In 1511 the city of Malacca, in modern-day Malaysia, was taken over by the Portuguese Empire. They'd hold it until 1641, date in which it was conquered by the Dutch.
During more than a hundred years of Portuguese rule, mixed-marriages were actively encouraged by the government. This was meant to ensure that the future generations would be Catholic, Portuguese-speaking and loyal to the crown, which mattered a lot more than things like race and ethnicity in the eyes of an overstretched Empire with a reduced metropolitan population such as Portugal. The ultimate result of this was the emergence of the
Kristang people, Eurasians of mixed Portuguese and Malaysian descent. Nowdays, there are around 37,000 Kristang people in existence, mainly in Malacca and Singapore.
Your challenge is to make this community as large and successful as possible.
One way to do this would be with a scenario simililar to my TL (In Pride of Place), in which Portuguese Asia gets wanked and then the monarchy relocates there. I've only written one update so far, so we haven't even reached the conquest of malacca in that TL, but something like the Kristang will surely emerge at some point, and they'll obviously be more successful.
However, here in this thread, I'm preferentially looking for more moderate scenarios which would generate less butterflies. My intent is to analyse the maximum growth possibilities for an Eurasian community in an history that doesn't divert too far from our own. This should provide me with some very valuable insights.
So, do you guys have any ideas? Is there any place where the Kristang could have settled after the takeover of Malacca by the Dutch?
Maybe some place in what remained of Portuguese southeast asia (Timor? Is it too poor?). Alternatively we could just have the Portuguese take some piece of land shortly before the Dutch takeover and then settle the Kristang in that piece of land (how does a Kristang Formosa sound? Kristang mAustralia, maybe?)
Anyway, let me know what you think. Please be creative!