As is well-known, if you convert a pagan province, its culture changes to match that of the country doing the converting. This is more often than not wrong: if things really worked like this, modern Nigerians would be British, parts of Indonesia would be Arab, and so on. Colonial rulers certainly had a great deal of influence on traditional culture in these places, but not so much as to assimilate them, and while you got a thin layer of European administrators and settlers ruling over the natives, they wouldn't be numerous enough to count as defining the province culture.
Accordingly, in some areas we should have events putting the culture back to what it should be, specifically:
- Pagan Lithuania (this is going to look really silly otherwise if we give the TO Low German as primary culture!)
- Maya lands
- Mexico
- Andean states
- Africa
- Any Pagan states we put in the Malay archipelago
However, we might decide it's fair to give the converter the local culture as a secondary culture in some cases, at a certain cost. So it's possible that a European power will get Maya as a secondary culture, for instance, representing the fact that the Maya have been somewhat Andalusified, Italianised or whatever. But they're unlikely to completely eradicate Maya culture. If they do, that deserves to be documented in a separate event, where not wiping out the natives is also an option. Where we decide the coloniser doesn't deserve right-culture, this will also have the consequence of reducing Europeans' ability to recruit troops and raise taxes in these places, which I think is a good thing.
Accordingly, in some areas we should have events putting the culture back to what it should be, specifically:
- Pagan Lithuania (this is going to look really silly otherwise if we give the TO Low German as primary culture!)
- Maya lands
- Mexico
- Andean states
- Africa
- Any Pagan states we put in the Malay archipelago
However, we might decide it's fair to give the converter the local culture as a secondary culture in some cases, at a certain cost. So it's possible that a European power will get Maya as a secondary culture, for instance, representing the fact that the Maya have been somewhat Andalusified, Italianised or whatever. But they're unlikely to completely eradicate Maya culture. If they do, that deserves to be documented in a separate event, where not wiping out the natives is also an option. Where we decide the coloniser doesn't deserve right-culture, this will also have the consequence of reducing Europeans' ability to recruit troops and raise taxes in these places, which I think is a good thing.
