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What do you think america would be like if the french or Dutch won the land?

Positive answers only. I think the urban areas would be castles, towers, (french architecture) and bright modern buildings, and the suburban areas would be more like Mansions, and townhouses

Public Comments

1. We'd have universal, single payer health care.
2. It would be like Quebec.
3. It would have a lot less White people, and the Manifest Destiny would not have happened, since the French and the Dutch colonies were mostly trading colonies and not really settler colonies. In fact, during the French and Indian War, there were only something like 70,000 Frenchmen living in North America, as opposed to something like 2 million Englishmen. There were even less Dutchmen. So if the French or Dutch had won the war (whatever that war is) and restricted the immigration of those rabbit-breeding Englishmen, the Dutch would probably run their part of America the way they ran Indonesia, in other words, where the natives retained their culture and in the end, the Dutch would leave, leaving behind a vibrant native country or countries. The French would collaborate with the Indians more, and in the end, you might have a hybrid people that is more egalitarian than Latin America, since the Spaniards, as the undisputed conquerors of the land, could dictate policy without any resistance.