Which places could have most easily avoided a european settler majority?

In our timeline, there are countries and even entire continents worth of populations mostly made up of the descendants of european settlers who got there in the context of modern colonial efforts.

Which of these lands and continents could have most easily dodged the bullet, without throwing in ASB?

And the other way round, are there places today that could have joined the likes of Australia and Argentina in having indigenous populations largely replaced - or vastly outnumbered by the grandchildren of european colonists during the last 600 years or so?
 
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The natives in both places all three places got hit hard with European diseases, though.

Another possibility would be Siberia. A weaker, more European-focused Russia (maybe one of the False Dmitris succeeds in converting it into a Polish puppet? or just have the Time of Troubles be more devastating) and you'd see much less expansion in that direction, which might let some other state develop.

For places where Europeans could be the majority: a lot of the former British Empire imported laborers from India to a lot of their smaller colonies, with the result that plenty of places like Guyana, Fiji, etc. are either plurality or near-plurality South Asian. If some other country grabbed them, or if India remained divided among several nations (and thus less feasible as a giant labor source for the British), you might see some of that immigration replaced by other groups.
 
Regions colonised by Europeans gained a European majority for pretty inevitable reasons. Good land, combined with peoples decimated by disease who weren't using it to European standards, tended to form a mixture that made it very easy for Europeans to displace. Alternate agricultural developments seems to be the only real way to save a lot of places colonised.

And Europeans could still do better. It isn't hard to imagine South Africa and Namibia with a white majority, or those countries plus Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, etc. with racial demographics like Brazil.

Another possibility would be Siberia. A weaker, more European-focused Russia (maybe one of the False Dmitris succeeds in converting it into a Polish puppet? or just have the Time of Troubles be more devastating) and you'd see much less expansion in that direction, which might let some other state develop.

I think Russian colonisation of Siberia, whether under a Polish thumb or not, is pretty inevitable once the Russians have removed the Tatars from their path. I don't think any of the native groups ever could've put up a fight. And then we have to define "European"--do Tatars count as Europeans, since they're the most likely to colonise Siberia? The others would probably be the Chinese and Persians.

Isn't Hawaii Asian majority?

That technically counts, but it's hard to see how Hawaii could avoid not having the same fate as Tonga. The monarchy surviving isn't hard, but since the native Hawaiians had such a die off because of disease and such, and Hawaii's land was so coveted by outsiders, importing labourers is pretty logical. I just don't see the Hawaiian rulers not letting foreigners getting any foothold there.
 
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