How is this being upvoted? Culture conversion absolutely existed. Check Islamic Iberia, the Arabs and Berbers were a minority and the culture of Al-Andalus was still heavily arabized. Welsh culture was heavily anglicised without population replacement. North African culture was heavily arabized without population replacement.
Slovenes 1300 years under German control and we still exit xD
No, there were strong cases of cultural assimilation and gradual colonisation. Turks never slaughtered entire population of Constantinople, but after a few decades it was a Turkish-Greek city. Poles never slaughtered Lithuanians and Ukrainians, yet after some time you had big Polish speaking populations in those large eastern areas of commonwealth. Maybe 20 years is way too fast indeed, but for 80 or a century seems quite plausible, provided there is strong effort, good modifiers, etc.
Constantinople was really just repopulation iirc. The city was really depopulated when it was taken, and Turks brought in a ton of migrants.
This is true that large greek minorities survived in large areas of what is now Turkey. It is also true that when Seljuks invaded Anatolia, they culturally assimilated large part of Greek speaking population in its inner parts in few decades. Cultural conversion is a very complex problem. Perhaps it should be more difficult than it is now, but should be doable.
This is largely true, although some greeks survived, and many immigrated there again alongside Turks. Anyway, it happened in a few decades. How would you then portray it in game, if not through cultural conversion mechanics? If it has a system like in Victoria 3 where you can change culture of a region mostly through directed migration, I would be fine with that.
With the in game pop movement? I guess if not handled by event, the province would have high carrying capacity, and the state encouraged migration to it and invested in the city.
By migration mechanic, obviously. I'd assume there was no conversion at all except maybe few people, but mostly drawing population (of any ethnicity) into the new seat of the sultan.
"Did Irish convert to English" - no and yes. The determining factor for maintaining Irish identity was more Catholicism and less language or heritage. See Yola, Fingallian, and English colonists who are English in origin yet blended into Irish identity by speaking the same Hiberno-English and being Catholic.
or how acceptance works, maybe it could changed that the culture needs to have a positive opinion before it can be accepted.
No, there were many conversions too. When Turks arrived in Anatolia, it was maybe 100k among 7 milion population. Obviously many people assimilated over time.
You don't have to. I want it to be slow and difficult to get cores just as I want conversions to be slow and difficult.
Certainly population replacement did occur, specially in the Americas, as a way to "culture convert" a region.
Anthropologists even have a term for this, which is "ethnocide", which implies the destruction of the culture of a group of people without physically eliminating them, at which point we would be using the term "genocide" instead. It was done in an active manner by banning cultural local expressions such as language, religion, celebrations, art, etc. or simply by favouring the language, religion, culture, etc. of the ruling class or the capital city.
