@Ted Phillips it is in the maintained version: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2952980917 :D

Could the german culture color be chaned to black?

@Update: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2952980917 here is the link to the version of the mod. It includes the optional cultures option I talked about and all the remaining planned cultures. The modifier now also gives a hefty nerf if the pop in question is discriminated.

Will probably rerlease the mod under a new name as the scope has changed and the update will break all current saves...

Think im almost done with the automation. Have to do a couple of more tests and add the remaining cultures. Currently it looks like this for example in the case of Scandinavia. You accept the decision, that triggers 2 additional events that let you opt in for Sami and Finnish respectively. So if you dont want them they get completely ignored by the rest of the events, journals etc.
All I have to do now is fill in a json and edit some name lists :D - > For example
{
"syncreticCultureName": "modern_spanish",
"baseCultures": ["spanish", "catalan"],
"formabilityCriteria": "ANY",
"optionalCultures": ["basque", "galician"],
"mutuallyExclusiveWith": ["iberian"],
"localization": "Modern Spanish",
"color": "rgb{ 250 189 0 }",
"religion": "catholic",
"traits": "iberian_culture_group hispanophone european_heritage",
"obsessions": "wine",
"graphics": "european",
"ethnicity": "caucasian"
}

Ah, that makes sense then, thank you.

@☭ Atomic ☭ none of them appear ingame without player action. Only a human player can unlock them which means you wont see any of the combinations you dont like :)

I feel like you're doing a bit too much. Merging US, Italian and German cultures is reasonable (and IMO they should've been one culture in vanilla from the very beginning) but Chinese? Rus? Scandinavian? Spanish? British? They have so little in common and would never in a million years adopt a single identity. Maybe add an option to only make the US, Italian and German cultures mergeable? Like a gamerule or a separate version of the mod?

@Update
Rus: Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian
Scandinavian: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandici and Finnish
Modern Spanish: Spanish, Catalonian, Basque and Galician
Have been added

Think I will pause adding more cultures after the update this evening and focus on better mechanics first, maybe I can automate the process a bit because its already getting kinda tedious...

@Başbuğ Stannis is that Turkish, Azerbaijani, Tatar and Tuvan?
@AlphaQmaster there will be a separate one for Finnish ones. I have yet to implement a system that makes more questionable parts optional but thats the plan. First come the broad ones.

add turkic

For cultural divides that are really fiercely entrenched, like Anglo and French Canadian, assimilation should have to be done so through fierce resistance, like a journal entry that has stringent requirements to succeed and if you fail, one of the cultures launches an independence war, as you would essentially be fully mending the discrimination and divides that exist between the people; you would have to have a good public education system (you need to teach ALL of English Canada French and all of French Canada English), likely cultural exclusion or national supremacy (French Canadian nationalism), and maybe adding a certain amount of event triggers (requiring the addition of French-Canadian homelands, promoting the interests of interest groups with their biggest bases in those cultural provinces, solving disputes between the two cultures, etc.)

also finns speak another language group

why finnish is includede inside Scandinavian? finns should have their own group with estonians, karelians and etc.

@Catgirl Odorosa[MO07] ty :). Porto-Brazilian sounds good to me. Yeah not all of the cultures that will be in this mod are believable. Thats why they all require the human player to unlock em. Its not like they will pop up on their own in their game unless the player decides they should. They will also be mutually exclusive for the stranger ones, like you wont be able to unite the British and then go on and form the "global" english.

to unite Portuguese and Brazilian culture? I guess only naming it Porto-Brazilian or Luso-Brazilian (as this is as absurd as uniting English and American culture)

@Catgirl Odorosa[MO07]
I will add that under Modern Brazilian. What Im looking for is a name to fill that gap of Brazilian, Portuguese and Galician because I have friends that would like to join Brazil with Portugal and have requested a syncretic culture for that

I'd say for the Brazilian culture integrate Afro Brazilian and Amazonian into Brazilian maybe the afro-brazilians after slavery ended

@Staunch Oh I wasnt sure to inclue them or not, imma remove em again
@Catgirl Odorosa[MO07] noted, so Luso or modern Portuguese will just be Portuguese and Galician. Since I know people that asked for one with brazil I will do that separately, which name would be suitable for that (you will be able to pick between the two ingame then so you can choose)

It doesnt make sense to include sami and finnish in the scandinavian culture as linguistically they arent even indo-european even if finnish has a lot of swedish loan words.

Okay the Luso idea is terrible do not include Brazilian culture with portuguese one.

I like Rus' for the name, its more evocative and immersive than East Slavic

@Blackback already got those combinations on the planned list, I will take some name inspiration from you tho. As for the east Slavs I got "Rus" as the name currently.

Some ideas for you: "anglosphere" for all countries that speak english.
Russophone for all the East Slavs.
Latino for the New World Latin cultures
Hispanic for spanish-speakers worldwide

@Update
@New Mechanics:
Journals are locked behind a decision for each country, which can only be unlocked by a human player (switch countries shortly if you want to enable it for an ai country)
@New/Updated cultures:
Italian: North/South Italian, Corsican and Maltese
German: North/South German and Swiss
Chinese: Manchu, Han, Hakka, Min and Yue
US American: Yankee and Dixie
British: English, Scottish, Irish
Standard French: Briton, French, Walloon and Occitaine
@Other:
Changed a couple of culture colors to be more in line with for example french Blue or the British red

@Ted Phillips good idea, i will see how it looks :D

maybe change the colour of the german culture from green to black? Nice mod either way.

Ive added Chinese and US American as cultures.

All cultures now need to be unlocked by a human player in the decision section for the countries that match a culture combination. So if you just want Italy and Germany to have these new cultures but for example not the US you can just unlock it via switch country before playing.

@Wuzze yeah, the new scope is to get as many cultures as possible.

While it should not break any saves I will wait with the update until the 22nd to be sure.

might as well do a unified culture for all culture groups, do you have the patience for that?

Yeah I will lock all new culture journals behind a decision you can only unlock as the player. So if you want to see a new culture emerge in a country you dont play you will have to switch country and unlock it for them before you switch back. That way every one can use the cultures they deem fit or none at all within a playthrough.

@zakuro I will look into it. Will lock them probably behind player choice only though :D

North and south Chinese please,, all british cultures too