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Originally Posted by DGG
Not always, not if the people of the colony want to stay subjects of the colonial power. One such example is the people of the Falkland Islands.
However, the will of the people does not always count. If a referendum would have been held in Hong Kong, most people would probably have preferred to stay under UK rule instead of being transferred to the People's Republic of China, but China was allowed to take over anyway.
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True enough, by and large though when the majority of a country wants to
leave there comes a point where either:
1] you force them to stay
2] you have to let them go.
America is unusual in that unlike most colonial powers it has retained and actually absorbed it's colonial territory making it part of the nation state. Not many countries have achieved that.