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You're assuming perfect assimilation happens. Otherwise you simply have a colony. If the colony outstrips the natives, they change the culture and eventually th
by netbioserror 1y ago
You're assuming perfect assimilation happens. Otherwise you simply have a colony. If the colony outstrips the natives, they change the culture and eventually the governance of a place by right of conquest. Then they can change names and there's no denying it.
States encompass territory, but nations are defined by their people and culture.
- squigz 1y ago"Perfect assimilation" doesn't seem like something that actually happens in reality.
- ahoka 1y agoYou might want to read up on Quebec.
- rayiner 1y agoThey don’t even need to achieve a majority. Look at New York City or urban New Jersey. You think those places are the same as they would have been had they remained British and Dutch?
- nyeah 1y agoIt's been a ... little while since NYC was Dutch. Let me put my tricornered hat on and think carefully.