This Country Wants A Passport But New Zealand Says No

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[@bigsalmon8762]

The cook islands really are paying a subscription to microsoft

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

They fell for an indian tech support scam.

[@10meisterballe]

Yeah, they are paying for Realms Pmus

[@LydiaMoMydia]

tim cook must be pissed

[@ianscott3697]

i guess you dont know how a subscription works, microsoft doesnt pay you to use it, New Zealand is still giving the cook island allowance to top their Kid (cook Island) up, and NZ is just asking the cook islands to think of moving out of home (at some point) and than get a passport, think about health care, cost of running your country, looking after your peoples needs first, New Zealand will alway be there to help the cook islands out,

[@BlueBlue-j4w]

Fake news. There's only one person who wants it. Not the country.

[@kentaylor2416]

NZ not saying Cook Islands can't have their own passport. NZ saying if they want independence, they can have it. The overwhelming majority of Cook Islanders want to keep the NZ passport.

[@Juttutin]

@@kentaylor2416 Greenlanders get there own passport (issued by Denmark), and the situation is nearly identical.

[@kentaylor2416]

@Juttutin Most Cook islanders want to keep the NZ passport.

[@Juttutin]

@kentaylor2416 Most Greenlanders want to keep their Greenlandic Danish passport. What's your point?

[@kentaylor2416]

@@Juttutin I made my point. See if you can work it out all by yourself.

[@Juttutin]

@@kentaylor2416 if you'd taken half a moment to put your brain into gear, you might have realised that you completely failed to either understand the point I was making, or make any responsive point whatsoever in your reply. I'm done.

[@liamkennedy3034]

That pronunciation of Niue wasn’t something I should have heard while having a drink

[@jjsyphor8288]

that threw me off too lolol

[@peterkotara]

Oh My God...YES.

[@brickviking667]

Just think of it as a "new way" to pronounce the country name. :-) - sorry, couldn't resist.

[@kioata]

@@brickviking667 I would say more "new where" but for some reason people have a hard enough time just saying "new way" and just say "new" lol

[@lucidnonsense942]

Yeah... that was so adorably Anglo, "I'm handicapped the second I see a foreign language" moment.

[@codebycarlos]

We need to have a tangent meter with different levels 😂

[@johnnzboy]

Winston Peters is indeed an extremely interesting politician - leader of a nationalist party who, in the last decade, has held high cabinet positions (in particular the Foreign Affairs minister) under a left-wing and now a right-wing government, and he brought his party back from extinction, from MPs in the previous parliament to being a member of the current coalition government - and this isn't even considering the first decades of his political career, after he first entered parliament in 1979! I can't say that I like him but he's the definition of a political animal and a survivor.

[@Dman6779]

parasite*, he's clung onto his job for so long now that hes become a household name, and had been for quite a while before the current government. among a bunch of new faces and ideas the geriatric portion of our society decided to give the baby what he wants and let him gut our economy

[@stephenjameson1439]

Winston Peter's is a criminal who uses young maori to get him seats to sway majority between the two parties

[@grantorino2325]

I'd just like to add that all appeals from the courts of both South Island, and North Island now go to the _Supreme Court of New Zealand_ 🇳🇿 in Wellington. But when said court was created, the governments of the Cook Islands 🇨🇰, Niue 🇳🇺, and Tokelau 🇹🇰 flatly refused to make it the new court of last resort. Instead, appeals from courts on those islands still go to the _Privy Council_ in London, England. 🇬🇧

[@DavidSolimano]

The masses yearn for the ministrations of His Britannic Majesty

[@peterkotara]

It's almost as if the the New Zealand Government didn't like the findings of the Privy Council regarding the Waitangi Tribunal grievances, and so decided to establish their own highest court so they could ignore them.

[@DavidSolimano]

@@peterkotara Common New Zealand L

[@AholeAtheist]

..both *Te Waka-a-Maui and Te Ika-a-Maui.

[@kentaylor2416]

@@peterkotara It's called independence.

[@IzzyThomas232]

As a Kiwi I found it very interesting going to the Cook Islands where they have a different flag, government, culture etc. etc. but the locals have the same passport as me and they are technically NZ citizens. I think it's very unlikely for the Cook Islands to ever have enough infrastructure to stand on its own feet and become an independent country.

