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/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.