How would the United States be if instead of British it had been colonized by Germans or Dutch?

[The Lawspeaker]

I wouldn´t say plenty, Netherlands has a ridiculous size in the world countries context. Ridiculous (in general all european countries have ridiculous sizes, Europe is only 3% of the world emerged surface; I learnt this when I discovered that Spain had the same size as an very small and irrelevant ex-colony as Paraguay, to do not mention bigger countries)

If we are talking about the portion of a ridiculous sized country it´s even worse.

Actually - from a Dutch perspective it was a massive amount of land. Apart from some minor areas - much of Drenthe, Brabant of the States and Overijssel (indeed: much of Central Guelders) were barely settled. It was just forest, swampy peatlands and moorland - and the occasional small farming community here and there. At the time, Drenthe had 20.000 inhabitants and was so poor that it didn't have its representatives in the States-General, didn't need to pay taxes and had de-facto home rule. It would take until the 19th century until the moors and forests would finally be cleared and the swamps cleared. With the Republic, as a whole, only having 1 to 1.5 million inhabitants ? Why should the Dutch have cared about America ?

[Smitty]

Depending on what areas we compare, an Afrikaner vs. American White from the north should have the same amount of non-white ancestry.

Afrikaners are certainly whiter than Latin American whites. But they score more non-European than U.S. whites, even those from the South. Here is one example from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/com...r_dna_results/

This guy is a bit above average, I think, but almost all Afrikaners score around 2% non-European.

[Nordarya]

Afrikaners are certainly whiter than Latin American whites. But they score more non-European than U.S. whites, even those from the South. Here is one example from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/com...r_dna_results/

This guy is a bit above average, I think, but almost all Afrikaners score around 2% non-European.

The question should not be answered with how much Mongoloid DNA, but how much Negroid DNA makes one non-Caucasoid. Eurasian genetics overlap too much already in the Old World, so it shouldn't be somehow special in the New World. Simply put, Caucasoid and Mongoloid are equally non-Negroid, only one is more Neanderthal and the other is more Denisovan.

[Ruggery]

Afrikaners are certainly whiter than Latin American whites. But they score more non-European than U.S. whites, even those from the South. Here is one example from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/com...r_dna_results/

This guy is a bit above average, I think, but almost all Afrikaners score around 2% non-European.

That same percentage has some White Americans but from Jews.