The South China Morning Post journalists would get in trouble if they said that many in Hong-Kong are nostalgic of their colonial days. They got some Pondicheriens to say it instead.
@@marcelo497 they were taught a mythical version of what british rule was. few in the older generation who remember what it was like wants that. you can look up the pictures and see what the british did.
@@Kneecap22 What you said doesn't even make sense, anyone over 30 years old remember the the British rule, it's not like it was such long time ago that people would be nostalgic about it.
I grew up in a former French colonial town in India,West Bengal. The town has two churches. The smaller roads still have french names. There is a French Museum. The town helped freedom fighters against British during independence as it was under French jurisdiction. In fact the founder of Azad Hind army was born here, Rasbihari bose.
French rule was more liberal and people were allowed govt jobs and get into colleges and etc etc.british was more aggressive with fewer people in govt jobs and admissions into colleges
So diabolical that 2 million Indians call Britain home and that millions more inhabit the countries of the old British Empire. The British Empire was a ticket to fortune for many Indians. Incidentally everybody goes on about Famines but ignores the fact that Indians were themselves responsible for food dispersement and it was only when the British Indian Army took control of it in 1943 that the Bengal Famine was ameliorated. Many Historians place the blame on the greediness of Gujarati merchants ... so read a bit of nuance into your indignation.
@@frankyyaggabot6222 how were Indians responsible for food disbursement when the farmers were forced to pay their harvest as taxes even before the crops were harvested? How is it the Indian's fault when the British hoarded all the food and sent it to Europe as 'extra' during the World Wars despite knowing that Bengal was suffering from famine? How is it was indians' fault then how after independence there wasn't a single famine? You say many Indians profited from Britain but that doesn't change that the entire Western civilization profited from the plunder of India. How do you think enough cash flow was generated to fuel the industrial revolution? Of course, it was fueled by money plundered from India. You speak of 2 Million that call Britain their home as if that's supposed to mean anything, the count of dead indians is much higher, higher than H*tler's g*nocide.
MAHE in Kerala , where the people speak malayalam is also an Union Territory of Pondicherry (Now Puducherry). Puducherry, Karaikal, Yanam and Mahe comprise of The Union Territory of Puducherry.
I worked for the French people for nearly ten years in Australia and they were the most easygoing and relaxed people . I loved my years of working for them .
@@tunaktun3379 Rude ? Maybe for Parisians, definitely not the rest of French. But arrogant ? I think that only came up from English propaganda that don't like the idea of people not bowing to them. Aside of that, I don't see how people can call us arrogants. We might be one of the most self hating country out there, biggest consumers of anti-depressant. Most French think they are living in the worst country in the world. French are a lot of things, but not arrogant.
Cheers from France ! Glad to see a place on earth where we are not hated for no reason other than Anglo-Saxon, or now Russian, propaganda. I hope one day i'll go to India and especially Pondichéry as we say here. Tribute to your soldiers dead for our country, and honor to your people !
@@harismyers1329 Like you are not aware of the constant lack of respect, from the little jokes to the complete misrepresentation of the culture and the people in general. I never, litteraly never see a youtube video made by an american or an englishman, concerning every topics about France, like history, technology, I never see a video without a little offesive joke, or worst. Meanwhile you don't see this kind of things in videos made by french content creators.
As a European you should have known that Anglo Saxons are like the Franks or the Visigoths. They no longer exist. Anglo Saxons were conquered by the Normans which completely changed their language and culture and merged both groups, as well as the Norse living there into a new identity. Also…nobody hates French.
@@carthkaras6449maybe you’re too sensitive. I see the comments in those videos that make those small jokes and French people are laughing and going along with it. The more sensitive you are, the more people will do it.
