"Relatively few people were actually executed during the Inquisition" Thanks for getting it right. The Spanish Inquisition is largely blown out of proportion for political reasons with some people claiming that it was like the Spanish version of the Holocaust, even though only around 5,000 people were executed over a 400 year time span.
We can thank the protestant propaganda for that, mostly English and Dutch. Although the most important factor for many of current stereotypes of Medieval Catholic Europe stem from the Enlightment era. People were beginning to doubt in God so they wanted to show medieval period as a backward and highly religious one (although Inquisition happened AFTER the medieval period, most people think of Medieval Times when talking about the Inquisition).
@Joaquin Pampliega richest in rescorces? If the luso world united, we would have brazil(most nature diverse country with most recsorces in south america, we would have portugal, (cork, cork, cork and cork) we would have angola, mozambique, guinea bissau and cabo verde. (Are all in the continent of africa which has the most rescorces on earth.) We would also have macau (which would open up trade with china). We would rule the atlantic and indian ocean once again, and maybe even give panama back to scotland 😉
It would be fascinating to see a united Spanish Caribbean islands with Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Cuba since we are culturally similar to one another.
I've been to spain and this is a lie. At least Mexico wise, they are very similar especially the bad habits lol Spain is hardly a developed countr and that is just thanks to mommy merkel bailing you out all the time haha
@@omega0195 lmao what? The other guy's argument makes no sense and he is exagerating, because that's not true, perhaps 60% native and 40% spanish in the most "indian" countries like Peru, but in no way 10% spanish
@@ivanmartinez-jd8gi spanish safe cultured 🤭🤭 the entire european community would beg to disagree lol but yes keep telling yourself that and also it is well known fact that europe starts in the pyrenees 😂😂
Well, Brazil has had many separatist wars in history. What mantained Brazil together as one big country was the fact that the Portuguese royal family moved to Rio in 1808 and could control the colony better and defeat the separatists. If it weren't for the royal family's presence in Brazil, the country would have definitely separated in smaller countries like the spanish colonies.
I don't doubt it. But Brazil wouldn't be one country if it weren't for the royal family. There were many separatist wars in many different places of Brazil. Maybe the british were behind those brazilian separatists too. Who knows?
I think Panama city should be the capital of this hypothetical single Hispanic American country. It's rather centrally located, between the hispanic countries of North America and South America. It's also located between the Carribean/Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It's on a major shipping line. Also, it prevents any major megapolis city from being too dominant.
Nope Bolivar never wanted evething into a single country since it was too unfeasible but he did aspire to unify the Viceroyalties of Peru, New Granada and La Plata as they were all part of the Viceroyalty of Peru in the past. Politically New Spain was too unstable to integrate and due to this as well as distance even if Spain never lost it New Spain was not a danger to the new nation he sought to create.
People may immediately think the idea of unity is ridiculous, however there are already two unions in South America, which are customs unions and tradings blocs, called Mercosur and the Andean Community - which are currently in the process of integration into the larger union of UNASUR. You can see "Mercosur" on the passports of anyone from Brazil, Argentina etc. It's a bit like the EU but less integrated.
i feel like there definitely should be a trading bloc consisting of Hispanic culture countries/former Spanish colonies, which would include Philippines and Equatorial Guinea. A new Galleon Trade would be prosperous for Philippines, Mexico, all of Central America, and even some South American countries if they decide to join in
Hay una razón por la que los monarcas de Aragón y Castilla eligieron el Yugo y Las Flechas como el "símbolo de las virtudes heroicas de la raza". El haz de flechas aludía a la clásica historia moral que advierte de que las flechas pueden ser fácilmente rompibles por separado, pero todas juntas, son irrompibles.
I remember growing up in venezeula watching "Mexican"Mtv because Viacom was to lazy to produce a channel for each country so they just produced one in Mexico and distributed to the rest of latin american countries
Ferdinand II you think I don't know that? I'm as white as they come even though my parents are from Cuba and Venezuela. Hispanic is a cultural/linguistic term, just like Anglo.
Some of the factors preventing this would be the cartels/criminal organizations and the corrupted leaders that wouldn't want to possibly give up their power.
