How Mixed Race can you make Britain?

With a POD no earlier than 1763, how mixed race can you make Britain? And by that I mean the United Kingdom only, and as in mixed race individuals not necessarily there being many races in Britain.
 

Delvestius

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With a POD no earlier than 1763, how mixed race can you make Britain? And by that I mean the United Kingdom only, and as in mixed race individuals not necessarily there being many races in Britain.

During the colonial independence movements post-WWII, Britain adopts an open door policy to all previous colonial subjects for a short time to boost their economy.

Indian, African and middle eastern ethnicities galore.
 
During the colonial independence movements post-WWII, Britain adopts an open door policy to all previous colonial subjects for a short time to boost their economy.

Indian, African and middle eastern ethnicities galore.

But isn't that basically what happened OTL? Quite a few immigrants, but not that many.
 

Delvestius

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But isn't that basically what happened OTL? Quite a few immigrants, but not that many.

Yeh, mostly Punjabi and other Indian ethnicities. But what I'm saying is if they gave former colonials expedited citizenship, then you'd have a lot more, especially Africans.
 

elkarlo

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Before they declare slavery illegal, maybe have factory owners import a ton of African slaves/workers to fuel the industrial revolution. All without Enclosures occurring?
 
IIRC weren't immigration restrictions pretty much non-existent up until the 1900s since the Dominions and a number of colonies shared British citizenship or whatever the overarching term was then? Basically you need to find a way to draw large numbers in, perhaps like our timeline post-war a manpower shortage.
 
Before they declare slavery illegal, maybe have factory owners import a ton of African slaves/workers to fuel the industrial revolution. All without Enclosures occurring?

Hmmm. That would require a big change in the way Britons think of slaves, and slavery. Maybe if indentured servitude stays in place longer then the idea of slavery is considered normal, and blacks aren't seen as a threat to white workers. Thence, blacks aren't considered enormously different, allowing a degree of miscegenation.
 
Before they declare slavery illegal, maybe have factory owners import a ton of African slaves/workers to fuel the industrial revolution. All without Enclosures occurring?

Except that slavery has never worked in this fashion, anywhere. I think industrial slavery just isn't plausible.
 
Didn't they start making moves towards something like that in the South during the American civil war towards the end when they got deperate, however by that point the fighting was over before it really got started?
 
With a POD no earlier than 1763, how mixed race can you make Britain? And by that I mean the United Kingdom only, and as in mixed race individuals not necessarily there being many races in Britain.

Easy.

Have the whole Imperial Federation idea take hold in the latter 19th century, and actual come to fruition.

A few generations later, Indians and mixed-race Anglo-Indians would be almost a majority, if not an outright majority in Britain.

(this being one of the biggest reasons why the Imperial Federation didn't pan out in OTL).
 
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In OTL Britain, the proportion of non-white people are very small. The British Government had never encouraged immigration of people from Asia or Africa into the United Kingdom. Even under different circumstances, I do not think that the British Government would have favored a large scale immigration of non-white subjects from the Asian and African colonies. Hence even under other PODs, large changes in the demographic configuration of the U.K. are not likely to happen. Only small increases in the population of non-white people are likely to occur.
 

Strategos

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Easy.

Have the whole Imperial Federation idea take hold in the latter 19th century, and actual come to fruition.

A few generations later, Indians and mixed-race Anglo-Indians would be almost a majority, if not an outright majority in Britain.

(this being one of the biggest reasons why the Imperial Federation didn't pan out in OTL).

Possible avenue for Fascist Britain?
 
Define what you mean by 'mixed race'. Race is a social construct and not anything inherent in human genetics. The reason that there appears to be seperate races is because people only ever look at either end of a continous line of variation. Take for example a line running from London to Beijing. If you took photos every 10km of representative individuals from that area you would never find a point where a supposed white race stopped and a supposed chinese race began, rather you would see a slow change between the general phenotype in London and the phenotype in Beijing.

And your question becomes far more complicated if you mean that the majority of individuals in the UK had an ancestors from more than 1 phenotype. The fact of the matter is that more than 90% of Britons have had ancestors of from several different 'races' within the last 3 centuries despite what they may culturally identify as.

And of course, there are those who consider the Celts and English to be different 'races', or even the Scots, Irish, Welsh and Cornish to be different races too. Not to mention the Geordies
 
Something occurred to me while reading about mestizos and mullatoes in Brazil. It seems that during the period where slavery was widespread, the idea that blacks were inferior and hence well suited to agricultural labour abounded. However, after slavery was abolished, the rulers of Brazil realised that they would have to mobilise a large mass of people for work they were generally considered to be unsuitable for. So they propagated the idea that a mixed race industrial labourer was superior to both black and white industrial labourers. So maybe you could have a Britain which suffers terrible internal ructions, possibly a worse English Civil War. Many Britons flee to the colonies, and don't come back. When the Restoration comes around, there is a severe labour shortage, so they bring in Africans and Indians to work the fields. Slavery becomes commonplace, up until the 1850s, as opposition to slaver domination of the economy builds up. After that, the same thing happens as in Brazil, beginning a period of interracial relationships. This makes Britain a far more mixed place than it is now.
 
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