What would be the effect of a colonial movement to impregnate "savages" to spread white Gene's and civilize them?
I've heard about this vaguely but don't know about it that clearly. Can you explain about it, a bit?You get Brazil.
I've heard about this vaguely but don't know about it that clearly. Can you explain about it, a bit?
It was public policy to encourage Euro immigration in order to "breed out the black" out of Brazilians. They still thought Blacks were inferior, but instead of segregating them, they sought to get rid of them by making it so that they're "blackness" disappeared from the physical appearance of they're descendants.I've heard about this vaguely but don't know about it that clearly. Can you explain about it, a bit?
...which was summarized in this painting by Modesto Brocos, himself an immigrant from the Spanish region of Galicia, entitled "The Redemption of Cain":It was public policy to encourage Euro immigration in order to "breed out the black" out of Brazilians. They still thought Blacks were inferior, but instead of segregating them, they sought to get rid of them by making it so that they're "blackness" disappeared from the physical appearance of their descendants.
But if the premise is to possibly make it a reverse "one drop rule", whereby any shred of "white/European" heritage among anyone would then make them classified as so could be a very interesting scenario.
Thats West Africa from the 1400s to the 1700s
Thats West Africa from the 1400s to the 1700s
A very relevant point. Unless the imperialist nation's population is almost impossibly high, this will never go as per what they will expect since you can't force people to go against their nature to support your empire's ambitions. The people of the colonized land would see them as a leagacy of the colonization and the colonizer would see them as "too dark".More people of mixed race that aren't fully welcome in either the colonizers or the colonized's society.
it was pre-colonial, it depended on the status descent systems of african polities or communities mentioned and yes they were not only "quite" prominent but critical in the formation of the Trans-Atlantic world. In Africa and the early era of European-African relations they were near equals and if there are tweaks made with Papal Edicts and Iberian royal decree a middle ground of minimal blood and or cultural acculturation could result in a very different landscape.I understand people of mixed African and European descent were able to sit atop the social ladder in the colonies and later countries on the African continent, and were even quite prominent in the Atlantic Slave trade (at least for the Portuguese), but its not like they were ever seen as actually equal with "pure" Europeans. And although OP has not responded to my question on the premise, OTL example you stated goes against I guess what I had in mind.
In my mind I was seeing it like this:
In the Southern US - One drop of African blood = you are black and therefore almost surely enslaved.
Reverse this in colonialism to get
One drop of European blood = you are European and therefore equal, no matter what the rest of your heritage/blood is.
I just know this is an almost ASB stretch but I wonder if it is possible.
absolutely.West Africa had a population of locals who were partly descended from European traders?
absolutely.
What would be the effect of a colonial movement to impregnate "savages" to spread white Gene's and civilize them?
Why does it have to be Europeans attempting to play genetic politics. Maybe because we are closer to such attitudes in time. Why not the Moors trying to dilute the European peoples in Iberia. The Turks in the Balkans. A Bantu empire doing it to the San. Or to get really original, the San to the Bantu.
It was public policy to encourage Euro immigration in order to "breed out the black" out of Brazilians. They still thought Blacks were inferior, but instead of segregating them, they sought to get rid of them by making it so that they're "blackness" disappeared from the physical appearance of they're descendants.
The policy was called "racial whitening" and I've always found it interesting...which was summarized in this painting by Modesto Brocos, himself an immigrant from the Spanish region of Galicia, entitled "The Redemption of Cain":
It was public policy to encourage Euro immigration in order to "breed out the black" out of Brazilians. They still thought Blacks were inferior, but instead of segregating them, they sought to get rid of them by making it so that they're "blackness" disappeared from the physical appearance of they're descendants.