India is very large diverse 1) 6 season 2) 121 Regonise language many lang 3) every skin color of people 4) different landscape like desert, forest, mountain, glacior etc 5) rich people, poor people, middle people 6) different cultures and tradition and clothes 7) Manny religion 8) Peaceful city Rishikesh as well as yoga city mordern city like Arocity, bengaluru, mumbai many more 9) every type of people vegan, vegetarian, non vegetarian 10) deferent I lands and tribal communities Etc many diversity but still United. Jai Bharat.🙏
Indians in general have always absorbed the cultures of outsiders happily. The ancient Sanskrit phrase from the 2nd century BCE still drives the Indian Hindu mindset-- "Vasudhaiva kutumbakam" which means "The world is one family".... very few nations have this deeply ingrained in them for millennia, India being the foremost one
@@darlenedagher7235 so you’ve never heard of the massacres the British committed against Indians (across 20th and 19th century). Do you not know about the India Gate in Delhi which commemorates all the fallen Indian soldiers who were kidnapped by British forces and largely untrained and forced to fight in First World War in 1914? Do you not know about Bengal Famine (which btw never repeated after British left)? Do you not know about British trying to sow divisions between the religions in places where previously there wasn’t rivalry? Look the British needed India for their Indo-British Empire and hence didn’t commit genocides but to say it wasn’t aggressive is laughably naive. And btw India had its own rich history of math, science and health that was interrupted because of Islamist rule. The Hindu Vedic tradition inherently focuses on sciences- in American medical school books it is always pointed out that the first plastic surgeries were conducted in Ancient India and there is a whole Sanskrit surgery text written by Sushruta in 2nd century BC. Not to mention, the many mathematicians like Pingala, Virahanka, Aryabhatta all from 500BC to 1000 AD whose work is directly referenced today. And don’t even get me talking about our great philosophy schools like the atomistic Vaisheshika school or the non dual Advaita Vedanta tradition or the great Buddhist tradition which is spread all over the world. Look modern Indians don’t hate modern Englishmen and quite the contrary. But don’t warp history , there’s no need. Accept the facts and look towards a brighter future
Fun fact is many Indian citizens are still getting french pension for their services in france at that time who then returned back to india i knew many of them in Mahe a union territory which is under the control of puducherry
to be fair the French were some of the lightest touch Colonial empires allowing cultures to keep religions of their ancestors, nowhere near as bad as some terrible oclonialists like Ottoman, Japanese or Belgium
I don't really know about this but France literally destroyed all identities in metropolitan France for the standard french so I doubt that they were nicer with colonies than France itself
@@azzary8523 I mean Morocco,Algeria Tunisia etc are largely muslim and arabic like they were before colonisation, Cambodia is largely Bhuddist, Vietnam has become atheist true but thats more of the result of communism than colonisation. Pondicherry as shown in this video is mainly populated by locals and the local culture was not imposed upon. Compare this to south america where people are now firmly catholic and mixed or north america where people are lets say paler than the native inhabitants and significantly more protestant than the pre colonial population. In french colonies the locals were not wiped out australia style and local cultures were more respected.
@@oz9328 oh ok ! That's an interesting thing to study but in west Africa that's not really true they all speak French and are Christians. Probably not the same period of colonisation so not the same methods !
@@azzary8523 Some of French west Africa are Christian, half of Cote D'ivoire, Cameroun, half of Gabon Gabon,Togo and Madagascar as well but on top of the three countries I mentioned in my previous comment most French african colonies kept their islamic faith, Senegal, Comoros, Mali,Guinee, Burkina Faso,Djbouti,Chad Niger,Mauritania
I've noticed that in ex-colonies where they want to get rid of the colonial heritage by renaming cities, regions and other geographical markers, there is always friction and a constant "living in the past" with resentment and consequently, no progress is made. In the areas where they have accepted their history and embraced it, the people are more happy and peaceful.
It's also far easier for pondicherrians since the colonial rule was... Well, not the one in Algeria or Vietnam. Pondicherry was a french trading post and a french town in its own right, contrarily to many parts of the french colonial empire.
There was a temple called Original Manakkula vinayagar temple . Dont know whether it still goes by that name. Ponducherry is seen as an extension of T Nadu. Most of the population are tamilians.
The French rule in Pondicherry wasn't an aggressive one unlike the British rule. There was no Suppression of the natives instead the two cultures amalgamated and that's why people of Pondicherry haven't thrown away their French culture.
Interesting short video about Pondichéry (that's how city is called in French). In general, I find it much easier to understand Indians speaking English than people from the US.
I when to Pondicherry consulate almost 15 years ago, for Schengen Visa , I had to go there again to pick up the documents I had given them were original documents ,I the gentleman over there gave me back , it was nice building , Pondicherry was too hot for me , people used to close shop afternoon because of the heat. Later when in France I came across many Tamils in France , seems they had dual citizenship. Interesting thing is I got my documents when back from France trip.
Small correction, although the Képi is worn by the French army, it came to Pondichéry because of the French Gendarme (local police) and remained in the Pondichéry police force
@@jonasweber9408 thanks for the correction. I will go to bed a little more knowledgeable tonight 😋 However, the gens-d-armes, although attached to the military are responsible for rural policing and still are in French countryside today. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie
@@jonasweber9408 municipal police are found in towns of a certain size, not in villages. You are more likely to cross a Gendarme in French countryside than the police
😊🙏 Love these small pockets of French culture in Asia where many of these French culture & architectures still being preserved alongside their native way of life ... A marriage that preserved the best of both cultures of a more glorious yester years in these places otherwise would had been lost to due to unnecessary anti-colonial political sentiments ... 🌷🌿🌎💜🕊🇮🇳🇫🇷
LOL In geopolitical terms, Indian geo political enthusiasts consider France to be it's new Russia because France is very pragmatic country and have used VETO to safeguard India's interest.... India buy more weaponry from France than USA just because France is a reliable partner unlike USA who do follow transactional relationship model....
@@JHenry906 Only a matter time before a chinese fella appears to brag about colonies and colonialism while using western names, copying western habits and technology, building western theme parks all over the country and clicking selfies infront of them!
The French influence worldwide is decreasing due to globalization where English is the primary language and US/UK is the dominant cultural influence. You will see the same pattern even in Canada/Quebec.
Why so many bots in comments? Where are the real humans? Puducherry / Pondicherry is a nice beach town. On the otherside of Indian peninsula there is Kochi, also has beautiful Dutch, Portuguese colonial architecture and a Jew town too.
It's like Shanghai's Former French Concession, the most treasured part of Shanghai. Every weekend, Wukang Rd. (武康路) is packed with tourists who want to experience a bit of that old French charm.
