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The Making of Southeast Asian Culture and Society

  • SUVANNABHUMI
  • Abbr : SVN
  • 2009, 1(1), pp.1-25
  • DOI : 10.22801/svn.2009.1.1.1
  • Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Southeast Asia
  • Received : April 15, 2009
  • Accepted : May 17, 2009
  • Published : June 30, 2009

Hungguk Cho 1

1부산대학교

ABSTRACT

The diversity of Southeast Asian culture and society has ben made by two factors: geopolitcal environment and colonialism. The geopolitcal positon of the region betwen China Seas and Indian Ocean has made it posible that diverse cultures from Northeast Asia especialy China and India, Middle East and Europe have flowed into the region. The fact that Southeast Asia was colonized by various European nations has provided additonal diversity. The diversity manifests itself most clearly in the culture of Southeast Asia which has various layers: On the botom lay the indigenous one, and above it Chinese and Indian and Islamic cultures and finaly European one.

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