[@peterkotara]

Frankly, New Zealands "oversight" is the only thing stopping China from debt trapping them into complete subservience. EDIT: I'm absolutely open to be corrected here.

[@michaeldoran6742]

Im a Kiwi as well. China will fill the void instantly. It's what they do

[@Yamezzzz]

New Zealand: "Only fully independent countries can have their own passport." Me with my British Isle of Man (non-UK) passport: 👁👄👁

[@ibx2cat]

You're a manx? Super fascinated by the island!!

[@rustyshackleford234]

Yeah what is it like living there?

[@rogink]

Any Maccie Ds?

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

Haha yeah NZ didn't do it's homework.. also UK.. having the British monarch on its money😊

[@getahanddown]

​@@ibx2cat ToyCat this has more to do with our (NZ) current government and Winston being a racist spanner in the works. Be careful making broad comments on this one

[@JamesJohnson-iq5wb]

ibx2cat: your town statistically has more people than greenland me who grew up in a town named "Greenland": *confused*

[@o_s-24]

We don't have McDonald's in Armenia. There are KFCs and Pizza Huts but no McDonald's, so I guess if you come here you can visit those, or a local chain like Mr. Gyros or Tumanyan Shaurma

[@Spacemongerr]

Oposite in Norway, we have McD but not KFC. Think there's one Pizza Hut

[@l.u.c.a.s.]

Now I wanna go to Armenia and visit Mr Gyros

[@sunsinger970]

lucky armenia

[@madi_esv]

samll correction at 6:40 , Åland does not have it's own language, Swedish(the language) is one of the official finish languages, and there are areas of majority Swedish speakers on the mainland. The Main difference being that in Åland there is no requirement to learn the Finnish language in school(even extends onto higher educations on the mainland for Ålandic citizens).

[@RCKennington]

It's more nuanced than what is being presented. I think the issue is not NZ saying you have to be independant to have passport It's about NZ citizenship, which Cook Islanders are entitled too. Through having a NZ passport they can also live and work in Australia as well as NZ. It is possible for countries to sell their citizenship to foriegners for profit like St Kits and Nevis do. NZ definately does not want people getting back door citizenship by purchasing a Cook Island passport. Even if you did not consider the Cook Islanders living in NZ they would have to stop the automatic NZ citizenship for Cook Island passport holders. If the Cook Islands wanted to keep the current perks but have a NZ /Cook Islands passport like Gurnsey or the Isle of Man have with Britain and not have the abillity to sell passports for profit I don't think there would be an issue other than it most likely just being an administrative hassle.

[@component9008]

Winston seems to be the main detractor for similar reasons to these.

[@kaimanawastudios]

As a kiwi. Fully support the government here. There is no reason for Cook Islands to get their own passport, new zeland passport allows access to almost any country in the world. By making a new passport cook islands would decrease their access to other countries. It would also come to a large cost to New Zealand as we would have to pay to set up this service, and maybe even subsidize it. It's a no Brainer, as there are no winners.

[@davidcampbell3642]

Let the Cook Islands people decide. Stop being so imperialist.

[@lucidnonsense942]

​​​@@davidcampbell3642 you are missing the point, if cook islands get a passport before going full independent it would, in effect, become a backdoor way to get a NZ passport and citizenship. Add in the habit of small Pacific islands raising revenue by selling passports and I think you should see the problem. In effect, it would give the Cook Islands control of NZ's migration policy. It's nothing to do with imperialism. Cook Islands depends on NZ for tertiary healthcare, tertiary education (and even secondary for many people) and much of civil service infrastructure. Going independent would be a huge loss of QoL, so there's little serious stomach for it on the island.

[@Ice_elite]

@@davidcampbell3642 The government will let them decide once they dont need our support

[@kentaylor2416]

@@davidcampbell3642 They've already decided. The vast majority of Cook islanders want to stay with NZ.

