r/2mediterranean4u • u/Big_Ad_5470 Larps as an Extinct Race • Oct 08 '24

Maghreb classic (🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳🇱🇾) The duality of men

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u/Theycallmeahmed_ Anal Expert Oct 08 '24

One made them a part of their empire, the other colonized them for their resources...

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '24

Algeria had become an official part of France prior to its independence war, so in a way-

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u/OttomanKebabi Arabo-Indian Atagay Worshipper Oct 08 '24

Then France proceeded to send french colonists to Algeria,so no.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '24

No to what

Yeah, there were pied noirs and the bullshit citizenship laws, but TECHNICALLY they still were an official part of the french empire, even if it sucked to live in

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u/OttomanKebabi Arabo-Indian Atagay Worshipper Oct 08 '24

Just because Algeria was considered an integral territory doesn't mean Algerians were actually granted citizenship,you know? Most didn't have that

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '24

I literally said that when I mentioned the bullshit citizenship laws?

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u/OttomanKebabi Arabo-Indian Atagay Worshipper Oct 08 '24

That means they weren't part of the country,they were below it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '24

A nation doesn't suddenly disappear when it's people are legally oppressed, the territory was OFFICIALLY french but maghrebi and amazigh identity was still very much alive

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u/OttomanKebabi Arabo-Indian Atagay Worshipper Oct 08 '24

When i meant they were below it,I meant they were oppressed. Did you understand it differently?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '24

I did say "technically"