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

[@876DigitalMedia]

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]

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

[@FlatStella1]

so we are in 2 :P

[@philippebeillan6962]

welcome brother

[@mwakiosammy8301]

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

[@Jungletraveler00_12]

Amazing landscape !

[@enckidoofalling4519]

They completely neglected to mention this hotspot created the Deccan Traps

[@derplerp5777]

????

[@hakiranukayesuemmanuel8663]

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

[@esgee3829]

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]

They did find people there -

[@undefinedfr-fr]

@@humbulanimulaudzi7185 No, not on Reunion Island.

[@undefinedfr-fr]

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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@luanlopes9415]

Nice

[@wallendiaz]

Nice African Island

[@yunglordz5907]

The finest ladies on that island, no cap

[@americanreject0413]

I know how to be preserved stop visiting it 😂

[@handledav]

reunite

[@humbulanimulaudzi7185]

Its not France's - u stole it

[@undefinedfr-fr]

From who ?

[@nsgnsg4108]

@@undefinedfr-fr Africa

[@undefinedfr-fr]

@@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]

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

[@undefinedfr-fr]

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

[@loveisall5520]

Love animals--don't eat them!

[@maellatchimy2180]

🤨?

[@leowillow]

Circle of life babe

[@balqaasem]

Its a colonial theft

[@Lordi974]

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

[@pabloalvez915]

More cringe 😂

[@wallendiaz]

​Whether it was empty or not, that does not mean that geographically it belongs to the person who arrived there. France is more than 18,000 kilometers from this island, which is completely in African waters. Saying that this island belongs to France is like saying that the moon belongs to the first person who arrived on the moon. Your comment is the typical comment that one could hear from a Spaniard talking about the Canary Islands or a Portuguese talking about Madeira Island, That means that I, someone who is from the Caribbean, am going to look for some unpopulated land in some region inside France, I am going to inhabit it and then claim it as my own because I was the first to inhabit it.​@@Lordi974

[@onetwo3411]

Loser