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In Swiss Romandie people get really offended if you call them French, though culturally they are pretty much the same as the people in the neighbouring parts of France. I guess its a problem of the English language not really distinguishing between peoples and nationalities- with a lot of East...

I would second that an independent Philippines under the Japanese sphere and with heavy Japanese control of the economy is the most likely outcome if such a war did happen, though I don't think its particularly likely. At this stage Japan's priority still somewhat remains survival, not...

See also: modern immigration. The third world people are hardly scrabbling to move to northern Sweden where land is practically being given away or a small polish village which is suffering population depletion. They want to go to the bright lights. To London, berlin, etc.... It was no...

The US? No

Don't forget the era in which they operated also. The Ottomans were largely a gunpowder era empire. The nadir of the Byzantines was in the era of castles. Much easier for the Ottomans to expand.

Though the Japanese people doing this is pretty ASB I do think there is certainly room for some die hard militarists to try and do this. Perhaps they could latch onto some Southern Court pretender and proclaim him as the true emperor to get around the fact that they are being disloyal in their...

Sorry but as a technicality can we stop calling the entente the allies. WW1 was the entente vs the allies. The German side was the allies side. Anyway. On topic economic history would of course take a different course in this scenario thus the depression as we know it would obviously be...

It is true that Britain was far more likely to be a supporter of the north but.... this wasn't necessary and lacks the rule of cool big changes that the US getting smashed and the CSA surviving brings.

The Japanese forced the Koreans to adopt Japanese names. I'm not sure what the argument is here. The Japanese tried to change Korean mindsets in the way they changed the mindsets of the Japanese lands towards a emperor-cult, empire first view of things is definitely true. However not only...

That second one is representative of a huge misconception way too many people have about the Japanese in Korea. As the article itself says this Japanese name thing started in 1939, by which time WW2 had started and the Japanese were already pretty far gone down the militarist path. Prior to...

That's not particularly relevant to the thread. I don't know where you heard that but its just not true. The British state was never too big on prosthelytising at all. I couldn't comment on the other two but the Japanese in Korea actively tried to STOP Koreans from trying to become too...

Yes, I would go with this. I don't see them using it on a city in Europe.

ASB to happen. But if it does I would imagine BC is less developed. Not on account of the Americans being worse rulers or anything like that. But in this scenario it doesn't have the advantage of being Canada's point on the west coast, it is just yet another point on the American west coast...

In modern times middle class Indians have some really rather British habits. Its not too ASB for this to become stronger and for the Indian influence on the UK to similarly be stronger. Britain didn't really try with Ireland actually, it was the Irish themselves who saw more opportunity in...

Someday I will get back to my japan doesn't close up timeline. Someday Plus the bigger factor: they were attacking china. Japan vs a china that has it's shit reasonably together is a major mismatch, china was just in a different league to japan.

As long as it is sensible and you clearly are supportive of it then go ahead. I could see things getting rather iffy if for example a Balkan nationalist writes some wish fulfiment wank where all his people's neighbours get wiped out.

With the Occitans et al though it is easy to argue that they are speaking "Wrong" French. With Dutch it is a lot more clear that it is a utterly different language. Still, given even in Belgium as it stood French steadily advanced as the prestige language, seems likely to be even more so if...

No, it would be a complete disaster to try and work that out. Lots of genocides and wars to reclaim lost territory. The idea that Europeans just came in and randomly drew lines this cutting up nice natural ethnic boundaries is a big myth. Europe has gone through centuries of war, migration...

You don't include the actual one of the norse.... Anyway. Off the top of my head. 1: Native Americans in the ice age. Including some that came over from Europe but were overwhelmed by the Asians. 2: Norse 3: A few polynesian boats of the years that added to the gene pool. Links weren't...

I think you need to read up on history a bit more. Agricultural villages are not idealist utopian places. Life is tough when your only concern is trying to grow enough food to survive through winter. Of course they learn agriculture from somewhere and don't all come up with it independantly...