There is a theory (which at the moment is falling out fashion) which speaks of ice age Europeans contributing a lot to the makeup of the Native Americans.
That as well as people coming over the land bridge from Asia, people who lived along the edge of the ice sheet also made the trip over.
This is a bit of a borderline ASB one and its differences won't be the grand scale stuff that is usually popular, but still, I ponder:
What if the ancestry of Native Americans was primarily caucasian and not east asian?
Assume their development is still pretty much the same; a few civilizations here and there, lots of hunter-gatherers, some small scale farmers, etc...
And lets keep a nice butterfly net in place.
How could views develop differently?
IOTL of course racism mostly came about because of colonialism, not vice-versa. So the early days would probably look the same. But I wonder when we get towards more modern times and pseudo-scientific outlooks on racism how different things would be.
That as well as people coming over the land bridge from Asia, people who lived along the edge of the ice sheet also made the trip over.
This is a bit of a borderline ASB one and its differences won't be the grand scale stuff that is usually popular, but still, I ponder:
What if the ancestry of Native Americans was primarily caucasian and not east asian?
Assume their development is still pretty much the same; a few civilizations here and there, lots of hunter-gatherers, some small scale farmers, etc...
And lets keep a nice butterfly net in place.
How could views develop differently?
IOTL of course racism mostly came about because of colonialism, not vice-versa. So the early days would probably look the same. But I wonder when we get towards more modern times and pseudo-scientific outlooks on racism how different things would be.