[@JM19649]

Re what counts visiting a country, I had a beer in liechtenstein.and left.. That counts.. Zimbabwe.. I was on a tour of the Zambezi out of Zambia and we stopped for lunch on a random island that the tour guide said was in Zimbabwe- I'm claiming that I had a 5 minute stop on the Slovakia- Hungary border to take a photo looking back into Hungary.. probably doesn't count Copenhagen airport... Definitely doesn't count

[@tastydeaths]

love the variety of outfits can never guess if its going to be a christmas t shirt in june or a suit

[@qinzayee]

I like the idea that he just fully dresses up in a suit to record a video

[@kardona_3]

@@qinzayee I feel like he cares about his second channel

[@WinterWind]

Actually seems really reasonable to most surveyed. You can't have it both ways. You're independent and have to deal with the governing and responsibilities to citizens that come with that, or you're as things are now and get all the economic benefits of NZ association. Free healthcare and superannuation is enormous

[@korakys]

New Zealanders used to have British passports, within living memory, "British" on the top "New Zealand" underneath.

[@jkhgfhcgdszxcytvbunm]

my grandfather use to call himself "british kiwi" and hated that we got ditched for desert war nation.

[@TheTylerTT]

@@jkhgfhcgdszxcytvbunmIf NZ/Commonwealth was ditched for anything it was the EEC/EU

[@rustyshackleford234]

Ya know, vassals of infinitely more powerful countries have been very ballsy recently. Imagine trying to break away from the nation you literally rely on and is kind enough to give you independence in the first place. Be more like Micronesia, which is an American vassal but is trying to move closer to us by giving its citizens American citizenship.

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

Ahh Micronesia.. the country America stole after WW2 from territory Japan stole from Germany after WW1 .. which the Germans strong armed from the Spanish... Which vaguely occupied it..

[@rustyshackleford234]

@ at first when I was reading this I thought you were some crazed Japanese nationalist and was about to reply the same exact thing 😂

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

@@rustyshackleford234 hehehe yeah America sly stealing Micronesia and then giving Japan the bonan islands as a reward was pretty peak clown America

[@jkhgfhcgdszxcytvbunm]

theyve made deals with china. small nations got little nation syndrome.

[@BlergWedge04]

9:00 Hawaii is an integral part of the United States to where it is its own state and the flag used was made when Hawaii was its own kingdom and thought the flag of the United Kingdom looked cool.

[@bernardliddington2633]

Remember that it became a state of the USA after holding their queen in captivity until she gave up.

[@jkhgfhcgdszxcytvbunm]

it was couped lol they loved the brits. you bastards stole the land from them and now look how they are treated fire for the poor but not the elite americans.

[@britishbanananugget3723]

Was so ready for ToyCat at 15:35 to say “Remember, if you want your own passport, you have to ask New Zealand first.”

[@bark9396]

3:07 I am amazed he mentioned Saskatchewan seceding but not Quebec

[@rogink]

Too obvious. He didn't mention Scotland either.

[@rustyshackleford234]

I mean it’s more likely nowadays since Canada is completely backwards politically and the Quebec independence movement is essentially dead

[@chaoticsequencer]

I'm almost certain Denmark cannot sell Greenland without Greenland's permission. I'm less confident Denmark can stop Greenland from selling itself if it decided to. Paying off Greenland would be astronomically expensive given they (presumably) get free public healthcare and education from Denmark currently.

[@kaushikrj5909]

Are the cook islands cooked?

[@PaulG.x]

Only on hot days

[@thebeast9440]

Come so we can cook you buddy

[@residentspirit6023]

If you have taken a form of local transit outside of the airport and eaten from a local restaurant, I'd say that counts as having visited the country

[@landonharris1223]

Was waiting for you to reference independence in Canada and say Quebec. SASKATCHEWAN???

[@12Rosen]

what if instead of cook islands it was called freak islands and

[@novactic-s9k]

Actually, people of Åland speak mostly Swedish. And if not, Finnish.

[@alterbr33d]

4:44 Greenland's population is 9.6x greater than the population of the county I grew up in, Gilpin County.

[@component9008]

Greenland is not for sale. The US would have to induce Denmark to give it over, as Denmark already sends billions there a year. You might want to research this more if you want to get a good understanding. It would be a bit embarrassing for the government if it seceded, which is what has kept it theirs for so long.

[@MrJoysiq]

cook islanders ca intern live and work in Australia under he new zeland passport. seems like they have a pretty sweet deal.

