WI Siam gets all of laos?

What if Siam conquered all of Laos and the french keep their indochina in Vietnam and cambodia? Could the the people of otl Laos be assimilated like the Isan people? Could this put more ethnic pressure on Thailand once modernization and nationalism get there?
 
What if Siam conquered all of Laos and the french keep their indochina in Vietnam and cambodia? Could the the people of otl Laos be assimilated like the Isan people? Could this put more ethnic pressure on Thailand once modernization and nationalism get there?
Very hard to assimilate Laos, it's extremely mountainous and covered in jungle, plus it's full of statelets that were used as buffer states of varying allegiances. Even the French had VERY limited presence there.
Now you could probably get a nominally Thai Laos, I think it's mostly how it was before 1893
 
Very hard to assimilate Laos, it's extremely mountainous and covered in jungle, plus it's full of statelets that were used as buffer states of varying allegiances. Even the French had VERY limited presence there.
Now you could probably get a nominally Thai Laos, I think it's mostly how it was before 1893
So it is imposible to assimilate them like the Isan? Would they be like other ethnic minorities like in northern Thailand? Or would they have a dual identitiy (thai by citizenship but not ethnicity)?
 
So it is imposible to assimilate them like the Isan? Would they be like other ethnic minorities like in northern Thailand? Or would they have a dual identitiy (thai by citizenship but not ethnicity)?
Not a specialist on Laos or Thailand I'm afraid ...
All I know is while Vietnam was very happy to colonise and assimilate Cochinchina, Laos statelets were always left as buffer protectorates
 
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