when italians did not yet exist as a coherent and united nation they spoke different language and were fighting often one another last thing i want to mention is that corsica became french in 1869 not 68 and even then it was more of a military occupation than a real annexion

    • @davideleotube
      @davideleotube Рік тому

      You are mistaking the Italian State for Italians. Throughout their millennial history, italic peoples have rarely been politically united, that's part of our character, we are peoples of city states and regional autonomies, a character which apparently the Corse people preserved better than their mainland brothers did after the political unification and that makes them paradoxically more genuinely Italian than legal Italians. That said, Italy was united under the Kingdom of Sardinia, once Kingdom of Sardinia and Corse.

  • @Historyboi-vn7gd
    @Historyboi-vn7gd 4 роки тому +3

    Indigenous? U mean Italian or Native what kinda of racism is this the indigenous are the native American s before colombus not the Corsican s

    • @forgetful9845
      @forgetful9845 3 роки тому +4

      indigenous doesnt just refer to native americans

    • @forgetful9845
      @forgetful9845 3 роки тому +3

      Italians are indigenous to italy

    • @caxaptt6514
      @caxaptt6514 3 роки тому

      @@forgetful9845 guess it's that the term is more often applied to areas with heavy foreign presence while the native population rides in the back of the bus, so to speak.

    • @forgetful9845
      @forgetful9845 3 роки тому

      @@caxaptt6514 yeah you're right, ive learned more about it since i made that comment, it refers to like, natives of an area that still exist but are the minority compared to a different group that migrated to that area.

  • @samjarvis6499
    @samjarvis6499 4 роки тому

    "I'm Corsican not french..." they say speak french, rather than Corsican. Speak French, you're french.

    • @AFKNotMisha
      @AFKNotMisha 4 роки тому +2

      @Franny F and that's italian

    • @mustafasas7012
      @mustafasas7012 4 роки тому +1

      @Franny F se conosci bene il dialetto della corsica allora riesci benissimo a capirmi. Abbiamo la stessa lingua, siamo italiani, venite da noi in italia, vi tratteremo bene e sarete una regione a statuto speciale

    • @SadieDLdn
      @SadieDLdn 2 роки тому +1

      What a silly comment. If that’s the case anyone who speaks English is English.

    • @dede19833
      @dede19833 2 роки тому +1

      You are funny.
      I can speak 4 languages with almost no accent ; how would you know where Iam from ?

  • @princesshassim6009
    @princesshassim6009 3 роки тому +2

    Madame Villeminot, it does not matter that your nation TOOK IT BY FORCE in the 1700's, taken by force is still taken by force......nations should learn that just because they took something by force and may have owned it for centuries, it still does not make it theirs. If i still money from another OBVIOUSLY it is not mine.....not even if i lasted a thousand years, MADAME.

  • @algerianamazigh5442
    @algerianamazigh5442 2 роки тому

    Free Corsica