Colonial culture

[VincentX]

Instead of culture in a colonial province switching to that of the colonizer, it would be cool seeing it switch to a colonial version of it, based on the home culture but separate from it. Needs programming for a new dynamic system though, I suspect.

So if, for example, as a Dutch colonizer I colonize 'New Amsterdam', the culture of the province would not be 'Dutch' but instead 'Colonial Dutch'. Same for any other nation and culture.

Advantages (well, those I can think of, anyway):
- all colonial culture could possibly be in one cultural group, separate from the colonizer's culture group, making culture acceptance less of a problem in colonial nations expanding through conquest of other colonial nations (the idea here is that colonials have more in common with each other than with their old countries back in Europe anyway, due to proximity and similar conditions)
- adds the possibility to convert culture in the colonies, since there is no primary tag prohibiting it
- basing tag switches on a different parameter than being a 'former colonial nation'
- possible colonial culture events, perhaps even per colonial culture? For example: some events fire for 'Colonial English' but not for 'Colonial Castillian' and vice versa. For example 'encomienda events' that fire only if your nation has 'Colonial Castillian' as primary culture.
- ... it looks nice?

 

[BrokenSky]

Like American can form out of English? But for other cultures? Sounds good : ).

Might change the names of a few historical ones though. Put them all in the Colonial America group of something?

 

[VincentX]

Like American can form out of English? But for other cultures? Sounds good : ).

Might change the names of a few historical ones though. Put them all in the Colonial America group of something?

I guess it could do away with American as a culture entirely, instead replacing it with a Colonial Culture group, which consist of all the dynamically created colonial cultures. So then when a nation is formed out of a former colonial nation (USA, Canada, Mexico, etc), it gets the Colonial Culture union, allowing it to expand without drawbacks due to cultures being stuck in the group of their colonizing nation.

 

[Heinrikr]

Putting all colonial cultures in one group wouldn't be very good, since e.g. americans don't have much in common with e.g. brazilians, and in any case they certainly have more in common with the brits. I am of the opinion that colonial cultures are unnecessary (including US american) because there weren't really any such siginificant cultural differences to justify it. The americans for example, up until 1820, were just rebellious englishmen. An englishman would not feel himself a foreigner if in the USA, nor would an american have any difficulty in England. There were differences of course, but they were minor, and they were of the sort that exists everywhere, on a province level. But we can't have every province be its own culture.

 

[megaspider01]

I made a suggestion a few weeks ago suggesting that every culture group has it's own colonial culture.

Edit: Here it is https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/culture-in-america

 

[Basileios Makedon]

I made a suggestion a few weeks ago suggesting that every culture group has it's own colonial culture.

Edit: Here it is https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/culture-in-america

Oh yeah I remember it!