AH Challenge: Integrated Colonies

While the challenge is to have some colonies integrated within the primary countries in the modern day I've put this in pre-1900 since the POD can be during part of the 19th century I'm putting it here.

So, here's your challenge, with a POD no earlier than 1850 have at the least three of the old colonial powers retain some of their colonies (or parts of them) as either integral parts of the country (IE French Guyana) or as Autonomous parts of the country (IE Greenland) into the modern day.
 
For the larger, heavily populated colonies like India or Indonesia it is close to impossible. Their culture is far too dissimilar from their home cultures and too many people live there. For smaller colonies, like French Guyana, this is certainly possible. Surinam could have remained Dutch, just like their eastern neighbour remained French. The same is true for the carribean or pacific islands, where there are still many former colonies that remain part of their colonisers, like the Netherlands antilles, Martinique or Frenc polynesia. The Danish virgin islands could share the same faith if Denmark doesn't sell them. Their are other possible options, maybe with a different decolonisation of Indonesie Dutch new Guinea remains Dutch.
Large settler colonies, like Canada or Australia, remaining part of their original colonisers is hard, certainly with the example of the USA. The moment something like dominions is created, the first steps towards independence are set.
Algeria remaining French is maybe possible, but I am afraid that would mean an ethnic cleansing of the native Algerians. Sadly not entirely unheard of, but I am not certain if the French are willing to do that.
 
While the challenge is to have some colonies integrated within the primary countries in the modern day I've put this in pre-1900 since the POD can be during part of the 19th century I'm putting it here.

So, here's your challenge, with a POD no earlier than 1850 have at the least three of the old colonial powers retain some of their colonies (or parts of them) as either integral parts of the country (IE French Guyana) or as Autonomous parts of the country (IE Greenland) into the modern day.
French guyana, dutch guyana, British guyana.
 

wormyguy

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Without WWII (or with a different outcome), Lybia could have remained Italian if immigration trends continued.
 

I was gonna say something about the huge places like the Raj or Canada being things you could just forget about, but I figured I'd leave that up to people, since I actually did think of situations where parts of each could be kept (the Portuguese Indian cities, Newfoundland), but yeah, I'm not expecting any huge areas, just more than was actually integrated/kept OTL.

As for France I was thinking maybe only Northern Algeria, maybe Madagascar.
 
Hong Kong

Perhaps, as things look messy in China in the 20's and 30's, China comes seeking modern weapons. Some far-sighted British decide to offer them the weapons for a nominal cost-just enough to ship Great War surplus rifles and machine guns overseas--plus some planes and tanks (newer models, but they keep the factories running, so Britian subsidizes the pound cost)

This is all break even, or even cheaper--but the catch is that the lease on Hong Kong and vicinity is converted to a direct transfer. So, when the late 20th century comes around, there's no lease to expire.
 
France holding on to Algeria isn't ASB and it doesn't require a brutal ethnic cleansing, especially if the POD is in the mid XIXth century. The biggest problem in Algeria was that the majority of the population (native muslims essentially) were completely disenfranchised, and the structure in place heavily favored the pieds noirs, a lot of which weren't even French.

Considering France's success in other parts of its country (beyond obvious religious difficulties which I think could be mitigated because of the Republic being secular), it's not to farfetched to imagine a scenario where France decides to start integrating Algeria into the Métropole earlier than OTL; my proposal would be, at the end of the XIXth century as France starts to impose Parisian culture elsewhere, they decide to do the same with Algeria (treating it as a DOM rather than colony earlier than OTL, at least I think it's earlier than OTL).

If that happens, and if the muslims are considered citizens by the Parisian government, they won't be disenfranchised and there won't be such blatant abuses of the native populations.

Of course, this all requires a change in mentality in 1880's/1890's france, which would soon after flirt with Fascism (Boulanger) and would even turn anti-semite (Affaire Dreyfus), a daunting task I admit.
 
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