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Neil Abercrombie: “Is it not then the case, would you agree, that if it was, in fact, safe and it could be done in France or it could be…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 1996
Is it not then the case, would you agree, that if it was, in fact, safe and it could be done in France or it could be done in the seas in the waters surrounding France, and it has not been done and has been done in the South Pacific, that this is an indication of the continued colonial atmosphere, an example of the colonial mentality that the French still maintain toward the Polynesian people, most specifically those who live in the South Pacific?
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Neil Abercrombie
Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Addressing colonial attitudes in French policy towards the Polynesian people.

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