The Hispanics have the same Language, demographic, culture and history and yet they are scattered. But when you look at Europe, they have different languages, history, culture, religion and demographics and they're were even killing each other 70+ years ago but today they're unified under one parlament, one currency and one passport.
hitler hated the other races of europe aswell. mediterreans (south europeans, dark hair, dark eyes, tan skin/oliven) slavic ppl(east europeans), celtic ppl(british) and the germans were germanic along with north europe. I guess u guys would call us ``white white``
@@dttkku3954 I don't think Hitler even liked "Aryans". Germans are mixed and the most purist under his empire, Norwegians, were sent to the hardest battles intentionally and it's population abused.
400 years of being colonies, that is a lot of time, and the huge spanish territory was integrating it self year by year...the spanish empire have always been the most tolerant, and just like the romans did, all the diferent people would have eventually become one if Napoleon have not mess with the spanish king we may have a *very* diferent world today... A super power like that could have changed the world like any other
"the spanish empire have always been the most tolerant" How do you go writing this nonsense disregarding the racial and location caste system made legal? It is known that if you were not Spanish (Yes, you could be Mestizo and not considered Spanish) and not born on that peninsula, you would hold less privileges. I know you hispanophiles like to bring up how the british killed the indigenous population but that's not to say the Spanish were tolerant just because they didn't resort to the "same" practices done by the English. I also find it funny that you hispanophiles believe the British were savages. You could say you made up a british black legend because if I remember correctly, the british weren't going around trying the colonize the whole continent as they wouldn't go beyond the Appalachian mountains. The british government had deals with local tribes beyond those mountains not to try colonizing them. In fact, the british were trying to set up an indigenous kingdom but failed because the tribes were too tribalistic.
@@benjaminbyrnison4882 Caribbean natives were mixed which is why Puerto Rico is a third native american today. What percentage of native american is the average guy from massachussets today?
@@heraclesisidoro7874 British exterminated: North america indians, and Australia and NewZeland natives. It is a probed fact. I am sure they tried in India but didnt suceed. In north America, they not only exterminated natives, but monopoliced the Slave Business with Portugal to enslave africans. So go lying some other place in RU-vid were people is not informed.
You didn't make a flag for this one :( As an Argentine, I think this would be awesome but yeah, it's not gonna happen. There is so much rivalry between Latin American countries, it's so dumb. Your videos are great btw. Keep em up. It'd be super cool if you would make one about the linguistic history and situation in Paraguay, it is truly fascinating. Also on how gender was affected by the Paraguayan war against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, so that for a long time there were far more women than men, and stuff like that.
Amerindians did not support the revolutionary cause almost anywhere in the Americas, as they had really good autonomy and special deals with the Spanish crown. Your video is also misguided in the sense that it was not nationalism that brought the criollos and mestizos against the Spanish, but local criollo elites were upset over the mainland's mercantilist practices. The criollo elites wanted to trade with Britain and the Dutch, but Spain would not allow them to do so. The Napoleonic invasion was not the trigger for independence per se, as these elites formed councils to preserve the empire and protect themselves from potential invasion. The actual trigger for independence was British support. Unquestionably so. Look up the amount of debt Gran Colombia was left with once independence was won, and notice who it was owed to. All independentists were freemasons as well, so this was very much the job of an international cabal that, at the time, wanted to do away with absolute monarchies and enforce secular and liberal constitutionalism to facilitate fattening their pockets.
It's the same cabal that's been responsible for the fall of many great empires throughout history. Their current target is the USA. Unless the world unites against these Luciferian globalists, they'll keep toppling civilizations until everyone is their slave.
You must be joking right? In my country at least (don't know about south america), Hidalgo's army was said to have been made up of mostly Amerindian and Mestizo men, a peasantry army. Yes, our founders were freemasons and yes we received help from the british. Why do you hispanophiles likened them to some great evil? Secularism is our future, better than some perverted Catholic clergy taking money for salvation. I'm glad the british helped us, now sleep on that hispanophile bastards.
@@heraclesisidoro7874 Hidalgo was a catholic priest that fought to defend the Spanish crown from Napoleon's brother. Mexico conservatives allied with the insurgents to seperate from Spain when it when full masonic libtard adopting the constitution of 1820.
+Gabriel Fagundes Pois é... Mas não Participou! E não falta só Angola, Falta Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Guiné Bissau, Goa, Macau, Timor Leste e São Tomé e Principe.
Reino Unido de Portugal Brasil e Algarves...é importante não alterar a ordem. Angola era parte integrante de Portugal, por isso já fazia parte do projecto.
