culture

What are some things that happened in culture that never really stuck? And what if they did?

Disclaimer: This is not intended to offend or be racist in any way or form. This is only discovering the possibilities and impact from this scenario. Please call me out if I made a mistake or if I said anything wrong. US pop culture had a huge impact on the world and influenced countries like...

So I'm working on the next chapter of my TL, and I'm focusing on cultural developments in britain. It's the early 1600s, so right around Shakespeare's day. But contrary to all the rumors and conspiracies throughout the centuries, willy was a commoner. And him rising to the top from that position...

Just a few days ago on DeviantArt, I found this map by MoshiDungo: The title of the map is What if the Americas colonised Europe? As the title explicitly implies, it shows a pre-Columbian Europe being colonized by American sailors, rather than the other way around. Unfortunately, the...

Today it was announced that Oscar-winning filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, the director of Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, has died of natural causes at the age of 91. Tomorrow would've been his 92nd birthday. Kubrick was one of the most acclaimed and controversial...

What if the US made a state to send Jewish immigrants to in the late 1800s in order to avoid anti-Semitic riots and prejudice from other immigrant groups and native born Americans. Would this state be like Quebec but with Yiddish instead of French, where in the US would it be, how many people...

What I find interesting about the perception of Traditional Chinese Culture, is that many things people view as Chinese isn’t originally Chinese. Like how the Cheongsam, the changshan, and the Queue hairstyle, isn’t originally Chinese, those things were Manchu, which were brought because of the...

I guess that in pre-1900 times it is easier to assess the "hard power" of states a.k.a their military and economic capacity than their soft power a.k.a cultural and diplomatic reach... but I felt like it would be interesting so explore which countries could have had more influence as part of the...

what will need to happen for the worlds culture to be stuck in the 1980s, Would some technology need to be delayed or just not invented at all like the transistor in the Fallout Series. Would something political have to happen.

In the early 1900s, and for a time even into the years of World War 1, there was a sense in various cultures that the 20th century has the potential to go off in a very positive and novel direction, compared to past eras, coupled with a certain sense of uncertainty. For example in Hungary, a...

I don't know how best to put this but, like all things, gaming has been vastly influenced by history. But how would certain games change in Alternate History? Before we start i do have one general request Please explain the sort of TL your alt. game is from, and how it differs from its OTL...

What was the main OTL event and/or time period which finally sealed that Europeans will ultimately conquer and spread their culture and way of life across the globe? What was the latest POD when this could've been easily prevented?

I've read on some English-language travel websites, that if a non-European wants to experience what Europe is like, they should visit Austria and Slovakia, because these countries are generally European, but so indistinct that foreign travelers can experience "Europeanness" without being too...

Wotcher, Nothing screams futurist fascism like a Moka pot or espresso machine. Daily in Australia workers worship at the black face of the failed Italian revolution like socialist workers forced to drink a double shot castor oil soy latte. The aesthetics of pressure coffee are the aesthetics of...

I'm wondering if there are any creative types born before 1900 you wish had died later. I have a few: Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Phillis Wheatley, H. P. Lovecraft and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

In 1983, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas released their second film collaboration - "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi." Spielberg was always Lucas' first choice to direct the third Star Wars movie after "Empire" director Irvin Kershner walked away from the franchise. But it almost didn't happen -...

In OTL there were many moviments in Germany and Austria that tried to return some pagan-pre roman ancient customs to Germany and Austria hungary. How far can these moviments go if there is no WWI and they are allowed to continue? Could they create some kind of mix of art noveau with ancient...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Green_(merchant) Could the early publication of his works bring Kants philosophy to the fore in Britain? OTL published in English only in 1900, how could Georgian and Victorian Britain have differed? Might Kant have been taught comparatively alongside Hume...

Wotcher, Today masculinity is defined by its esthetician, romantic yearning for the infinite and careful fashion: our cods, ‘loons and tights exemplify this. But as breech fashion rightly failed along with boorism there was another even more plebeian fashion that died like a smothered monster...

Hi all, I have been thinking recently about ATLs and whether it is possible to have territories flip their majority identity with a relatively late POD. In OTL, there have been many attempts at doing this via discriminatory policy and land reform, such as Ireland, Finland, Algeria, Tunisia...