@@tonywang4032 Not really - a concession is a free trade zone with very limited autonomy and not a sovereign land. The French didn't colonize China, in fact nobody did, neither in area nor in time though unfair treaties were forced on the Qing. Shanghai has always been a world city with fascinating history visible in its architecture. Without foreign trade/concessions, it would have been a fishing village. Hangzhou/Suzhou were the big cities in the area.
Cultural influences are influences for south india whether its coming from north india or French. But I guess french would be preferred over it as it seems decent, civil and less goon culture.
What can we say? Somebody, somewhere, will always find a reason to put a group of people above some other group of people based on their own cherrypicked reasons.
@misterbig9025 Pondicherry was a small fishing village ruled by French. When they ruled they treated French and tamil equally. Now Pondicherry became a tourist spot because of French legacy. From small fishing village to today tourist destination is the reason love for french. There is no master thing at all.
British, French, Dutch,Portuguese, and all the various countries have had their influence on India, we just to recognise it and move forward, no point fighting about the past. We all have to look forward and work together for bright future of our people.
@IndianStreetShittersPajeet The problem with being an idiotic troll is that you lack all credibility and gravitas and so your attempted insults fall flat. Welcome to your reality.... 🤡
@@pradman81 Tamil Nadu is under sphere of Portuguese influence. That's why Tamil Nadu have catholic Christian instead of Protestant like North eastern states.
the story of the indian family leaving India for going to Canada is just a piece of art of indian cinema... the so called friendship between a young indian man and a tiger is amazing !! I looooooove this movie.... I suggest everyone to see this under rated "chef d'oeuvre".....
Nostalgia by the Colonials you mean. The city is very pretty and interesting to contrast with British occupied Tamil Nadu. A disgrace that this French enclave wasn't handed over to India until 1954. The French tend to impose their culture and language on their territorities. In some places, they still haven't let go, New Caledonia and French Guyana. The British crime of partition of the subcontinent will always outway French colonial tyranny
Also there are other enclaves of pondicherry like Karaikal (TN) , Mahe ( in Kerala and my hometown! ) and Yanam ( Andhra) where too there are still locals with French citizenship..also it is seen lot of Pondicherrians have moved to Reunion islands as the weather unlike France is more tropical.
India is most diverse country so we don't need to travel in foreign countries if someone just visited all states it's like enough one revolution of Earth 😂😂
@@drakenkraken8455Have you seen this situation at large scale in ground reality or just in media , news , articles .IF NOT , YOUR WORDS HAVE NO VALUE OR IMPACT .Even a mindless person with a independent thinking knows the dofference between ground reality and Statistics. BASIC SOCIAL SCIENCE CONCEPT--- STATISTICS DOESN'T EMPHASIZE ON GROUND REALITY, IT'S JUST AN IDEA . Statistics depend in how big your respondents are , the bigger the more viable
it's more about people's mentality. Most north Indian and south Indians have this attitude that it's someone else job to clean their own homes. So that attitude is also seen in the streets.@@praneethjayasimha5943
Chandannagore in west bengal was a french enclave. Beautiful little town. They support france in world cup. I love it., their neighbours are Srerampore a dutch town, on the other sode is Bandel, a Portuguese town. ... and there kis Kolkata, the big British town.
i am punjabi my brother had explored french history speically their colonies in india he said french was as brutual as british , he also said french destroyed many temple and made churches in south
Can´t there be two words to express the same thing? It´s called dialects. Different regions have different words for the same thing. We hould appreciate linguistic diversity and not try to eradicate all dialects for one standard language.
there is literally a spelling mistake on the signpost on the left at 0:08, which is ironic because l'alliance française's role is to promote the french language !
But i wanna say that Europe is reluctant when it comes to embracing diversity and multiculturalism they just try to spread their western pride upon others
Fascinating how many cultures and influences have been part of India's history
I tell you - turkish, iranian, dutch, portuguess, french, english, chinese , japanese , korean, thai, malaysian and few more.
@CargoCrew-kx8sv it's just that u are consuming lot of news articles in a day. Change ur routine. Truth will not appear false to u.
@CargoCrew-kx8sv thhhaannnkk you!
This is not French culture, its Indians 'Kicked Out' French Nepolian😀. poor french had lost its colony , distroyed from the begining
I dont think your people would find it fascinating if they were continuously invaded and colonized.
The South China Morning Post journalists would get in trouble if they said that many in Hong-Kong are nostalgic of their colonial days. They got some Pondicheriens to say it instead.
fairly sure the hong kong inhabitants are fairly neutral towards the colonial past
@@evryatis9231 They preffered British rule over Chinese, which is also a reason why so many people fled Hong Kong by the late 90's
Stockholm Syndrome in Indians，Hong Kong people don’t，, Hong Kong people worship their own traditional Chinese culture
@@marcelo497 they were taught a mythical version of what british rule was. few in the older generation who remember what it was like wants that. you can look up the pictures and see what the british did.
@@Kneecap22 What you said doesn't even make sense, anyone over 30 years old remember the the British rule, it's not like it was such long time ago that people would be nostalgic about it.