Congratulations on a well done video. As a Dominican and Hispanic if we all decide to join as one country as you suggested, I think the rest of the world would try to migrate to our country and Spanish would replace English as the dominant language.
We shouldn't United with any country. We already have the fastest growing economy in the hemisphere. Let them do their experiments while we keep doing our thing
I just N U T ......love the video man. The main focus for this hypothetical country is to focus on its domestic issues and if it can avoid much corruption, focus on its infrastructure. If this were done, then there is no doubt that Hispanic America would become a world power.
Angola, Brasil, Green Cape, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tomé and Príncipe, Timor Leste Mozambique the chinesse of Macau and the Indian enclaves of Goa, Damián and Diu.
This is my dream but unfortunately this might never happen. Spanish countries are way too individualistic and unorganized. Plus they are way too proud, I can't imagine Argentina or Chile willing to unify with Mexico , Colombia or Peru for instance. The unification of Chile and Argentina is already an imposible reality
@@Bicicletasaladas a federation of Hispanics, for no corruption, no dictators, no more suffering in the poor, even if Chile and Argentina don’t like each other, then they can deal with their differences and realize we are all as one and we will be Gran Hispania!!!
Yeah I don’t think that Hispanic unification would work, Chile helped the British during the Falkland war (which was a war between Argentina and Britain), Ecuador lost land to Peru in 1941, Uruguay is a buffer state between Argentina and Brazil. Uruguay and Argentina are nationalist in the since they care about their own country and not really worldwide politics, Bolivia lost its access the ocean to Chile, Venezuela is poor, Colombia and Panama have so not so great history, etc. It a great idea that I love, but sadly I don’t see happening unless a large event that called upon the unification of Latin America nations.
The Hispanic countries have more in common than the anglo countries. While the south and central american are a blend of Spanish and native races and cultures. The anglo countries have an important heritage from Nordic And East European countries, which don’t have any relation with British heritage.
Except most immigrants have integrated into Anglo society, and while that heritage isn't ignored, it's vastly overshadowed by their current nation. Most speak the same language and work together. Also unlike the Spanish speaking world, Anglo countries are all united in one form or another, whether it be through NATO, the British commonwealth, or some other form of alliance.
I love 11:15. "Except for Paraguay, that's a whole different story". I've never heard a more accurate description of a country haha. Rohayhu che Paraguay!!
Bolivar, Sucre, Morelos and San Martin had some discussions to join all the Spanish colonies in America. The name was Colombia, since that is what everybody felt that was the correct name for this continent. The issue was lack of communications. Even central america split from Mexico creating El Salvador, and in a few years split into all the small countries. Chiapas separated from Guatemala, lasted less than a year as independent, and then joined Mexico. Yucatan and other states attempted to separate from Mexico, but were forced into remaining...similar to the civil war in the U.S. I doubt all of latin America will unite, but perhaps there will be more trade, less import taxes, and possibly a unified currency.
awesooomeee. "Patria grande" for the win!!! Patria grande is the term used by us, the people who wish to make this video true, or at least try to drive towards unification.
Latinos! Hagamos esto una realidad!!! The name should be something that tells our identity but also has a good tone to it, I'd say: Nueva Castilla As for the capital, it depends, what qualities should the capital have? Should the capital be the biggest city? Then it should be Mexico City Should the capital be the closest to the middle as possible? Then it should be Bogota Should the capital be a historical colonial city? Then it should be Santo Domingo (First European settlement in the Americas) Should the capital be a historical Amerindian city? Then it should be either Mexico City (former Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire) or Cusco (Same name, the former capital of the Incan Empire)
Yo digo que la capital debe ser colombia porque esta en el centro, muchas personas creen que ser la capital significa que seran mas ricos, pero eso no tiene nada que ver la capital es ser el centro del govierno, no de todo el dinero solo mira en Estados Unidos la capital es washigton d.c., pero nueva york, califonia, florida y un sin numero de estados son pero mucho mas ricos.
What I like most about this video is the rather clear delineation of what to include and what not to in the supposed Hispanic super-country. Because with the other video, the one on the super Anglo country, the word "Anglo world" or something like that was too wide encompassing but the theoretical country only included US, Canada, Australia, NZ, and Ireland. Many other English-speaking countries and former British colonies were excluded without proper reason why so. At least in this video the scope and limitations of the Hispanic super-country is rather better defined. Good job!
