AHC/WI: Christian and strongly French influenced Vietnam/ Dai nam

Like the title says you have to make Vietnam very "French" influenced and very "Western" by changing the French colonial period and avoid the Communist backslash. The French people should recognize the Vietnamese people as equal and maintain strong relation even after decolonization. POD after 1815. BTW do someone know how much high was the Christian population in 1914?
 
Problem here is classic French settlement policy. Basically, France didn't have that many people to send as they wanted to keep as many bodies for the inevitable revanche against Prussia.
So at the peak, you had like 10k Europeans in Indochine, clearly not enough. Also the question was, why go there? You had better land opportunities in Maghreb. Added to the fact that France had an habit of sending its worse administrators there...
A possible PoD to strengthen the colony though could be to butterfly away the Bac Lé ambush which isn't that hard to do. It caused a huge backlash and led to the fall of Ferry. Don't have that, Ferry stays and the colonial party keeps more power and can send more colonists there.
 
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<P>Problem here is classic French settlement policy. Basically, France didn't have that many people to send as they wanted to keep as many bodies for the inevitable revanche against Prussia.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So at the peak, you had like 10k Europeans in Indochine, clearly not enough. Also the question was, why go there? You had better land opportunities in Maghreb. Added to the fact that France had an habit of sending its worse administrators there...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>A possible PoD to strengthen the colony though could be to butterfly away the Bac Lé ambush which isn't that hard to do. It caused a huge backlash and led to the fall of Ferry. Don't have that, Ferry stays and the colonial party keeps more power and can send more colonists there.</P>
Lol, I didn´t even think of French migration, I was thinking more of influencing native people that for some reason tended to convert to Christianity more than other people in the region.
 
You did have a LOT of Catholics in Annam (Northern Vietnam). Most of them fled South when Vietnam was divided. Then a lot of them became boat people when the Communists took control of the South.
 
You did have a LOT of Catholics in Annam (Northern Vietnam). Most of them fled South when Vietnam was divided. Then a lot of them became boat people when the Communists took control of the South.
But how much % in Vietnam+Cambodia? Just for curiosity.
 
All I can find is a current figure at 7% with a comment that it's relatively stable
http://belleindochine.free.fr/ArchitectureReligieuse.htm

If you can read French I highly recommend this website for any question about Indochine, it's super useful!
Yeah, 7-9% right now but I guess they were a lot more before the Communist rule. I mean there are 13% Buddhist so we can expect the same ratio between Christian and Buddhist, so maybe 30-40% of Christian.
 
If you can have a non-Communist Vietnam gain independence, this becomes more possible. Christianity may have continued to grow without the suppression of the Communist regime. Note, for example, that South Korea had a small Christian population in 1945 but it has since grown dramatically.
 
idk about French-influenced, but Catholicism can be brought in from the humble set of islands across the sea to the east. a more empowered, less chained to the dying Empire set of islands. ;););)

(i mean to say that an early independent Philippines may possibly go for tiny pieces of weakly-held Asian colonies.)
 
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