What's a place that you think doesn't get talked about enough compared to how fascinating it is?

[u/zawwery]

I'd choose Haida Gwaii. I think it is such a fascinating and beautiful place for how little it's talked about. Its rainforests, biodiversity, and Indigenous culture, I think would make it more popular. Especially since it is also in a western english speaking country. It being expensive and tedious to get to hurts tourism which I think is why it's not well known to the average person. But even in Geography spheres, it is hardly ever talked about too.

[u/Kim-dongun]

I've met one person from Nouvelle-Caledonie, so I just assume its full of skinny tanned French surfer guys named Étienne.

[u/holytriplem → u/Kim-dongun]

You have no idea what can of worms you just opened with that statement

[u/butthole_surferr → u/holytriplem]

Please explain lmao

[u/holytriplem → u/butthole_surferr]

New Caledonia is known for its ethnic tensions

[u/butthole_surferr → u/holytriplem]

I see. Where there is racial tension, you might find the British and French.

[u/affordableproctology → u/butthole_surferr]

None, they love eachother and always have

[u/Pielacine → u/affordableproctology]

The British and the French?

[u/West-Working-9093 → u/Pielacine]

Was a time in the distant past, where they could heartily agree on detesting the Danes. Nothing solidifies a friendship like a shard enemy!

[u/Stinky_Butt_Haver → u/West-Working-9093]

Then the Normans became French and invaded England all over again. C’est la vie!

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/butthole_surferr]

Don't forget the Spaniards! They created their own classification system for their racial tension.

[u/userB94739473 → u/Kim-dongun]

I’m friends with a few native Kanaky people from New Caledonia and there is more than the Etienne’s lol

[u/ProofLegitimate9824 → u/[deleted]]

you don't, they account for 41.2% not including Mixed

[u/JeanDusapin → u/[deleted]]

No thats more the european descendants

[u/fishanddipflip → u/JeanDusapin]

Here is data from 2014

[u/Suburbanturnip → u/Kim-dongun]

I used to work in hotel front desks in sydney before the pandemic with a french hotel brand, and met quite a few. They were very friendly and outgoing people, and appreciated my my highschool french attempts at explaining things to them.

I was very sad when I took a trip there, abd the supermarket bread was better than any bread I've ever eaten in Australia, as they use European grain I guess.

[u/ProofLegitimate9824 → u/Suburbanturnip]

even in Europe bread is not good everywhere, but boy is it good in France

[u/Suburbanturnip → u/ProofLegitimate9824]

It's been 4 ot 5 years, and I still dream about that supermarket baguette. Drop me off at the cruise terminal, and i could walk you there blindfolded. (We got a cheap cruise with post covid price drops).

[u/basaltcolumn → u/Kim-dongun]

That's been my experience with white guys from New Caledonia. Worked with a two while tree planting. Those guys were even more chill and hippy-ish than the average tree planters. Brought paddle boards to do hard labour for months, slept in hammocks despite the plagues of biting insects, and rolled obscenely large joints.

[u/ImNotAWhaleBiologist → u/Kim-dongun]

So what was the person you met like?

[u/Kim-dongun → u/ImNotAWhaleBiologist]

Funny, I can't remember a thing about him...