One more reason is that many anti-british rebels actually found refuge in pondicherry, same in chandannagar of West Bengal, although it was smaller
yeah peopl really forget about the other french colonies in india.
I grew up in a former French colonial town in India,West Bengal. The town has two churches. The smaller roads still have french names. There is a French Museum. The town helped freedom fighters against British during independence as it was under French jurisdiction. In fact the founder of Azad Hind army was born here, Rasbihari bose.
French rule was more liberal and people were allowed govt jobs and get into colleges and etc etc.british was more aggressive with fewer people in govt jobs and admissions into colleges
Unfortunately the opposite thing happened in Africa
@@jerryberry5480 and Vietnam
@@jerryberry5480 we dont anymore about them.
@@jerryberry5480 the genocides that Europeans committed can't forgotten neither by Africans or Indians.
@@jerryberry5480The British enslaved Indians but the French couldnt get power there because they were also at war with the British
when france won the world cup thousands of people celebrated it on the beach
U mean when Africa won the WC
@@ERICTENHAG56 lol
@@ERICTENHAG56ur getting sacked mate
@@ERICTENHAG56 you mean that being black forbids you from being french?
@@ERICTENHAG56The only Team with africans and the managed to win 1 world Cup because of a White Coach.
Corrected you
One obvious part missing of this Pondichéry postcard are the locals playing pétanque, the French game of boules, so prevalent in southern France.
and everywhere else i may say i live in the north of france there is a lot of petanque here too
The French weren't any saints either but they were nowhere near as diabolical as the British.
In India french were 10000s times better
Don't tell this to the africans. It's the opposite for them lowkey 😂.
So diabolical that 2 million Indians call Britain home and that millions more inhabit the countries of the old British Empire. The British Empire was a ticket to fortune for many Indians. Incidentally everybody goes on about Famines but ignores the fact that Indians were themselves responsible for food dispersement and it was only when the British Indian Army took control of it in 1943 that the Bengal Famine was ameliorated. Many Historians place the blame on the greediness of Gujarati merchants ... so read a bit of nuance into your indignation.
@@frankyyaggabot6222 how were Indians responsible for food disbursement when the farmers were forced to pay their harvest as taxes even before the crops were harvested? How is it the Indian's fault when the British hoarded all the food and sent it to Europe as 'extra' during the World Wars despite knowing that Bengal was suffering from famine? How is it was indians' fault then how after independence there wasn't a single famine? You say many Indians profited from Britain but that doesn't change that the entire Western civilization profited from the plunder of India. How do you think enough cash flow was generated to fuel the industrial revolution? Of course, it was fueled by money plundered from India. You speak of 2 Million that call Britain their home as if that's supposed to mean anything, the count of dead indians is much higher, higher than H*tler's g*nocide.
@@darlenedagher7235 Newspaper were not controlled by Indians obviously.
Yanam town is also part of Puducherry State , where people speak Telugu Language.
But head quarter is puducherry.
MAHE in Kerala , where the people speak malayalam is also an Union Territory of Pondicherry (Now Puducherry).
Puducherry,
Karaikal,
Yanam and Mahe comprise of The Union Territory of Puducherry.
Such diversities in India incredible 🇮🇳
Incredible body odor
Says a Street Pewppping Manual Scavenger from India
@misterbig9025 Please, I beg you, get a life.
@@misterbig9025incredible mindset of yours
@@misterbig9025you just can't digest the positives
I worked for the French people for nearly ten years in Australia and they were the most easygoing and relaxed people . I loved my years of working for them .
Oh c mon don't like that. I do like the French culture and history but the French are easily the most arrogant rude people.
@@tunaktun3379
Rude ? Maybe for Parisians, definitely not the rest of French.
But arrogant ? I think that only came up from English propaganda that don't like the idea of people not bowing to them. Aside of that, I don't see how people can call us arrogants. We might be one of the most self hating country out there, biggest consumers of anti-depressant. Most French think they are living in the worst country in the world.
French are a lot of things, but not arrogant.
@@mrsupremegascon I totally agree with you, French people really do think they live in the worst country on earth it's crazy haha
Manchuria , macau ,hong kong , tibet, east turkestan and many more also feel nostalgic eagerly waiting for the documentaries on them as well
Cheers from France ! Glad to see a place on earth where we are not hated for no reason other than Anglo-Saxon, or now Russian, propaganda. I hope one day i'll go to India and especially Pondichéry as we say here. Tribute to your soldiers dead for our country, and honor to your people !
Anglo Saxon propaganda? can you explain (Brit here - So would love to hear you opinion)
@zasalameleuh2289 welcome to namma Pondicherry🙂 there are many tourist places in our Tamilnadu pondicherry🙂
@@harismyers1329 Like you are not aware of the constant lack of respect, from the little jokes to the complete misrepresentation of the culture and the people in general. I never, litteraly never see a youtube video made by an american or an englishman, concerning every topics about France, like history, technology, I never see a video without a little offesive joke, or worst. Meanwhile you don't see this kind of things in videos made by french content creators.
As a European you should have known that Anglo Saxons are like the Franks or the Visigoths. They no longer exist. Anglo Saxons were conquered by the Normans which completely changed their language and culture and merged both groups, as well as the Norse living there into a new identity. Also…nobody hates French.
