It might have been a unifying language, or at least take the role of English in modern Philippines.
Filipino was made (in a super simplified summary) because Manuel Quezon and his cabinet wanted to reduce communication differences between the regions, except that kinda became a Tagalog...
It’s not so difficult to keep Chavacano (a hybrid of Spanish and Filipino) alive and with more dialects. It would just need a less active occupation or a less genocidal occupation from the Americans and Japanese.
Chavacano still exists in Zamboanga, around the southwest tip of the Philippines...
I'm still in the early 40's and I like the cultural changes so far. I'm not an expert in the media industry, especially that era, but it's an interesting read so far especially when I was raised with a lot of older Disney animated films as a kid.
I just came from an AWOLAWOT to Oceans divide reading spree over the weekend and now I see this timeline. I’ll be reading part 1 in a long spree and catch up with this.
I wonder how this Alt-alt Disney timeline would be compared to the previous one I just binged
Too much plot armor around the stevens brothers and Margo also soured things for me.
A lot of problems wouldn’t happen if Plot Induced Stupidity didn’t happen
This should go along with colonies in the Americas and remnants in China.
Isn't this portion of Africa hard to live in with all the malaria and other diseases?
This looks nice, are you going for the biblical Israel though? Because other people don't usually consider that state plausible at least without a lot of major changes
Great update
It's a shame that a lot of my favorite timelines are getting locked due to thread length but it's a sign of its popularity that it even reached that long
Cheers to a couple more locked (due to length) threads
Another great update!
I think the situation the ERE has now is basically the problem of staying on top when the rest of the world is catching up, it's being nibbled everywhere because it's hard to maintain everything.
Though i hope they somehow manage to expand after this and end the war...