[@rogink]

Picture of Hawaii: It's actually the exact opposite of Iceland... Premium content. don't care!

[@MarkDDG]

8:13 5,989,487 people in Denmark as of 24 December 2024. Not 10 million rounded up.

[@l.u.c.a.s.]

Depends on how much you round up. Would be 10 if you round to the nearest 10 million.

[@andrewewels3054]

It is strange went you visit Cook Islands from NZ , they don't allow you to drive on a NZ drive licence, and you have to apply for a Cook islands licence! But atlas the 1948 international driver treaty allow you to drive on a overseas licence as a visitor for 3 months !

[@koongubby]

so much stuff said here is misleading or flat out wrong. the cook islands, along with niue (but not tokelau) are independent countries that exist in free association with new zealand. other countries that operate under this free association system are the marshall islands, micronesia, and palau, who are in free association with the united states. the cook islands have their own prime minister and laws, in fact new zealand cannot pass any legislation in the cook islands at all. they are not members of the un, as they ask new zealand to handle most (but not all) of their foreign affairs and defence. new zealand also can't handle either of these without expressed consent from the cook islands first. while they are not a member of the un, the un does recognise that they are states with treaty making capacity. they are also members of the WHO, UNESCO, ICAO, IMO, and the assembly of states of the international criminal court. other countries have recognised the sovereignty of the cook islands, such as america and france. both of these countries have signed treaties with the cook islands in an attempt to resolve border disputes. the united states even have permanent diplomatic relations with the cook islands. to say that the cook islands aren't independent, or real countries at all is just wrong. they are not comparable to autonomous regions like greenland or new caledonia. a bit more research into the topic might have been useful. not to get too sidetracked, but winston peters, who is the new zealand politician who said this, is a highly controversial figure here in nz. he is the party leader of a minor politcal party, and he has only managed to claw his way into government through a coalition with the national party and act party. he did the same thing with the last government, coalitioning with the labour government. he will basically do whatever he can to get an inch of power. he is also extremely homophobic, and racist to asians and middle easterners, and against the idea of free trade. he is often uninformed, and his own political party bases its policies on the wishes of people who "donate" to the party.

[@foobarf8766]

And no mention of the weird crypto currency bill there or the passport hustle, whole thing is shady af and guy didn't even name the main island Rarotonga

[@julesc296]

Without even digging deeper - this a question of independence... Turn the tap of NZ funds in support off n try survive as independent island nations as you'd already expect was the case... Or don't complain bout not having ur own passport... Simple question, complex answer..

[@julesc296]

Are they self sustaining or require a fundamental alliance w New Zealand for general support/emergencies.. I agree if can't look after yourself at a basic level..

[@TheWay604]

One correction, Cook Islands (and Niue) are not part of NZ. They are just part of the realm which is not a federation but just a group of territories and three sovereign countries (NZ, Cook Islands, and Niue). Cook Islands is already completely independent in the geopolitical sense. What NZ means is that they will take away their free association status (Free association is not a status limited to them. Other fully recognized countries have it too).

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

No cook islands has only freedom on currency and some other international political organisations. It doesn't have embassies and its citizens are new Zealand citizens

[@laurencefraser]

Properly speaking, the Realm is all the stuff that goes with the title "King of New Zealand". Basically, in terms of who becomes head of state when the current one dies/abdicates, they're a package deal. That's not the same as a personal union, mind you, which is technically the relationship between NZ, Australia, Canada, and the UK (and others) in terms of having the same head of state), as that requires that they be part of Seperate titles that happen to be associated with the same human being (and can be inhereted by different people if the laws about such things are mismatched, though in the case of those Commonwealth nations who are also monarchies in personal union, a fair bit of effort is put into making sure the laws match because it's just So Much Less Messy that way.) The wikipedia page for 'Realm of New Zealand' makes for interesting reading. There's a lot of weird little quirks to how it all interacts.

[@estraume]

I live in Iceland, and I want to have three options in the referendum: Stay independent, Join EU, or Join USA. Greenland could have the same referendum since the country is not a member of EU even though they are Danish citizens. (I don´t expect USA to win any of these potential referendums.)

[@rustyshackleford234]

I mean as an American it would be cool to have it join, but the current Republican trifecta government probably wouldn’t like a new heavily progressive state in the union.