@@carthkaras6449maybe you’re too sensitive. I see the comments in those videos that make those small jokes and French people are laughing and going along with it. The more sensitive you are, the more people will do it.
India is very large diverse
1) 6 season
2) 121 Regonise language many lang
3) every skin color of people
4) different landscape like desert, forest, mountain, glacior etc
5) rich people, poor people, middle people
6) different cultures and tradition and clothes
7) Manny religion
8) Peaceful city Rishikesh as well as yoga city mordern city like Arocity, bengaluru, mumbai many more
9) every type of people vegan, vegetarian, non vegetarian
10) deferent I lands and tribal communities
Etc many diversity but still United.
Jai Bharat.🙏
All this plus brute tyranny of the majority !!!
@@darlenedagher7235No one said it's paradise .Stop worshipping British mf they aren't saints
The French gave same rights to citizens of Pondicherry, the British on the other hand used Indians as slaves. That's the difference.
Wised, smart people… keeping the culture ,
, instead of rejecting this amazing richessness of multiple cultures..
because it wasnt aggressive and imposing...unlike Islamic invasion and British colonisation
yeah the British were not like the French, they were evil and thieving
Indians in general have always absorbed the cultures of outsiders happily. The ancient Sanskrit phrase from the 2nd century BCE still drives the Indian Hindu mindset-- "Vasudhaiva kutumbakam" which means "The world is one family".... very few nations have this deeply ingrained in them for millennia, India being the foremost one
And a lot of these cultures are INDIANIZED.
@@darlenedagher7235 so you’ve never heard of the massacres the British committed against Indians (across 20th and 19th century). Do you not know about the India Gate in Delhi which commemorates all the fallen Indian soldiers who were kidnapped by British forces and largely untrained and forced to fight in First World War in 1914? Do you not know about Bengal Famine (which btw never repeated after British left)? Do you not know about British trying to sow divisions between the religions in places where previously there wasn’t rivalry? Look the British needed India for their Indo-British Empire and hence didn’t commit genocides but to say it wasn’t aggressive is laughably naive.
And btw India had its own rich history of math, science and health that was interrupted because of Islamist rule. The Hindu Vedic tradition inherently focuses on sciences- in American medical school books it is always pointed out that the first plastic surgeries were conducted in Ancient India and there is a whole Sanskrit surgery text written by Sushruta in 2nd century BC. Not to mention, the many mathematicians like Pingala, Virahanka, Aryabhatta all from 500BC to 1000 AD whose work is directly referenced today. And don’t even get me talking about our great philosophy schools like the atomistic Vaisheshika school or the non dual Advaita Vedanta tradition or the great Buddhist tradition which is spread all over the world.
Look modern Indians don’t hate modern Englishmen and quite the contrary. But don’t warp history , there’s no need. Accept the facts and look towards a brighter future
Fun fact is many Indian citizens are still getting french pension for their services in france at that time who then returned back to india i knew many of them in Mahe a union territory which is under the control of puducherry
*I know China pain and propoganda on India 🇮🇳 🤝France 🇫🇷 friendship growth* 😂😂😂
As a puducherrian I love this craft.
monsieur tu parle francais ?
France me kitne Indian craft hy
Don't allow marwadi bihari up even muslim people in pondicherry they will distroy peace in pondicherry
My granddad is from here and my mam is born and bred French. Very proud to be French and mostly proud to be Tamil/Indian!
to be fair the French were some of the lightest touch Colonial empires allowing cultures to keep religions of their ancestors, nowhere near as bad as some terrible oclonialists like Ottoman, Japanese or Belgium
Go say that to Africa and they will beat u
I don't really know about this but France literally destroyed all identities in metropolitan France for the standard french so I doubt that they were nicer with colonies than France itself
@@azzary8523 I mean Morocco,Algeria Tunisia etc are largely muslim and arabic like they were before colonisation, Cambodia is largely Bhuddist, Vietnam has become atheist true but thats more of the result of communism than colonisation. Pondicherry as shown in this video is mainly populated by locals and the local culture was not imposed upon. Compare this to south america where people are now firmly catholic and mixed or north america where people are lets say paler than the native inhabitants and significantly more protestant than the pre colonial population. In french colonies the locals were not wiped out australia style and local cultures were more respected.
@@oz9328 oh ok ! That's an interesting thing to study but in west Africa that's not really true they all speak French and are Christians. Probably not the same period of colonisation so not the same methods !
@@azzary8523 Some of French west Africa are Christian, half of Cote D'ivoire, Cameroun, half of Gabon Gabon,Togo and Madagascar as well but on top of the three countries I mentioned in my previous comment most French african colonies kept their islamic faith, Senegal, Comoros, Mali,Guinee, Burkina Faso,Djbouti,Chad Niger,Mauritania
We, people of Pondicherry love France, its cusine, language and cinema.
Im a Pondicherien... Born in JIPMER Hospital. Happy to see this Video. Peaceful Pondicherry, Give Time a Break!
Are you a tamil
@@tunaktun3379 I'm a Malayali
I've noticed that in ex-colonies where they want to get rid of the colonial heritage by renaming cities, regions and other geographical markers, there is always friction and a constant "living in the past" with resentment and consequently, no progress is made. In the areas where they have accepted their history and embraced it, the people are more happy and peaceful.
