What if...taxation with representation?

Again lets speculate, what if the french had claimed or fought for possession of Australie, would we be speaking French? would the French dealt differently with the Aborigines?

 

Probably not. The big issue was taxation without representation. In fact, the 1770's colonial residents considered themselves truly English. The story of Paul Revere yelling "the British are coming" is a myth, since the colinials referred to themselves as British. He likely said "the regulars are coming ('regular' is a name for the royal infantry) or the redcoats are coming(referring to the color of the uniforms).

I think the the Lousiana purchase terrirories would either have become independent, or they would have remained in the hands of France.

It depends. It's been speculated that the formation of the USA sparked the decline in the British empire, resulting in the independence of several nations. Presuming that to be correct, we could assume that the United Colinies of America and Canada would have parliamentary representation. So would the colonies of India and Israel, presumably, as well as others.

Sans the US, a lot of things would be different. Communism might not have fallen. The attack on Pearl Harbor might not have been, and, who knows, Germany might have won WW2. China might be a Japanese colony, Alaska might be a Russian or Canadian territory, and the soviet union might not have fallen. Vietnam would be different, as would Korea, Iran, Columbia, etc. Texas, Arizona, and California might be Mexian terrorities, or they might be independent nations. Or, for that matter, maybe Spain would still own Mexico, California, Texas, et al as part of THEIR empire. The Netherlands, too, might still have empirical control over Indonesia, South Africa, and their other former colonies. Brazil might still belong to Portugal. We'd never have been given the Statue of Liberty, and Mickey Mouse might have been named Topolino instead.

 

Not as we know it. The word "Hollywood" came from the name of a residential development (called holly woodland) in the region. In fact, Hollywood isn't a city. It's a community within the City of Los Angeles. Many of the studios which have a Hollywood address aren't even in Hollywood, but are in nearby cities such as Burbank.

The word Hollywood today has simply become a synonym for the film and/or television industry. A large chunk of this industry doesn't even take place in Southern California. If fact, there's a major push by the locals to encourage the movie industry to use the LA/OC area as much as possible in filmmaking, because of lost jobs. We forget about the hundreds of thousands of jobs like lighting and sound techs, set construction workers, electricians, artisans, prop masters, not to mention the clerical and administrative staff. These folks make anywhere from 20,000 to 60,000 a year, and depend on the industry staying here for their livelihood. Alas, the soaring land prices in the area have made it difficult to compete, and many production facilities are now headquartered on the east coast or Canada.

But would we have a film industry? Probably. The industry was actually imported from European immigrants during the silent era. It was here that the art of filmmaking was made popular.