[@laurencefraser]

Yeeeah... you don't want three options on the referendum. You want one referendum asking 'if iceland joined a larger entity, would you prefer that it join the EU or the USA?' And, after that question has been resolved and the result announced, you want a second referendum asking if people would rather join the entity that won the first one, or stay independent. Any other method will produce decidedly undesirable results, not just in terms of the decision made, but also public reaction to it. (for an example of things being done this way, see the whole thing with New Zealand's flag a while back.)

[@ChristopherWentling]

15,000 people in the middle of nowhere pacific. They should be begging New Zealand to stay.

[@Dan1elAndrade]

No

[@Orincaby]

@@Dan1elAndradeChristopher Wants A Debate But Dan1elAndrade Says No

[@rustyshackleford234]

Niue with like 2,000 people 😂

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

I'd send the 100k in new Zealand back and make em free😊🎉

[@riptyurass302]

NZ spends millions on the Cook Islands for a really tiny benefit. A lot of the them also use the trans Tasman agreement to live in Australia, and strain the relationship with NZ by committing crimes and get deported.

[@Nooticus]

Another excellent video! The long-discussed Moldovan lodger was actually a TRANSNISTRIAN LODGER?! wow

[@HazmanFTW]

As a Kiwi, I didn't realise that the Cook Islands didn't have their own passport. I think they should, it's basically its own country anyway. Flying from NZ to the Cook Islands you need your passport to fly there.

[@Ice_Karma]

Hmm. Regarding Iceland considering keeping the króna, I thought that the EU had decreed that all future member states will be required to join the Eurozone?

[@TheTylerTT]

It’s technically a requirement, but not an enforced one. The treaties don’t require you to set a timeline or anything like that. That’s why Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden still continue to use their own currencies

[@bradbradson4543]

Denmark would not sell Greenland. The caps are melting and the oil will flow and shipping channels will open.

[@victorwong7922]

This is so Atlantic centric. Lots of more examples on the other side of the globe you don't even think to mention or to move the map to Asia. 😂 Based

[@garygreen2146]

Winston Peters "Only fully independent countries can have their own passport" . Along comes Taiwan , an autonomous breakaway region of China that claims ownership of mainland China . Winston Peters "It's not the same , there is only one China"

[@FireEverLiving]

I think that a "big beautiful deal" *could* be done on Greenland. Give each Greenlander a one-time payment, agree to make it a full state rather than a territory, and make big NATO-related concessions to Denmark and the EU (e.g. allowing their defense spending to be only 1% for the next 30 years). Greenlanders and the US would get huge economic benefits from the union, the US would get a strategically-important piece of territory, and Europe would get to go back to ignoring defense. The internal US politics could also be made to work, since it objectively *would* be beneficial to the US, and Greenland would most likely be a blue state, so Democrats could support it. But it'd be a huge project, on the scale of Obamacare. I really doubt Trump has the focus to get it done.

[@gregorbenediktmanfredliedt2034]

Greenlanders can choose between a Greenland or a Danish Passport. To travel the Danish one is way more better

[@giovanni_vaz_cardoso]

In my ideal world map I joined the Cook Islands with Tokelau, Niue, French Polynesia, the Pitcairn Islands, the Phoenix and Line Islands from Kirabati and Palmyra Atoll and Howland and Baker Islands from the US to form Polynesia.

[@alterbr33d]

8:10 If it was in Denmark's discretion to sell Greenland, no they would not sell for $1,000 for each Danish citizen. Humans not for sale runs deeper than you might think in Nordic countries. People who are taken care of cannot be bought. Also, even if the subject is not sexual, it still stims from certain sexual ideas.

[@Ice_Karma]

I'm sure you don't care because second channel, but "Niue" is pronounced like "NEW, eh" (with "new" pronounced like "nyoo", not "noo"). ♥

[@IlluminatiBG]

Passports are just pieces of paper. They are only powerful, after your country signs a bilateral agreement with another country, or you can delegate your passport trust and enforcement to a parent authority (like Greenland -> Denmark -> EU). If Greenland citizen does something in USA, it is likely USA contact first EU or Denmark directly, than the local Greenland's authorities, thus Greenland's citizens likely to be able to visit to USA. If your country is new, and have no bilateral agreements, any passport you have is indistinguishable from random piece of paper.

