Seems like the relationship between countries that got colonized and the country that colonized them generally range from fairly close to neutral to there’s still hatred. In the Western hemisphere, pretty much every country was once a colony of a European power – some still are to this day.
Out of the all the countries on this side of the world who got created by various colonial empires, who would you say has the best relationship with their former colonizer?
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Canada probably, they even continue to share a king.
I don’t count French Guyana because it’s not a country.
the united states
Cuba and Spain.
Puerto Rico with the USA, since it’s still colonized to this day.
Many other Caribbean countries with the UK, the Netherlands, and France.
The Head of State of Canada is the King Charles.
Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, so it’s a pretty close relationship.
And French Guyana of course (rich legally speaking is as part of France as any other part of France).
These are the ones that come to my mind.
Suriname is pretty tight with Netherlands iirc
Not Haiti and Dominican Republic, that’s for sure
Brazil, since Portuguese citizens and Brazilian citizens have mutual civil rights in their constitutions.
Which means that if a Brazilian has the right to vote in Portugual, a Portuguese has the right to vote in Brazil, if a Portuguese is allowed to enroll in university or be hired for jobs without special documents as if he were a citizen, the same applies to Brazilians in Portugal.
While most of the culture is not interchangeable and resident visas are not part of the agreement, it is somewhat impressive, to the point were you have an anti-immigration politician in Portugal that is a born and raised Brazilian.
Canada because it’s a constitutional monarchy that shares the king/head of state with the UK.
Ignoring Canada, it’s the US with the UK.
If only doing central and South America, it’s probably Suriname, as they have a massive number of citizens living in the Netherlands.
If only Iberian American states, then probably Spain and Mexico? Guessing because Mexico is a large economy to sell into, Spain has enough human and monetary capital to invest in Mexico as well as to buy stuff, and I’m sure Spain is an attractive spot for many Mexicans to live or go for education in. Brazil and Portugal are close, but that’s more so because they invade Portugal because it’s a better quality of living but the influence isn’t returned all that much to Brazil
I think it might be Argentina.
Argentina has strong ties with Spain due to being the country with the most Spanish citizens abroad, while Spain is the country with the most Argentinians abroad, so both countries have a very solid relationship.
Spain is the second largest source of foreign investment in Argentina.
Argentina is the only country in the region with a Working Holiday agreement with Spain (along a few countries in the world: NZ, Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea).
Argentina is the country with the most Spanish consulates in the region (5 consulates).
Canada.
Just search this gets asked a lot by non Latinos.
Most don’t have a bad relationship with Spain
Probably Canada and the UK. The US and UK also up until very recently viewed each other very favorably, and so far as I can tell, both are way closer to the UK than any former Spanish or Portuguese colonies are to their colonizers.
As far as LATAM countries, I think people from LATAM would be better equipped to explain public perception of relations with Spain and will not opine further than what I have already stated regarding Canada.
DR has a good relationship with Spain
By far, French Guyana first (still part of French). Secondly, Greenland (still part of Denmark, but getting more and more autonomy and debating globally that they want to be independent some day). Then Suriname, maybe?
Then, we would have Canada which was even considered by some european authorities to be part of EU showed in some Media few weeks ago after US tariffs rise.
The rest of the countries…they’ve grown so much as their own thing with their own businesses…I couldn’t make a a ranking list.
I know that Spain gives Spanish citizenship to any Iberoamerican citizen after 2 years of legalized residency in Spain, including Brazil. I mean, not even Portugal does that to Brazilians, so…
I don’t know if there’s other country in europe that makes that easy for a citizen from one of 3 Americas to get citizenship. If so, drop here in the comments, that I’d like to know.