It's also far easier for pondicherrians since the colonial rule was... Well, not the one in Algeria or Vietnam. Pondicherry was a french trading post and a french town in its own right, contrarily to many parts of the french colonial empire.
As a French it is very funny to see a tamul French version, we only know the Indian Michael Jackson, we laugh so much watching him in school
Reminds me of HONG KONG how they loved BRITISH COLONIALISM ❤ from INDIA 🇮🇳 to SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST JOURNALISTS 😊
Vive la France 💙🤍❤
Pondicherry is for drinking tax free beer 🍺🍻 for Bangalore software developers 😂😂
😂 Bonjour brother!
For Chennaiites too.
@@daredevil30000 no IT industry in Chennai
@@Adinasa2 Seriously? 😒
Chennai is the 3rd largest IT hub after BLR, HYD.
@@daredevil30000 Chennai doesn't allow outsiders to work except for Tamilians
There was a temple called Original Manakkula vinayagar temple . Dont know whether it still goes by that name.
Ponducherry is seen as an extension of T Nadu. Most of the population are tamilians.
This temple still exists with the same name.
The French rule in Pondicherry wasn't an aggressive one unlike the British rule. There was no Suppression of the natives instead the two cultures amalgamated and that's why people of Pondicherry haven't thrown away their French culture.
the local population are proud of their heritage.
French colonial architecture in always classy and respectful always a mix between France and the locals in Algeria there is amazing buildings too
I'm from Pondicherry
Interesting short video about Pondichéry (that's how city is called in French).
In general, I find it much easier to understand Indians speaking English than people from the US.
I'm from pondicherry ❤
French in Puducherry: 🕺🕺🕺
British in Kolkata: 👹👹👹
Portuguese in Goa: 💀💀💀
Bharatiya in Independent Bharat: 🗿🗿🗿
Biggest joke ever heard 😂😂😂
From Pondicherry and livin it 🎉
I when to Pondicherry consulate almost 15 years ago, for Schengen Visa , I had to go there again to pick up the documents I had given them were original documents ,I the gentleman over there gave me back , it was nice building , Pondicherry was too hot for me , people used to close shop afternoon because of the heat. Later when in France I came across many Tamils in France , seems they had dual citizenship. Interesting thing is I got my documents when back from France trip.
at 1:26 it’s a 404 Peugeot 1970 ; )… charming town 😍
Small correction, although the Képi is worn by the French army, it came to Pondichéry because of the French Gendarme (local police) and remained in the Pondichéry police force
Small correction, the gendarmerie is part of the military, the local police is called « police municipale » 😊 Take care
@@jonasweber9408 thanks for the correction. I will go to bed a little more knowledgeable tonight 😋
However, the gens-d-armes, although attached to the military are responsible for rural policing and still are in French countryside today.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie
@@jonasweber9408 municipal police are found in towns of a certain size, not in villages. You are more likely to cross a Gendarme in French countryside than the police
Incredible india!!
At 0:46 you can see my uncle chilling at the beach with his friend 😂😂😂😂😂 he’s going to be so taken aback when I show this to him.
Lol who is your uncle
😊🙏 Love these small pockets of French culture in Asia where many of these French culture & architectures still being preserved alongside their native way of life ... A marriage that preserved the best of both cultures of a more glorious yester years in these places otherwise would had been lost to due to unnecessary anti-colonial political sentiments ... 🌷🌿🌎💜🕊🇮🇳🇫🇷
Surely, but not all places and peoples with french presence have been threated the same.
Stockholm syndrome at its finest
Stockholm syndrome at its best
@@Tijaxtolan We love our European masters so much
Nikal bdsk k France india tujh jaise haram khoro k liye nhi hy.. khoon de k ajadi li hy Britain or France se gaddar😡
Macron should have visited Pondicherry
For governments I can't say but for a common Frenchman like me I have a lot of friendship for the Indian people.
LOL In geopolitical terms, Indian geo political enthusiasts consider France to be it's new Russia because France is very pragmatic country and have used VETO to safeguard India's interest.... India buy more weaponry from France than USA just because France is a reliable partner unlike USA who do follow transactional relationship model....
Now please make a little video on portuguese and british colonies in china. Thank you!
That would be interesting.
Their colonization in China left nothing except the influence of language... There are also historical buildings during the Concession period.
@@MurmureL-oy3wl They have also left religion, customs, food, dressing etc,. in addition to those you mentioned. I saw them.
@@neilmanx1001 China was never a western colony unlike india. So they didn't have much of a colony in China except some tiny ports.
@@JHenry906 Only a matter time before a chinese fella appears to brag about colonies and colonialism while using western names, copying western habits and technology, building western theme parks all over the country and clicking selfies infront of them!
Saying Puducheri instead of Pondicherry says it all 😅
It's my home town guys
the French Empire was a real Empire.
Vow I have lived in this state for few years. A small state with few streets. You will see this Rue Rue everywhere.
"rue rue"😂
French converted many Indian to Christianity in Pondecherry
How many years did French rule in India?