[@l.u.c.a.s.]

USA would definitely contact Danish authorities, not EU. EU only handles much higher level stuff such as trade agreements. EU would only get it involved on request from Denmark, otherwise, it would be encroaching on Danish matters. Also, Greenland itself is not part of the EU. I know, weird.

[@The_Grand_Egg]

live in new zealand, and i've never heard of this.

[@RM-ti8nf]

There's an article on Stuff- its pretty current

[@ALaughingMan]

My wife is Cook Islander-Tahitian. She explains it this way: Cook Islanders are New Zealanders, but New Zealanders are not Cook Islanders-a one-way relationship, which makes sense given the circumstances. The Cook Islands are small, too small to function independently, but its people are fiercely proud, with each island maintaining its own language, culture, and heritage. My mother-in-law is from the atoll of Penrhyn, the northernmost part of the Cook Islands. It is geographically distant from the main Cook Islands and much closer to Tahiti. The language spoken on Penrhyn is unique but endangered, with fewer than 900 fluent speakers remaining and a population of under 600 on the atoll. Interestingly, Penrhyn speakers can understand most other Pacific languages, but their language is not easily understood by others. Without intervention, it is at risk of extinction within the next few generations.

[@migsbro]

It may be good if they had a NZ passport with a cook islands sub tittle so its the same but does rep the islands, going independent would turn the place to mummy dust.

[@LuxuriantCarrot]

The realm joke took me a couple of rewinds 😂

[@explorernate]

Had you just got back from an interview or a wedding or something before you filmed this, toycat? Why so formal for the Cook Islands

[@enderofruina2973]

It's the same reason Wales and Scotland are still in the UK. Cause of the benefits, I'm sure they hate it but I'm not speaking from experience

[@RedSkyrkw]

They are literally nz, entirely reliant on New Zealand... Them getting their own passport would absolutely just ruin their travel abilities it doesn't make any sense to do so

[@Dreamprism]

It would be rude for the UK to ask for part of Ireland.

[@humanperson6675]

“Oh yeah some of the people there call it that” dang even the people there don’t recognize it 💀💀

[@Njrocks00]

I hope the Cook Islands joins the US in our Compact of Free Association

[@andrewjohnwilliams6951]

I don't cause then therd be too many American. Bases +New Zealand has looked after cook islands for nearly 109 yrs so it should n stay with New Zealand n own it

[@piratewhoisquiet]

"If the south island wanted to secede" let me assure you my friend, I am born and raised at the top of the south and it's not "if;" we DO want to secede. Movements for the south island's independence have existed for a very long time, and have had a resurgence in the last decade. NZ government is a farce, as is the judiciary, as is law enforcement. A stable, responsible and effective nation must be upheld, and the north island has consistently demonstrated their incapability of doing so.

[@gotham61]

You have not visited a country until you have gone through passport control.

[@peterkotara]

Vatican City?

[@DavidSolimano]

US gonna add Greenland to the Territory of Snow Mexico for real.

[@LeonardCraigKendricknz]

Ill simplify this , us Nzers basically fund the Cook Islands like everything from healthcare to infrastructure basically they are in no way Independent their like our step child.

[@vannplaysgamespoorly1772]

Omitting the fact that the Cook Islands is in free association with NZ is pretty huge hole in this, especially when trying to draw parallels to the European political situation. There's nothing really like it, because the Cook Islands are not a devolution of the NZ government, but a separate nation that chooses to be a part of the realm of NZ. It's a unique situation where all Cook Islanders (And other states in free association) are automatically NZ citizens and entitled to the same benefits. In fact around 84% of all Cook Islanders live in NZ, with over 80% Cook Islanders who live in NZ also being born here. The Cook Islands government wants to have have their cake and eat it too by choosing to remain in association with NZ, but they also want to pursue independent policy without actually declaring independence. If they want independence, then they can freely leave the association, they'd just lose all the aid and economic benefits of being in the realm of NZ.

[@ryandoesstuffapparently1540]

Surely a country without a McDonalds has their own McDonald’s analog?

