It might have been a unifying language, or at least take the role of English in modern Philippines.
Filipino was made (in a super simplified summary) because Manuel Quezon and his cabinet wanted to reduce communication differences between the regions, except that kinda became a Tagalog...
It’s not so difficult to keep Chavacano (a hybrid of Spanish and Filipino) alive and with more dialects. It would just need a less active occupation or a less genocidal occupation from the Americans and Japanese.
Chavacano still exists in Zamboanga, around the southwest tip of the Philippines...
I'm still in the early 40's and I like the cultural changes so far. I'm not an expert in the media industry, especially that era, but it's an interesting read so far especially when I was raised with a lot of older Disney animated films as a kid.
I just came from an AWOLAWOT to Oceans divide reading spree over the weekend and now I see this timeline. I’ll be reading part 1 in a long spree and catch up with this.
I wonder how this Alt-alt Disney timeline would be compared to the previous one I just binged
Too much plot armor around the stevens brothers and Margo also soured things for me.
A lot of problems wouldn’t happen if Plot Induced Stupidity didn’t happen