What's a city significant and well known in your country, but will raise an eyebrow to anyone outside of it? Discussion

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People are probably just confused that it isn't in England. The only time most people hear about Newcastle is in sports, but there Newcastle is an English team.

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u/sacky85 Aug 31 '24

We managed to take /r/Newcastle before the Brits. They have the much longer /r/NewcastleUponTyne

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u/poopyfarroants420 Aug 31 '24

Sock it to those colonists !

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '24

Because Austrlians are famously known for their non-colonising.

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u/heyho22 Aug 31 '24

I mean the British colonised Australia. Australia as a state is a result of British colonialism.

Say what you will about how Australia has exerted its influence regionally, it treated the indigenous population, or even how it aided British and US colonialism. But Australia as a state has not really been a coloniser as such.

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u/noteasily0ffended Sep 01 '24

Lol Queenslanders literally colonised Papua New Guinea without the UK's permission back in the 1880s, it was basically an Australian colony until the 1970s.

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u/heyho22 Sep 01 '24

Yeah ngl i’m not super across the involvement with Papua New Guinea. I knew there was some control exerted there though, so i wrapped it up in the “exerted it’s influence regionally”.

But regardless, I wouldn’t exactly call the colonisation of Papua New Guinea as “famous”

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '24

No shit. The white Australians today are definitely thought of as colonisers by the indigenous populations.

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u/heyho22 Aug 31 '24

Yes and they would be considered British colonisers of Australia

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '24

They're Australian now.

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u/heyho22 Aug 31 '24

Australian Independence occurred in 1901, 115ish years after the first fleet landed. Are 5th-6th generation white Australians colonisers? Should the 4 million colonisers “returned” to Europe after independence?

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u/TheParaplegicPanda Sep 01 '24

Australian prisoners

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u/montblanc6 Aug 31 '24

And this is how my friends, UK paid for hundreds of years of colonialism across the world. Happy ending for the world. The end.

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u/jono12132 Aug 31 '24

I'm from England and the only reason I know Australia's Newcastle is because of sport and the Newcastle Knights. I think it's a bit of an obscure place that most people wouldn't know but English rugby league fans might know it. Like how Australians have no reason to know places like Wigan, St Helens and Hull but might for the same reasons.

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u/Ghost_of_Cain Aug 31 '24

I personally love Newcastle, Northern Ireland the most.

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u/Confident_Reporter14 Aug 31 '24

Not to be confused with Newcastle, Ireland

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u/Geographizer Geography Enthusiast Aug 31 '24

Not to be confused with Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA; or the other Newcastle, USA.

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u/BadChris666 Aug 31 '24

They should have called it New Newcastle.

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u/Kooontt Aug 31 '24

Or Newercastle

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u/docju Aug 31 '24

There's a Newcastle in Northern Ireland too, and I got confused when I learned the football team is not from there... and then there is also Newcastle Under Lyme in Stoke!

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u/CaptainoftheVessel Aug 31 '24

I worked with an English guy who was the most apologetic supporter of Newcastle United.

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u/hack404 Sep 01 '24

They used to have a Newcastle United Football Club, which occasionally confused people.