The time span for the French presence in India is very long: nearly three centuries from 1674 to 1954.
ChandanNagar was also most important French colonial rule in india
Sadly, the town is losing it's unique Indo-French heritage and culture to mindless commercialization..
The French influence worldwide is decreasing due to globalization where English is the primary language and US/UK is the dominant cultural influence. You will see the same pattern even in Canada/Quebec.
Well, there's my learning for the day. Never knew the French had colonies in India.
Why so many bots in comments? Where are the real humans?
Puducherry / Pondicherry is a nice beach town. On the otherside of Indian peninsula there is Kochi, also has beautiful Dutch, Portuguese colonial architecture and a Jew town too.
They are China's information warfare army. Chinese use them for spreading propaganda or influencing people from other countries.
Yes so many Chin%se pr0panda bots.
There is lot of ccp boats whi always write bad things
India is home of freedom and many religions 😮😊
Not for the UNTOUCHABLES it isn't!!!!
freedom to swim in polluted river
Hindus mobs...
@@sexgod6909dalit does not mean religion.
@@schivverI think their rivers are not as polluted as your brain.
It's like Shanghai's Former French Concession, the most treasured part of Shanghai. Every weekend, Wukang Rd. (武康路) is packed with tourists who want to experience a bit of that old French charm.
The French Concession is a result of colonization, not something to be proud of.
@@tonywang4032 Proud or not, people love it!
@@tonywang4032 No you see what we see. It was a bit of surprise seeing this from SCMP. But i understood perfectly what they are doing!!
@@tonywang4032 Not really - a concession is a free trade zone with very limited autonomy and not a sovereign land. The French didn't colonize China, in fact nobody did, neither in area nor in time though unfair treaties were forced on the Qing. Shanghai has always been a world city with fascinating history visible in its architecture. Without foreign trade/concessions, it would have been a fishing village. Hangzhou/Suzhou were the big cities in the area.
its really beautiful..I always felt he beauty of india in the beauty of east meets west
So why did the French treat the Indians with respect and dignity, but they treated the Vietnamese like garbage?
We treat the indians and the vietnameese as same, except that Vietnam has became Communist
Because of the British, the enemy of both India and France at that time .
because they want to make case for themselves as they were better than british
because "enemy of my enemy is my friend"
Puducherry is a teritorry used for trading with India where as Vietnam is a colony (used for looting).
I love Pondicherry ❤
Cultural influences are influences for south india whether its coming from north india or French.
But I guess french would be preferred over it as it seems decent, civil and less goon culture.
Only fools like you would call Indian culture less decent.
What can we say? Somebody, somewhere, will always find a reason to put a group of people above some other group of people based on their own cherrypicked reasons.
😂😂. Politicians in southern india has made their people feel that they're somehow superior than the rest of the Indians.
@user-cg8rj2qm4l being educated, civil and mannered seems superpower to south
Then definitely yes
@@pikachuthunderbolt3919 also being 🌚 is your super power. Oh and voting in People like Stalin is your super power
🇫🇷If Napoleon were continued reign India would be a France colony
We tamils love French❤ most of the french jasmine perfumes are made from jasmines of Tamilnadu. Bastille day is also celebrated in our pondicherry.
Yup❤
We love European masters so much
@misterbig9025 Pondicherry was a small fishing village ruled by French. When they ruled they treated French and tamil equally. Now Pondicherry became a tourist spot because of French legacy. From small fishing village to today tourist destination is the reason love for french. There is no master thing at all.
@@josejoseph8725 exactly
We Chinese love our Japanese masters too❤
@@misterbig9025
British, French, Dutch,Portuguese, and all the various countries have had their influence on India, we just to recognise it and move forward, no point fighting about the past. We all have to look forward and work together for bright future of our people.
🇹🇼 ❤
If people are okay with what works in their community then what works stays.
French enriched us and made our cities beautiful 😍❤️
Yeah you guys begged for rice and converted you😂
Frenc entish uz ind med avar sitiz butiful 🤡
@@BuddhistRajput I'm not even Christian or live in here you typical jealous insecure endian boi
Literal 🤡
Ummm bro u are suffering from Stockholm syndrome 😢
@@SarojSingh-nq5ql no
Chandannagar, Karaikal, Yanam and Mahe are other Indian cities with French roots.
proud to be colonised 😅
Grow up.
@IndianStreetShittersPajeet The problem with being an idiotic troll is that you lack all credibility and gravitas and so your attempted insults fall flat.
Welcome to your reality.... 🤡
@IndianStreetShittersPajeet The problem with being a idiotic troll is that your comments lack gravitas so Amy insults you make tend to fall flat.
Brits did indians hard. French were gentle. Did right amount so they wanna more
LOL we don't harbour bad for the current generation of UK and France....those who did bad things to India were gone long ago...
We Tamil peoples love French and Portuguese. Because these two peoples are not like British and Dutch. Dutch is one of the dark age of Tamil history.
We were lucky that Portuguese did not gain power here in Tamil Nadu. The Poetuguese brought the Inquisition to Goa.
Didn't marthanda varma made the dutch run away from india?
@@karankrishnakanth Dutch invaded Tamil parts of srilanka. That's why Tamils are in Suriname, Guyana, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa and Singapore.
