most diverse democracy

with any POD after 1900 come up with the most racially, religiously, ethnically, culturally, and politically diverse democracy. go :)
 
The world eventually unites under a single Democratic governments, thus encompassing every religion, ethnic group, political ideology and culture on Earth.


You did say AFTER 1900. :p
 
Let Austria-Hungary continue to survive, without crashing and burning. A successful federalization of the empire would work best. Somehow avoid WW1, or keep Austria-Hungary out of it, or on the winning side at least. While the empire was at least nominally a constitutional monarchy long before it's demise, it wasn't exactly the best.

So assume the empire federalizes and manages to appease the various ethnic groups, you'd have a democracy with 11 or 12 (possibly 13?) seperate ethnic groups, about the same amount of languages, if not more, along with Christians (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox), Jews, and Muslims (The Sunni Bosniaks).
 

wormyguy

Banned
Well, in OTL the US or the aforementioned India (the latter occasionally questionably democratic).

India, Indonesia, Thailand, and especially Burma are highly diverse countries.
 
What about the United States and Canada?

Canada I think might fit, but the US, not so much.

In terms of ethnic groups whites make up 68% and Hispanics and blacks, while being the two largest minorities both make up less than 20%.
As for religion, well even less, 78.4% of America is Christian and all other religions make up less than 2%, though non-religious people do make up the second largest group at 16%.
In regards to Politics, well America only has two parties, that are both on the Right, and overall the very large majority of Americans fit into one of four categories, Left Liberal, Center Left, Right of Center and Far Right.

I'd say culture would likely be the only thing America is actually diverse in, since apart form the national cultures immigrants tend to keep you also have several culture regions with the states making those up all having their own peculiar cultural habits.
 
I'm going to go with India also. A billion people or thereabouts, several religions, one of which is quite diverse in and of itself, a multitude of languages from multiple linguistic families, and if we are counting Germans and Hungarians as different in a surviving Habsburg state, well...
 

Keenir

Banned
largely Islamic nation?

I'm sorry....what???????

the government is full of Christians and Jews, as are the upper ranks of the military, and -

shit, then there are NO diverse democracies, because one group will always have even a slight numerical advantage over another group.
 
maybe they got religiously down, but racially, culturally, and politically diverse ?

Several language families with hundreds of languages? Check.

Several family structure types among minorities? Check.

State governments ranging from communist to very conservative to pro-american? Check.

The only way to make it EVEN more diverse is to make all the Europeans stay in their enclaves as part of the new state rather than immigrating back, with Portuguese, French and British areas still intact.
 
the government is full of Christians and Jews, as are the upper ranks of the military, and -

shit, then there are NO diverse democracies, because one group will always have even a slight numerical advantage over another group.

there are Muslims and Jews in the top leaves of the US government and military, together they make up 1.6% of the USA population, now noted in some places in the Empire (Lebanon, how has Lebanon not come up?) the Muslims to Christian numbers are better, any one got % of Christians and Jews/others in the Empire in 1918?
 
Several language families with hundreds of languages? Check.

Several family structure types among minorities? Check.

State governments ranging from communist to very conservative to pro-american? Check.

The only way to make it EVEN more diverse is to make all the Europeans stay in their enclaves as part of the new state rather than immigrating back, with Portuguese, French and British areas still intact.

ok, India, close, but 80.5% are Hindu, so if we think that the USA is bad for a 78.4% majority, though noted that the other 20% are real religions not just non-religious people, if Pakistan stayed as part of India what be the %?
 
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