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--- alternate_history:nothing_ever_happens_in_south_america [2018/09/16 07:06] – [Timelines trying to avert this cliché] petike
+++ alternate_history:nothing_ever_happens_in_south_america [2018/10/13 19:34] – [Timelines trying to avert this cliché] max_sinister
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 For some reason or other, works in the genre of alternate history - outside those written by actual South American authors - often don't bother to include even a passing mention of what's been going on in South America ever since the timeline diverged from our history. If South America is ever mentioned, a few events regarding the Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires (or their downfall) might get referenced... And that's pretty much it.
-Of course, not every timeline has to include South America (or most of the world's continents and geographical areas) by default. Some TLs have a deliberately narrower scope, so they can focus more on events in a specific region or country, while only briefly mentioning the bigger picture. That is excusable. But if a timeline generally strives to show the global picture as much as possible, the ommission or trivialization of South America in world affairs can be really jarring as the years go by. Often, if very little attention is paid to South America in a timeline, its status may end up as one giant [[Citroen DS Incident]]. South America just seems to get the short end of the stick far too often...
+Of course, not every timeline has to include South America (or most of the world's continents and geographical areas) by default. Some TLs have a deliberately narrower scope, so they can focus more on events in a specific region or country, while only briefly mentioning the bigger picture. That is excusable. But if a timeline generally strives to show the global picture as much as possible, the omission or trivialization of South America in world affairs can be really jarring as the years go by. Often, if very little attention is paid to South America in a timeline, its status may end up as one giant [[Citroen DS Incident]]. South America just seems to get the short end of the stick far too often...
 Though this problem is most pervasive in the case of this continent, it can also be applied to Africa (nearly as often, especially the little attention paid to some parts of the continent), Oceania (nearly non-existant in timelines that are not set in [[offtopic:Australia]] and [[offtopic:New Zealand]]), the Caribbean (nearly no significance in TLs) and parts of Asia (indeed, some are harder to research and write about, but even many of the easily researched ones seldom make appearances).
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 [[offtopic:ScorchedLight]]'s [[ASB]] [[stories:stories|story series]] //**[[stories:The Failure]]**// is set in his native [[offtopic:Chile]].
+In [[offtopic:Jared]]'s //**[[timelines:Decades of Darkness]]**//, something is definitely happening there... as in, the *US meddles in a Brazilian Civil War between monarchists/slaveholders and republicans/slavery opponents (and so does Germany, on the other side) and later expands until they reach down to Tierra del Fuego. Even later, they split up Brazil into three parts... yeah, just because the cliche is avoided, South America isn't necessarily better off.
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