@@pradman81 Tamil Nadu is under sphere of Portuguese influence. That's why Tamil Nadu have catholic Christian instead of Protestant like North eastern states.
@@pradman81 Dutch and Portuguese ruled all Tamil parts of srilanka. Srilankan Tamil hate Dutch more than Portuguese and British.
My hometown in China News.. thank you
There was no marriage of culture but french helped Indians against the British by giving modern medieval technology to make canons to Indian kings.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
What about Taiwan country...... very beautiful Country
This reminds me of the beautiful cinematography of Life if Pi directed by Ang Lee. Beautiful film.
the story of the indian family leaving India for going to Canada is just a piece of art of indian cinema... the so called friendship between a young indian man and a tiger is amazing !! I looooooove this movie....
I suggest everyone to see this under rated "chef d'oeuvre".....
Nostalgia by the Colonials you mean. The city is very pretty and interesting to contrast with British occupied Tamil Nadu. A disgrace that this French enclave wasn't handed over to India until 1954. The French tend to impose their culture and language on their territorities. In some places, they still haven't let go, New Caledonia and French Guyana. The British crime of partition of the subcontinent will always outway French colonial tyranny
I love puducherry❤ amazing people and an amazing place to have fun with ur mates
Do they have body odor?
@@misterbig9025 man why are you looking for trouble everywhere
@@The_Black_Capshe's attention seeker
@@arpitshivhare217 fr
@misterbig9025 bot
We indians foundly cherish the Japanese era in china aahhh beautiful days
French were not thivies unlike brits
Hope typing that out felt clever.
Also there are other enclaves of pondicherry like Karaikal (TN) , Mahe ( in Kerala and my hometown! ) and Yanam ( Andhra) where too there are still locals with French citizenship..also it is seen lot of Pondicherrians have moved to Reunion islands as the weather unlike France is more tropical.
India is most diverse country so we don't need to travel in foreign countries if someone just visited all states it's like enough one revolution of Earth 😂😂
A Toiletless Earth maybe
@@drakenkraken8455you may be mindless person
@@drakenkraken8455Have you seen this situation at large scale in ground reality or just in media , news , articles .IF NOT , YOUR WORDS HAVE NO VALUE OR IMPACT .Even a mindless person with a independent thinking knows the dofference between ground reality and Statistics.
BASIC SOCIAL SCIENCE CONCEPT--- STATISTICS DOESN'T EMPHASIZE ON GROUND REALITY, IT'S JUST AN IDEA .
Statistics depend in how big your respondents are , the bigger the more viable
@@drakenkraken8455A mindless comment may be
@@drakenkraken8455Sorry it's not like you think
We fondly remember the Nanking incidents.
Wow french colony was more beutifull and cleaner than india
south india has less population, ofcourse it will be clean
it's more about people's mentality.
Most north Indian and south Indians have this attitude that it's someone else job to clean their own homes.
So that attitude is also seen in the streets.@@praneethjayasimha5943
Former French colony is cleaner then present day paris 😂
@@hritikraghuwanshi2049😂true tho
Still not The Cleanest It's Indore A City In Central India
No one fondly remembers our invaders or Bharat’s invaders whether be Islamic or Christian invaders.
Maybe China remembers Japan fondly but we don’t.
Are French whites learning Tamil and Hindi ?
Not Hindi....no hindi in south...
There are people from many countries living in the Aurobindo ashram.
The French President could have visited Pondicherry.
That's how you keep mental colonialism alive
Man colonialism is history get used to it I am from Paris and I love Roman remains echoes of the colonial past of ROME everywhere in France …
Chandannagore in west bengal was a french enclave. Beautiful little town. They support france in world cup. I love it., their neighbours are Srerampore a dutch town, on the other sode is Bandel, a Portuguese town. ... and there kis Kolkata, the big British town.
i am punjabi my brother had explored french history speically their colonies in india he said french was as brutual as british , he also said french destroyed many temple and made churches in south
1:37
Toulouse: It's not "Pain au chocolat", but "Chocolatine"
Can´t there be two words to express the same thing? It´s called dialects. Different regions have different words for the same thing. We hould appreciate linguistic diversity and not try to eradicate all dialects for one standard language.
wow im impressed
Ha! Ha! they said" pains au chocolat " and not" chocolatines"(sorry...french private joke)
Ahhh non, je suis déçu, c'est chocolatine😢 (Québec) hahaha
A Bombay ils disent chocolatines ... C'est des ploucs ! Que voulez-vous que je vous dise....
quebec moment
there is literally a spelling mistake on the signpost on the left at 0:08, which is ironic because l'alliance française's role is to promote the french language !
Lol. Everyone looted and partied in India !
Ask north africans what they think of French colonisation.
North Africans hate everyone.
All french colonies were not fortunate like pondicherry read history of french colonialism in Vietnam and Africa
Haiti was brutal.
Taiwan and Hongkong are proud of their colonial culture too
This kind of diversities can only be seen in India
But i wanna say that Europe is reluctant when it comes to embracing diversity and multiculturalism they just try to spread their western pride upon others
What difference in two neighbor and their rule
One is monster
Other is friend