AHC: Large European minority in SE Asian country

Just have Suez Canal be built 100 or 200 years earlier than in OTL as getting to the Philippines from Spain through the Cape of the Good Hope was much farther and expensive for peasant-dominated Andalucians, Galicians, or Canarians to immigrate to the Philippines.

I think most likely, the Spanish will settle in Mindanao where in there are more conflicts instead of the Visayans..I forgot that the reason why the Spanish were able to retain Luzon was because of Forced Conversions by the people that allied to the Spaniards, so the areas that got decimated due to revolt or remained pagan earlier were resettled by people from areas loyal to the Spanish which had thick population densities like Ilocandia and Batangas causing the natives to get assimilated, an example is what happened to Irraya(Upper Cagayan) and Central Luzon and the Macabebe scouts maintained the Spanish control over Luzon, if they get defeated the Spanish will get expelled there, so I think it will be Mindanao which would be settled by the Spanish and instead of Visayans resettling Mindanao it will be Spanish creating a more Chavacano speaking Chrisitian Mindanao.
 
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Perhaps a Spanish "Boat People" like refugee crisis after the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s? People wring their hands a bit, then somehow they end up in the Philippines in large numbers as best of a series of bad options.
 

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I wonder if the Spanish Empire could start large amounts of immigration to Taiwan. You might get a cool creole language thats a mix of Min Nan, Taiwanese Aboriginal and Spanish.

I think the Spanish, Dutch or Portuguese are your best bet for this.
 
I wonder if the Spanish Empire could start large amounts of immigration to Taiwan. You might get a cool creole language thats a mix of Min Nan, Taiwanese Aboriginal and Spanish.

I think the Spanish, Dutch or Portuguese are your best bet for this.

It's not too much of a stretch to have the Spanish drive out the Dutch instead of OTL's reversal. I don't think the colonized ultimately matters so much here, as long as it's one of those three. Let's not forget that a lot of Taiwanese IOTL are basically what we could call mestizo between Han and aboriginals. Adding some Europeans to that is rather easy.
 
If Spain can can hold on to the Philippines until their civil war, a lot of people on the losing side could move there.
 
If you do that, you are officially a god of AH :p

Getting a large number of *Aborigines to the Yukon is actually pretty straightforward, in the LoRaGverse.

Getting them to stay there for more than a handful of years is more challenging, but probably doable.
 
I also want to see how the food will develop ITTL.
Oh, that's really interesting: I think TTL Taiwanese cuisine is a very interesting mix of Indigenous Taiwanese, Hokkien and Spanish elements. Imagine a noodle with chicken and taro strips? Or a bread made from taro/sweet potato flour? You want a steamed boar for Christmas?

(And hey, regarding Formosan Chavacano, the Spaniards should set up a fort in the northwest (most of OTL Taoyuan) and encourage its settlement.)
 
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This is Post-1900, however...

If counted as "SE Asia", I think that East Timor could become a Portuguese New Caledonia if done correctly. Perhaps there is no Carnation revolution, and a reformist Estado Novo holds on until the end of the Cold War. I could see East Timor being developed as a tourist destination by the Portuguese government. East Timor could probably attract some Portuguese migrants Europeans would probably not ever amount to 10% (5-8% seems like a more probable ceiling), though Goans and Macanese can potentially amount to another 1 or 2% and mixed-race individuals could probably reach 2-3%. After the Estado Novo falls, or gives way to complete democracy, I could see East Timor being granted special status similar to New Caledonia (unlike Portugal's insular African territories and Cabinda there were no moves in East Timor to seriously integrate the place). Eventually, some years (or decades) down the road East Timor votes for independence or associated status with Portugal. While probably retaining a Portuguese identity to an extent, a good portion of the Portuguese population there would have been born in East Timor or lived there for most of their life, and would identify as an East Timoran once the country gains independence.
 
or a different formation of Indonesia meaning that most of the Europeans resident there don't leave after independence.

This is definitely /the/ best way, though I'd rather have this in a situation where the natives are in better position to compete economically.
 
I have narrowed down my possible selections to the following:

1/ Taiwan - Spanish or Portugese or Russian or

2/ Sulawesi or

3/ Cambodian rump state centred around Kampot using the Elephant range for the expatriates.

Thoughts?
 
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