I'm trying to think of a way to give Portugal a Philippines-analogue. How about the Sandwich Islands?
Yeah but the Portuguese didn't completely convert the natives and intermarry the dickens out of the Timorese, creating a Catholic hybridized race like they did in Brazil and Spain did practically everywhere in the New World (and the Philippines), did they?
Timor is heavily Catholic and a small minority speak Portuguese.
It is today....
But by the time of Indonesian occupation of the country in 1975, 75% of East Timorese were still animists. Only after that larger scale of conversions into Roman Catholicism occured, and were generally supported by the Indonesian government which at that time was still more "Pancasilaist" under Suharto's reign.
Fascinating, and just how did that happen?
I keep getting that question, I don't know what is going onFascinating? And why the font ?![]()
I'm trying to think of a way to give Portugal a Philippines-analogue. How about the Sandwich Islands?
I keep getting that question, I don't know what is going on![]()
I don't know it just seemed kind of interesting, What are the accepted religions?I see. But how about the 'fascinating' part ? Albeit Constitutional Monotheism doesn't occur quite often, and I dare to say it's a uniquely Indonesian feature.
Now a Spanish Hawaii would be interesting to say the least. King Kalakaua was convinced that Spain visited Hawaii before Cook did, and there is some sparse evidence that ships did stop over before Cook (mostly relating to the widespread diagnosis of tertiary Syphalis among the natives by the ship doctor of the Vancouver expedition).
Maybe I ought to write up something about that one sometime.
I don't know it just seemed kind of interesting, What are the accepted religions?