0:47 "...why are hispanic countries so fractured.." I wrote an answer for a similar question on another website. Here is a link if you're interested. It's very succinct, probably no more than 2-3 minutes of reading and has links to back up my answer. It also specifically addresses why Brazil remained united. history.stackexchange.com/questions/11027/how-were-the-modern-countries-in-south-america-formed/ As for Canada, I would imagine the answer would be similar to the one for Brazil. There was a strong centralizing force (the monarchy) which allowed for it to develop around a unified identity whereas in Latin America there was a vacuum of power that lead to the push for independence. For the United States, I think it deals with the fact it was much smaller at independence than the Spanish colonies were and they were united in a war against British forces. In the Spanish wars for independence it was much messier, Spain was occupied by France from 1808-1814 and racked with civil strife, including military mutinies and a French intervention, until 1823 due to conflict between liberals and absolutists. Once order was restored, the only area where royalists had any sway was southern Peru and parts of Bolivia. So the Independence wars were closer to a civil war where both sides were mostly composed of colonists, though some regions were more strongly royalist or patriot due to rivalries that long existed. Additionally, the U.S. loyalists ended up emigrating to other British possessions whereas the Latin American royalists mostly defected and later integrated into their new nations thereby maintaining regional rivalries. You go over the reasons for disunity at about 4:32, but I thought this post would help fill in the detail a little without being too long. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalist_(Spanish_American_independence) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_wars_of_independence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain_(1810%E2%80%9373)
too much different races in them and also too much mixed, that ignites a great differences between all of them. is not like Germany or japan where all the people or almost all are whites or asiatics, in latin America, all is lose, you really don't know what is what, and everybody is confused or force to follow things they don't feel or like, something like in the babel tower! jejejejejje.
mike jensen Are you ok? Your ramblings are odd. Race had nothing to do with regional rivalries it was simply the desire for self-determination. Peru and Bolivia are very similar racially, yet Bolivia had no desire to be part of Peru because they were accustomed to essentially governing themselves during the reign of the Spanish empire. I am not sure at what point you read race into my comment since I never mentioned it.
Celtic should be pronounced Kel-tic, not Celt-ic. I know some people get this confused due to Glasgow Celtic and Boston Celtics being pronounced Celt-ic, but when referring to Celtic people it is pronounced Kel-tic. Sorry, I also left a message correcting/complaining about pronunciation on a prior video, but I am a Scotsman who is kinda anal about these things!!!
It's a bad habit. I realize it's supposed to be pronounced with the K, but I've pronounced it with the S sound my entire life. In some videos I pronounce it two different ways throughout, because my brain keeps reverting back XD
Yo soy argentino...the capital of Hispania would be Mexico City probably, but I'd create a whole new capital in a more centralized location such as in Colombia or Costa Rica or something...
@@nestor1907 Amigo, nadie excluye a España, como vas a pensar eso del país donde se origino el idioma y la cultura, la cuestión es que hispanoamerica al ser una región vasta y gigante es normal que se tenga mas referencia de la hispanidad, sobretodo considerando la fama que nos dan los inmigrantes hispanos en USA
@@nestor1907 oye corrupto bago..... nosotros los latinos no queremos nada con españa. No te repetamos. Esto sera un movimiento solo para latino americanos.
@@lavrentiyberia4110 y eso es precisamente lo que quieren, separar a España de Latinoamérica, separar a los hispanos a dos lados del Atlántico. Porque unidos damos miedo a EEUU, China y Rusia
I LOVE these videos, probably some of your best work, You are by far my favorite content creator, PLEASE make more of these although there are only so many ideas, You could do the Lusophone World, and the Francophone world, but that is pretty much all it can think of
Really cool video! I enjoyed it a lot, it's very accurate and it's a fascinating topic ^^ It's clear the geography of the region prohibited the formation of such country, in fact, I do believe the separation of the different population centres during the 300 years of spanish rule created the diversity of our people. Nevertheless, it's great to be able to identify with anyone from Mexico to Chile, because we're literally sons of the same country :D
Great video. Could you do one on a combined English-Spanish empire from the 1500's. I often tell me Spanish girlfriend that the biggest world empire would've resulted from our two nations joining together.
