The other states that are in association with metropolitan countries are elegible for associated status.
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For far too long the people of the Caribbean have depended on aid from the more metropolitan countries of North America and Europe,
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France, Algeria's former metropolitan country, and other West European countries failed to take effective steps to end the confusion in Africa.
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For instance, the classic division of labour can be described as the metropolitan countries had the most industries, while the colonial countries had less.
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The members of the New York Metropolitan Country Music Association are celebrating their 21st anniversary on Oct . 23 at the Glendale Memorial Building in Queens, where they hold a dance every Saturday night.
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Thousands of former colonials returned to metropolitan countries in Western Europe; because they had controlled key sectors of many fledgling African economies prior to independence, their exodus often resulted in devastating economic repercussions.
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metropolitan countries often siphoned off people with the highest qualifications and the most ambitions, while immigration from neighboring republics promised to reshape the cultural orientation and, quite literally, the complexion of Belizean society.
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Unlike other former settler colonies such as those in the Americas and Australia, Europeans and their descendants on the African continent never outnumbered the indigenous demographic; nevertheless, they found ways to consolidate power and exert a disproportionate influence on the administrative policies of their respective metropolitan countries.
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"To some of us in the real world, this only induces a sense of wonder that intelligent beings in the metropolitan countries can be so oblivious, so color blind, to what has happened in the African continent over the past 15 years, " he said.
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Brenda Giammanco, the head of the 14-year-old New York Metropolitan Country Music Association, based in Brooklyn, said her organization was the first to sponsor Garth Brooks in a free concert in New York City . ( It was at the band shell in Forest Park, Queens, in 1989 .)