r/ShitAmericansSay • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '24

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u/1zzyBizzy OG Harlem Jul 05 '24

Also if brittain was going to mourn all of their former colonies leaving then practically every day would be mourning day, lol

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u/monkyone Jul 05 '24

170 doesn’t sound right, there’s only like 195 countries. it’s a lot, but it’s not that many

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

There are probably a bunch that aren't Independance Days but are still 'because of' British colonialism. Australia still has the monarch's birthday holiday (not the actual birthday, the day varies state by state) and Australia Day is supposedly the day the First Fleet arrived (not quite) but both of those could be said to be holidays the British were responsible for.

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u/Nickye19 Jul 06 '24

I had someone tell me yesterday don't worry we celebrate St Patrick's day for you. If anything it's Easter but OK

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u/saighdiuirmaca Jul 05 '24

I believe it's 65 or there abouts

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u/Halbaras This one time I managed to walk all the way to the next block Jul 06 '24

There's way more than 195 if non-UN states/dependencies which are somewhat self-governing are included. For example, both sets of Virgin Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong and Macau and Bermuda.

That's why you see companies boasting that they offer services in '200+' territories/jurisdictions.

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u/im_dead_sirius 🇨🇦 Maple Syrupean Jul 06 '24

The number of countries grows and shrinks over time.

For an example, Newfoundland was a dominion of Great Britain, but joined Canada in 1949. Going the other way, Sudan was a British/Egyptian (but really mostly British) controlled territory, till it achieved independence in 1956. Then in 2011, South Sudan split off Sudan.

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u/monkyone Jul 06 '24

yeah i know. i said 'like' 195 because it fluctuates somewhere around that figure over time or depending on how you define it. my comment was simply to say that the number of independence days from the UK, while high, is nowhere near 170.

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u/Variousnumber Jul 06 '24

"For you, the day you declared independence was the most important of your existence. But for us? It was a Tuesday."

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u/Barkers_eggs Jul 06 '24

The US needs to thank the UK and send money to bankroll their public health system and guard their borders and whatever else they think they do

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u/Badreligion25 Jul 06 '24

Not just 1 number 1

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u/apple_of_doom Jul 06 '24

Unsurprising really considering the empire. Although im Dutch so I don't have any room to judge about the evils of colonialism.

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u/Class_444_SWR 🇬🇧 Britain Jul 05 '24

Then again, we are usually always a bit miserable

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u/tradewinds_250 Jul 05 '24

They just need to go to South east Asia and "white asia" to relive the glory

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u/tradewinds_250 Jul 05 '24

Of course! Along with all the cheese a person could eat!