Well, in fact, that happened already, and it didn't end up well. I believe there's a public building in London, I might be mistaken, but i think it is the Houses of parliament where a list of the English/British kings can be seen. Among all the historic kings/queens you shall see one called "Philip I" that is the same person as the Spanish king Felipe II the one to say for the first time "the sun never sets in my reigns". He was married to Mary the one you call "bloody" and was king of England for 3 years+ During that time didn't do much, except one thing he would later regret: creating the English Navy. The English aristocrats didn't like much the idea of having a Spanish king so the experiment failed miserably.
U know how cool it would be if we actually United and became one country that would be pretty badass but if we actually want to make this happen we must think of a cool name like Hispania or gran hispania or some like that
Well, it is in fact happening. There is already a regional bloc called CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) that comprises not only the Spanish speaking countries, but also Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and most Caribbean countries (all those which are not colonies). Its evolution towards a superstate à la European Union is of course slow, but it is happening. Integration is a common goal in Latin America. It makes it easier because most countries speak Spanish and Portuguese is very similar. Of course, English and French are spoken too, but that is not seen as a hindrance. We get well along with Brazil. It is very much seen as part of the community. In spite of our differences, and there are many, we will one day become a Union of countries and will definitely be a mayor player in the world. This is not a pipe dream. We share a common history, a common culture and similar problems. We must overcome the immaturity common to young countries. It'll take the most part of this century, but we'll get there. It's nice to know that it'll happen for sure. We can be proud of that.
Yet again, for some reason, maybe racial, I don't know, Spain is excluded from a theoretical Hispanic Union but Britain for example is not... I honestly don't understand the logic going on here in most American minds, we're going to exclude Spain because... no reason, I won't say anything I can't argue in favour of it, just skip quick.
I know its late but its like he said. Its about realism. Australia, UK, US, Canada are super close culturally. Tho it would be cool to have spain on our side. The reality is culturally we dont have a lot in common other then the basic things like religion and language. Even Spaniards dont feel that connection to its previous colonies. They are more closely tied to the EU.
The only name ever proposed for the Pan-hispanic American Empire was Colombia, so it's tempting to call it "The Great Colombian Republic", but probably only us colombians would go along with that idea. It would probably be more practical to use a descriptive name, such as the name of the United States of America, something like United Panamerican Federation.
America is a country. And don’t mention our country in your comment. You’re offending us Americans. Don’t compare us Americans to your craphole countries.
Dang. Uniting all the Hispanic-American countries, with massive size and population, with virtually unlimited natural resources, would still have a smaller economy than Japan? Mind... blown! And the nation would be called Pan-America with the capital at Panama City, for its symbolic value as a crossroads of the world.
Venezuelans Be like:"HEY, WE WERE MENTIONED ON A VIDEO, LET'S COMMENT" Por favor no se me arrechen, todos sabemos que cuando alguien dice Venezuela todos estamos súper al pendiente 😂
the spanish viewed their colonies as their children, and were ashamed to see them fail in the philipines and needed more time with papa, im sure they would be ashamed of us to see that we've broken up😢
Strange it hasn't done it already, if we Indians can make a country with 200+ languages , 10+ religious groups and 23states then anyone can. Make it happen guys !
acammtt As much as I appreciate what the US has done for us.. no dude- we really need to split away from them. We need our own nation so we can take a stand against every other superpower nation in the world and gain respect. I just mean to show that we mean business and we stand united to defend each other.
Take into account, as you can see from different videos in RU-vid, that most Brazilians don´t consider Brazil a part of Latinamerica. Most Brazilians think of themselves just as "Brazilians" while "Latinamericans" are the Spanish speaking neighbors...
Nope. Hispanic America are the neighbors of Brazil, while Iberian America would be Hispanic America and Brazil, while Latin America would be Iberian America and Franco-America together. The term you're looking for is Latino/-a when use in the U.S. as that one colloquially means people from a Spanish speaking country in the Americas.
I know but I am talking just about the perception of most Brazilians about themselves. They don´t consider themselves "Latinos" and don´t think Brazil is part of "Latinamerica"...so the term LATINAMERICA (LATINOAMÉRICA in Spansih) will be applied just to an Spanish speaking union, the United States of LATINAMERICA. Easy.
+Jay More Spanish is the ugly one. Spanish is nothing but broken portuguese. If you compare the romance languages you can see that spanish is the weirdo.
