France's Reunion Island, a land of contrasts • FRANCE 24 English

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  • Опубліковано 24 лис 2022
  • It's nicknamed the intense island. Located 10,000 kilometres from the French mainland, in the Indian Ocean, Reunion Island contains a thousand treasures for the senses. Some 40 percent of the territory is a UNESCO World Heritage site. On the coast, whale song punctuates the missions of oceanographers. Meanwhile, on the Grègues plantation, a bright orange root is harvested by hand to make a popular spice: turmeric.
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  • @876DigitalMedia
    @876DigitalMedia Рік тому +16

    I spent some time there visiting. It's an exceptionally beautiful island. Black sand beaches and an active volcano, Piton de la Fournaise. Incredible landscapes. Driving into Cilaos is a real experience.

  • @veranarosa8500
    @veranarosa8500 10 місяців тому +8

    I want to visit La Reunion one day. Such a beautiful island.

  • @Jungletraveler00_12
    @Jungletraveler00_12 Рік тому +8

    Amazing landscape !

  • @mwakiosammy8301
    @mwakiosammy8301 Рік тому +6

    Je dois visiter L'île de la Réunion cette année !

  • @hakiranukayesuemmanuel8663
    @hakiranukayesuemmanuel8663 10 місяців тому +1

    It’s like quite place ... small population I thought 💭 but so beautiful for conservation environment ❤

  • @enckidoofalling4519
    @enckidoofalling4519 Рік тому +11

    They completely neglected to mention this hotspot created the Deccan Traps

  • @luanlopes9415
    @luanlopes9415 6 місяців тому

    Nice

  • @esgee3829
    @esgee3829 Рік тому +15

    the most interesting thing about réunion to me is that it wasn't permanently inhabited by anyone before the french claiming it as theirs. of course they brought some slaves there, but they didn't decimate any indigenous people on the island itself. ok france, you can have it. but maybe the kanak can have back their islands instead of you sending more and more caldoche over for 'work' then encouraging another sham referendum?

    • @humbulanimulaudzi7185
      @humbulanimulaudzi7185 Рік тому +1

      They did find people there -

    • @undefinedfr-fr
      @undefinedfr-fr Рік тому +7

      @@humbulanimulaudzi7185 No, not on Reunion Island.

    • @undefinedfr-fr
      @undefinedfr-fr Рік тому +3

      There is a few misconceptions here. Caldoche people are the people of french ascent arrived long time ago. People that arrived recently from France aren't « caldoche », they would be « metro » I think. And they cannot vote if they arrived after 1994 (28 years ago !).
      I would not qualify the referendum as a sham referendum. But the result is obvious : it does not solve anything. First because there is only a slight majority in favour of staying within the French Republic. Second because it is not as if the population was homogeneously divided between leaving and remaining in the French Republic. One part of the population is native to the island, lives in a specific area and voted massively for France to leave their land, the other is of French origin, lives in the other area and voted massively for the land to remain inside the French Republic. Each side has its position and the two seem difficult to reconcile.
      It is up to France to demonstrate that it can now be trustworthy, respectful of the Kanaks and their legitimacy. Otherwise, it will have no choice but to leave them in peace.

    • @esgee3829
      @esgee3829 Рік тому +1

      @@undefinedfr-fr this is mostly bs. 60s and 70s, see that most of the kanaks want independence. see that nickel is actually valuable (and of course in great abundance there). decide to offer them a referendum. but then pack the ballot boxes by sending over wave upon wave of caldoche. and be sure, were another referendum called, there would surely be more packing. nice try. play again.

    • @undefinedfr-fr
      @undefinedfr-fr Рік тому +2

      @@esgee3829 As far as I know, the recent referendum was decided in 1988 and you couldn't vote if you arrived after 1994. My remark was more that I think the term « caldoche » is more used for long-time established europeans in New-Caledonia, and that the term « metro » is more appropriate to designate newly installed people from metropolitan France. So « sending waves of caldoche to new-caledonia » seems quite nonsensical, I would rather say « sending waves of french people from metropolitan France to new-caledonia ». And that the problem is not, in my opinion, the referendum being « sham ». I think it is more useless and irelevant than sham, because that France did not shift from a colonial behaviour to something more appropriate, fueling and legitimating the already legitimate and strong desire of the natives to ask France to leave.

  • @americanreject0413
    @americanreject0413 Рік тому +4

    I know how to be preserved stop visiting it 😂

  • @yunglordz5907
    @yunglordz5907 5 місяців тому

    The finest ladies on that island, no cap

  • @handledav
    @handledav 9 місяців тому

    reunite

  • @loveisall5520
    @loveisall5520 Рік тому +2

    Love animals--don't eat them!

  • @humbulanimulaudzi7185
    @humbulanimulaudzi7185 Рік тому +30

    Its not France's - u stole it

    • @undefinedfr-fr
      @undefinedfr-fr Рік тому +26

      From who ?

    • @nsgnsg4108
      @nsgnsg4108 Рік тому +5

      @@undefinedfr-fr Africa

    • @undefinedfr-fr
      @undefinedfr-fr Рік тому +39

      @@nsgnsg4108 Africa is a continent and the French did not use a boat to tow the island of Reunion to Europe, it is still in the Indian ocean. Who told you this silly story of the Reunion Island being stolen? Looks like a children's cartoon plot.

    • @nsgnsg4108
      @nsgnsg4108 Рік тому +2

      @@undefinedfr-fr It an african island I mean in a black people land

    • @undefinedfr-fr
      @undefinedfr-fr Рік тому +15

      @@nsgnsg4108 Which « black people land » comprised Reunion Island before being « stolen » exactly ?

  • @alfellati
    @alfellati 2 місяці тому +1

    Its a colonial theft

    • @Lordi974
      @Lordi974 2 місяці тому +2

      From who. There were no people. Spare us your ignorance

    • @pabloalvez915
      @pabloalvez915 15 днів тому

      More cringe 😂