WI: Europe tries to "Mestizify" Africa

Wow your failure to understand this is truly remarkable!

To the extent that explaining its humorous, and very, very obvious, comedic intention and point of origin is pointless.
(It might be a little off colour, and perhaps not strictly PG-13, but your censoring satire ... that falls into the category of Something I don't believe I have to explain. So I'm not going to do it for you)
Wow that's pretentious and unwarranted. How is this censorship? Your message is still there for everyone to see, in all its crass cheapness.
 
Rape and sexual exploitation/sex trafficking aren't funny. In any case history shows us when you get men and women together, babies result without the need for force, although sadly force is not rare at all.
 
The best way to get this is by establishing a Portuguese colony in the Cape during the early 1500s. Early Portuguese colonies suffered from severe gender imbalance, mostly due to sailor superstitions saying that women in ships caused bad luck. Miscegenation through intermarriage between Portuguese men and Xhosa women would start immediately. After that, it's only a matter of time before the favorable conditions of the Cape cause the mixed-raced population to explode. Then, it can spread througout a large part of southern African, perhaps in a way that is analogous to the Brazillian bandeirantes movement.

Regarding the enactment of policies deliberately promoting miscegenation, Iberian and Latian American nations were inconsistant about it, but there exist case where those policies were, in fact, enacted. More competent colonial administrators in Portuguese Asia, such as Afonso de Albuquerque, encouraged their men to settle permanently in India and Southeast Asia and take local wives. These were called casados (married men), and colonial administrations frequently gave them land confiscated from Muslims.

I don't know if there were any laws, but there was definitely some form of racialist pro-miscegenation movement in Brazil during the 19th century.

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This painting is called The Redemption of Cain, and it shows a black woman thanking God for the birth of a white grandson (the woman holding the baby is her mixed-raced daughter).

Also, Paraguay went as far as to ban the marriage between people of the same race during the de Francia dictatorship.

I'm not trying to propagate the myth that there was no racism in Iberian cultures, I'm just saying that, given the right circunstances, state-sponsored miscegenation can, indeed, occur.

The problem is that Europeans fundamental see race differently than our settler population, Whitemess are put on a pedestal and fetished among the colonial population, while among Europeans Whiteness are simply the generic norm. As such you may see a campaign among colonial population to Whiten their population, while the home countries mostly only care about whether the colonies was loyal and not a money drain.
 
The problem is that Europeans fundamental see race differently than our settler population, Whitemess are put on a pedestal and fetished among the colonial population, while among Europeans Whiteness are simply the generic norm. As such you may see a campaign among colonial population to Whiten their population, while the home countries mostly only care about whether the colonies was loyal and not a money drain.
I think there is a lot of truth to that, but in many places the preference for lighter skin predated European imperialism (East Asia being an example). Here's an article for more detail.
https://quillette.com/2019/02/13/the-origins-of-colourism/
 
The title of the painting gives a hint about attitudes - Cain and his descendants are conflated with blackness, hence a white child is redeeming that bloodline.
 
The problem is that Europeans fundamental see race differently than our settler population, Whitemess are put on a pedestal and fetished among the colonial population, while among Europeans Whiteness are simply the generic norm. As such you may see a campaign among colonial population to Whiten their population, while the home countries mostly only care about whether the colonies was loyal and not a money drain.

@Gabingston has the right of it. Furthermore (and this is as much a rebuttal of @Joao97 as much as anything), Brazil also sought and acted to boost the white population there to the expense of the mixed and black populations as a deliberate whitening policy (never mind the fact that the notion of "total absorption" of black and mixed Brazilians as proposed could be argued as de facto ethnic cleansing, or worse).

If they were truly as racially inclusive as oft believed, that policy wouldn't have been necessary or desirable. The notion of pro-miscegenation as a cultural touch stone, with that context in mind, points more to an intended endstate of a white country over time more than anything else (@sloreck your comment is pretty revealing of the subtext of that painting's title). Paraguay was run by an Enlightenment-obsessed quasi-degenerate loon in El Supremo de Francia, and known for his bizarre attitudes on marriage and sex in general, so it's really not saying much to bring up his dictate on heterogeneous marriage.
 
Considering the rate at which the Italian settler population was growing in Eritrea during the 1930s, it's plausible for this to occur if Fascist Italy remains neutral during World War 2 and has managed to settle even more expatriates from the Italian motherland in the Horn of Africa but I'm not sure how it long it'd need to take. Could also be replicated in Italian Libya as well.
 
The problem with the settlers "overtaking" the locals, over and above numbers is cultural/religious. In the Americas, the local cultures were shattered by the Europeans, including suppression of local religions. Had race mixing really been a goal, a mixed population with variation, but all adhering (mostly) to the same culture (including religion) would result. This did happen, and the imported African slaves arrived with being cut off from their cultural bases, and also frequently having not that much in common except being black. In places like Libya, Algeria, Eritrea the colonial powers were not only faced with being on the very short end of demography, but also cultures (and religions) that remained relatively intact.
 

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The settler population overtaking the native population could be discussed. But this requires that there be very less interaction and interference between the two. Is it possible?
But yes,you would need a lot of technologies and planning for them to establish such colonies in Africa. It's because climate itself would be one problem.
 
@cult following : Yes biblically the descendants of Ham are to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water", and this was a justification for African slavery with black Africans being the descendants of Ham. However this title is even stronger, with blackness being associated with Cain, the first murderer (Genesis 4:9).
 
@cult following : Yes biblically the descendants of Ham are to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water", and this was a justification for African slavery with black Africans being the descendants of Ham. However this title is even stronger, with blackness being associated with Cain, the first murderer (Genesis 4:9).
the title of the painting is "A Redenção de Cam" - "Ham's Redemption" according to wikipedia. where's the reference to cain?
 
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