Hey I like your topic & stats. Geography is a neglected topic now days & your vids help all of us get a geopolitical grasp of the world. Do a version of this vid including the Philippines & other Spanish "possessions" for fun. I think it would become another "the sun never sets on...."
It's much better and more probable if Central America, grand Columbia became country, Peru and Bolivia and the southern Cone of South America become countries And Mexico stayed Mexico
Jonathan Rios nobody wants to be part of Mexico 😂 I mean even Mexicans from Texas wanted to split from Texas allowed the angle saxons join their army and leave Mexico, nothing but facts. #facts
I can almost hear Colombia looking over at venezuela, El Salvador and Honduras and thinking "No! Please! Don't leave me alone with these IDIOTS" Colombia and Panama will have to drag them over, and Panama HATES venezuela... Combining the great Colombia with central America in 2017 would be a match made in hell. And I can only feel bad for Colombia and Panama carrying the black sheep of South America
yoban gonza you must be idiot or haven't read a book , when Texas declared Independence from Mexico , the ones who did it were Anglo immigrants who wanted to keep slavery but Mexico didn't allow them so they declared Independence.
the closest thing we have is the pacific alliance (Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile, with Panama and Costa Rica to join at some indeterminate time) the most open free market/trade economies of the region, kind of an early EU, but is a long way of. Others have very different gob/econ phylosophies very protectionist and closed like mercosur (argentina, brazil, uruguay and paraguay) and some also very autoritarian like venezuela and cuba. But maybe some day would be cool if they can all leave regional rivalries aside (the isolation from the rest of the world has favoured internal conflict and rivalries)
I am mainly worried about the fact that, just like with most pan-nationalist projects, this would result in the extremely diverse cultures and dialects all throughout Hispanic America to all turn into some sort of amorphous blob. It's especially worrying as someone from the Conosur, as we're culturally distinct from the rest of Latin America, and our dialects are considered by some not to even qualify as Spanish (Chile gets the brunt of these accusations, but at least they use normal Spanish grammar. Us Argentines and Uruguayans don't even use the regular 1st person singular pronoun for "you") I've already seen kids speak with Mexican accents due to watching kids' shows dubbed in "neutral Spanish", and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't help if we were under a government that didn't have much of an incentive to keep our identity alive.
5:26 "Except we're going to exclude Spain from this new Hispanic country as to make it more realistic along with other former Spanish colonies that are not in the Americas such as the Philippines, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea in Africa." Okay, I'mma head out now.
Can you just do what you were doing before. Alternate history hub and reallifelore already has enough of these really. I like your channel because it talks about current ethnic situations I nevery knew about
You're talking about mostly *Hispanic America,* why do people confuse the two?! Also, Simón Bolívar wanted a united American continent not just Hispanic America. However the technology wasn't there yet for such a union nor where many really interested, but I still don't think that a unified Hispanic America would work even today. But, smaller unions such as the former Colombia (Ecuador, current Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela) I think might work WAY better!
+Ollie The thing about the original union was that it wasn't a federation and was *very* centralised! I think it could work way better as a federation, but even then there are huge obstacles such as the fact that no roads exist between Panama and S. America thanks to the Darien Gap and frankly a ferry system between Panama and today's Colombia wouldn't be enough (heck one doesn't really exist even now) to maintain such a union in a physical sense. However if all parties commit to such a union, such a road could be build as a stipulation for Panama to be part of it; something similar happened when British Columbia became part of Canada, as the federal Canadian government legally needed to build a railway that would link up British Columbia to the rest of Canada. However, realistically I don't see such a union happening anytime soon. Also the "states" (or provinces or cantons or whatever they want to call the subdivisions) that would make up this union wouldn't be the same ones as the countries that actually exist. I think Colombia and Venezuela would need to become at least 7 or 8 "states" each in order for everyone to be of a similar size.
@@Masaman imagine a anglo-spanish Union with all Spanish speaking countries and all English speaking countries😶🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇿🇮🇪🇿🇦and🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇪🇸🇺🇾🇵🇷🇻🇪🇵🇪🇪🇨 and others
pokezee king-wolf Mali and Ethiopia were the ones that managed to stay relatively strong and Ethiopia is the only one who survived colonialism, aside from being occupied during the 2nd WW
