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Scenario: Instead of Turkey and the Maghreb, postwar European nations choose to recruit guest workers who already share a broad linguistic background in order to ease communication and integration. Believing it'll be more cost-effective to hire 100,000 Jamaicans who already speak a close relative of German vs. 100,000 Turks with minimal Indo-European fluency, Germany, Netherlands, and Austria begin recruiting from the British colonies in the West Indies and Mauritius, with smaller numbers from PNG, poor Latin American countries, the Philippines, and Suriname. France soon follows by recruiting Haitian and Central American laborers as well as Cape Verdeans, Paraguayans, and Brazilians. With the granting of independence and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, the recruitment of West Indian and Mauritian workers only accelerates in the continent. How well do these immigrants adapt with their broadly shared linguistic and to a lesser extent religious heritage and does this prevent or reduce the tensions that would later (starting in the late 1960s) affect much of Europe?
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