[@Entertainment-]

They want that sweet Golden Visa / citizenship by investment money.

[@twichyi3ones312]

So you say.

[@jessedaniel6330]

the town i grew up in is 22 times smaller then Greenland's population lol

[@radio_marco]

No, you can't eat my passport, well I have non, as in I'm a citizen of Switzerland (and only Switzerland) but since I never was outside of the Schengen area, I never needed to make a passport.

[@MexicanGan-Q]

Indeer, Winnie P certainly is an 'interesting' NZ politician 😂

[@realhawaii5o]

It's so easy... Just have a New Zealand passport with Cook Islands subtitle 🙃

[@Juttutin]

I came here to basically comment this. Just a different cover with "New Zealand and Cook Islands Passport" and a tiara maori lei down the side instead of the silver fern would be cool. Available to everyone who is currently entitled to the Cook Islands Endorsement (has Cook Island descent from a grandparent I think) which is a process that already exists. NB: I'm not Cook Island Māori, but I kinda get the desire to have your national identity recognised in the most formal of government documents with more than a stamp somewhere on an inside page.

[@riptyurass302]

The Cook Islands wants to do this so they can keep all the entitlements of NZ citizenship while also making sure NZ citizens get no rights if they want to live in the Cook Islands… NZ is better off just making them independent.

[@sovietmaori]

mum look im on tv

[@jjsyphor8288]

Niue is pronounced noo (noo like noodles) and wheyy like the protein shake but a softer. Noo-wheyy.

[@giovanni_vaz_cardoso]

I'm portuguese, scared of flying and boats, and I would love to visit Greece, so you just described me lol 11:10

[@NotThatGarden]

Old sub McMahon here, Niue is pronounced "Neeyouway"

[@jh5401]

as a new zealander, this is stupid. i think they should be able to have both passports.

[@jossaha]

Niue - Nu-ay

[@adamvagenknecht]

How do you do the countries you visited map on jetpunk?

[@Ape-El]

What goes on in Cook Islands stay in Cook Islands

[@LUNE.44]

13:11 BIG SALMON ?????

[@JmKrokY]

🗿

[@unOrigiNik]

Nieu is promounced "new-ay"

[@itzrayyo]

No McDonalds mr. cat! Boycott for humanity

[@supremebeme]

interesting video. are you stimming or like just had a lot of coffee

[@interrupted_reverie]

Lmao arent we at a point where a single can a buy a whole territory

[@gregnz1]

America annexed part of Samoa. Look up Niue NZ TAX deals.

[@AndyZach]

Denmark's population is just under 6 million. So 60 billion should buy Greenland. About 1/20 of the value of Tesla.

[@cadifan]

Niue is not pronounced "New", it is pronounced "Nu-eh"! Some people pronounce it with a "w" sound "Nu-way" but that's wrong too.

[@rrawl]

I guess you could say, Cook Island is Cooked 😏😏

[@warujr]

I'm torn cuz I'm New Zealander and Cook Islander

[@saudisinaudis]

Have a coffee in a local place

[@qwaqy2605]

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[@SwOoPy287]

im a CI/NZ born and no we already had(some still have) our own passport, when expired you get the NZ passport... NO kuki agrees with the doughnut PM Brown.. So we Kuki"s said no, not the NZ country.. Come correct mate or be corrected... Get off the nimbis cloud and give someone else a turn btw.

[@3drocket]

They want cake and to eat it too.

[@dcseain]

People in Greenland can choose between a Greenland Passport or a Danish Passport. Danish is stronger.

[@tayley284]

I live in Raro, and not a single person ive talked to wants our own passport haha. it's not a "we want our own passport" thing haha its just a small part of the local government that wants it, but the rest of us have basically little say in the matter. Overall, majority of the Kukis here dont want that shit to happen hahaha😂😅

[@TD_Bear]

as a new zealander our current government is not the best when it comes to making good decisions at the moment so yea :/

[@uggali]

Niue is pronounced more like new-eh in English

[@egfloggygoggy]

British overseas territories conflicts how lovely

[@Swan_River_Cowboy]

Well no haven’t been for a while now

[@kushgoblin51020]

Just a heads up, Niue is pronounced new-way

[@ninny65]

They are cooked