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If possible could we get an official count? It seems that every country including mine has a Khaiwoonese diaspora and I think we might eventually need to explain why the Khaiwoonese diaspora is most likely many times larger than the actual population. Is Khaiwoon like Ireland/ England in having very large worldwide diasporas due to movement of people outside of Khaiwoon. Maybe when Khaiwoon was the focal point of trading in this hemisphere many people moved from Khaiwoon too other places.’I can reduce my diaspora but currently my numbers are 50,000 in Hoppon mostly due to Proximity and a similar vague SE Asian culture. 700,000 in Lallemand, this is entirely due to Lallemand being extremely close by and centuries of Khaiwoonese traders getting goods from Lallemand as only Gobrassanya and maybe 1 or 2 other nations are closer to Khaiwoon. Most of the Khaiwoonese here are of mixed heritage and similar to the African Americans were the average AA is 20% European or Japanese Brazilians that have a completely different culture or Japanese Americans were at least 50% of the population is marrying out. Any thoughts? I plan on reducing the population for Lallemand so their should be under half a million Khaiwoonese when I am done. But what about the other dozen natiosn with Khaiwoonese Diasporas how many are they? Do they number more than Khaiwoon? Is there a possible way we could incorporate them into Khaiwoon’s history? Because Khaiwoon is the most or one of the most advanced countries map wise and history wise many nations look to Khaiwoon and so the Khaiwoonese diaspora is worldwide.
Discussion
Comment from isleño on 28 January 2016 at 00:12
Thanks for posting this, Portopolis. Khaiwoon was (and is) certainly a major focal point for trade, and historically the Khaiwoonese were prosperous sea traders who would have settled in port cities throughout the northern Asperic region for purposes of commerce.
Khaiwoon is a small country, so initially these settlements would have been small (not independent settlements… more like neighborhoods within pre-existing cities) but there’s no reason why they couldn’t have grown into much larger populations over many decades, especially with intermarriage. So I don’t see any problem with very large Khaiwoonese populations, and indeed the total Khaiwoonese diaspora may add up to be even larger than the population of Khaiwoon itself.
So really, you can make up just about any numbers you like, whatever works for you. I’ll set up a wiki page for “Khaiwoonese diaspora” or something where we can assemble a table of how many live where.
As a reminder, for anyone wanting to use some Khaiwoonese names, the Khaiwoonese name generator is a very useful tool.
Happy mapping!