AHC: East Asian majority country in the New World

With a POD after 1800 (so barring outlandish scenarios of Chinese and Japanese colonialism in the Americas, not that these aren't interesting, they're just not the purpose of this thread) have and independent country in the American continent have (due to massive immigration) an East Asian majority population.

Suriname, for example, has an Indian plurality even though it was colonized by Europeans. What I'm looking for is basically a similar scenario but with East Asians instead of Indians.

Where might that be possible?
 
Maybe the US builds the Panama Canal with Asian labor. Although this is a very late POD not sure if majority is possible.

That's a grand idea, get the Americans to take over the project in the 1880's rather than in 1904 as they did OTL and depend on ten's of thousands of Chinese indentured labourers. A few of them end up getting rich post construction in enterprise and the economy booms encouraging more Chinese immigration to Panama.
 
Maybe if Japan never goes isolationist they could colonize California and/or the Pacific Northwest.

Yeah, I had required the POD to be after 1800 precisely to to avoid having people take that route. It's not that it's impossible or uninteresting, but it would just lead us to arguing how to get a non-isolationist Japan, then what would be the short term consequences of a non-isolationist Japan (particularily, how it would transform Japanese society itself, and how it would affect the rest of East Asia), and that discussion would just fill pages and pages, and even if we arrived at some kind of consensus we'd have a completely different world by the time we began to contemplate North American colonislism.
 
But speaking of California. It was very lowly populated in the beggining of the 19th century, and received quite a lot of Asian immigration (both Chinese and Japanese) before immigration restrictions kicked in.

Is there any way we can have an independent republic of California not implement immigration restrictions and continuing to receive massive East Asian immigration?
 
With a POD after 1800 (so barring outlandish scenarios of Chinese and Japanese colonialism in the Americas, not that these aren't interesting, they're just not the purpose of this thread) have and independent country in the American continent have (due to massive immigration) an East Asian majority population.

Suriname, for example, has an Indian plurality even though it was colonized by Europeans. What I'm looking for is basically a similar scenario but with East Asians instead of Indians.

Where might that be possible?
If Hawaii counts as New World, then this was more or less OTL from the late 19th or early 20th century onwards. By then, the population had become plurality East Asian, which it remains today. It's conceivable, although I am having trouble finding sources, that this had occurred sometime in the Republic period or even earlier, while the monarchy still existed, and thus for a while you would have had an independent Hawaii that was plurality East Asian.

If you want one in North America proper, somehow getting people to import contract labor from Japan and China would be the key, I think. An independent California, perhaps...
 
But speaking of California. It was very lowly populated in the beggining of the 19th century, and received quite a lot of Asian immigration (both Chinese and Japanese) before immigration restrictions kicked in.

Is there any way we can have an independent republic of California not implement immigration restrictions and continuing to receive massive East Asian immigration?
The trick is to make the people in charge not feel threatened by massive immigration. In Hawaii's case, for example, the country was largely run by the Big Five owners and other wealthy descendants of missionaries, who obviously weren't socially or economically threatened by Japanese contract laborers and in fact depended on them to provide a labor force for agriculture. So if you make independent California an oligarchy run by people in labor-intensive industries like agriculture, then there will be a lot of internal pressure to continue allowing large amounts of immigration from East Asia so that the oligarchs can maintain their profits.
 
How do you define majority? Because unless there are marriage barriers, I feel like East Asian immigrants would eventually end up intermarrying with the local population which would decrease the number of people who could be considered strictly "east asian". But I would say that a good idea is to not have the PRC come into power as they restricted emmigration up until the 70s.

Also, you would want a country in Latin America to be a really attractive place to immograte to. In order to lessen the xenophobia that can come from people encountering foreigners, you may want to make Spanish a really lucrative language to learn that provides lots of opportunities. So, I would recommend making the Spanish speaking world in general rich. That way, people in China, Japan, and Korea would want to learn Spanish before setting out to immigrate.

May want to make Japan a less desirable place to live in by making it more crowded, perhaps world war 2 could be averted, or at least any mass destruction of old Japanese cities, so that way a lot of old buildings are preserved to take up space that would be taken up by skyscrapers in OTL.

Also, it would be a good idea for China to have a really good reputation in this timeline, so that way people dont mind Chinese immigrants too much. Be a bad idea to bring in Chinese as extra labor as that would breed animosity.

Honestly, I'd say at best, we'll end up in a situation like the US, where it's hard to say if German , Irish, or English ethnicity is the largest as the two groups merged a lot.
 
That's a grand idea, get the Americans to take over the project in the 1880's rather than in 1904 as they did OTL and depend on ten's of thousands of Chinese indentured labourers. A few of them end up getting rich post construction in enterprise and the economy booms encouraging more Chinese immigration to Panama.

So basically Singapore.
 
With a POD after 1800 (so barring outlandish scenarios of Chinese and Japanese colonialism in the Americas, not that these aren't interesting, they're just not the purpose of this thread) have and independent country in the American continent have (due to massive immigration) an East Asian majority population.

Suriname, for example, has an Indian plurality even though it was colonized by Europeans. What I'm looking for is basically a similar scenario but with East Asians instead of Indians.

Where might that be possible?
Maybe Chinese Medival expedition leads to exiles settling in New World founding a state like structure, maybe mixing up with Natives
 
With a POD after 1800 (so barring outlandish scenarios of Chinese and Japanese colonialism in the Americas, not that these aren't interesting, they're just not the purpose of this thread) have and independent country in the American continent have (due to massive immigration) an East Asian majority population.

Suriname, for example, has an Indian plurality even though it was colonized by Europeans. What I'm looking for is basically a similar scenario but with East Asians instead of Indians.

Where might that be possible?
What if a radical Anti-Chinese act leads to expulsion of Chinese from US and territories ? Instead of migrating they move to Mexico and further down.
 
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Whole ASB have Japan become both economic ruined by large volcanic and earthquake leading to very large migration out of Japan mostly to new wield along pacific coast. Say 1850 by 1900 they represent large part of population and in places even majority.
 
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