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Southeast Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2787 words) |
 | While Southeast Asia is rich in flora and fauna, Southeast Asia is facing severe deforestation which causes habitat loss for various endangered species such as orangutan and the Sumatran tiger. |
| Southeast Asia has experienced great economic growth since the 1980s; Singapore was one of the four original "East Asian Tigers" and in recent years Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand have often been considered a new brood of "tigers". |
| The peoples of Southeast Asia were trained to carry burdens on their heads; it was a common sight to see a child balancing a small object like a bowl on her head, in distinction to her mother or aunt balancing a much larger load. |
| 2. Southeast Asia. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History (886 words) |
| This period witnessed an increase in the importance of what had been a persistent feature of Southeast Asian society because of the needs of the colonial powers: since many of the commercial and trading functions were in the hands of foreigners, the diaspora of Chinese and Indians into Southeast Asia grew rapidly. |
| In the early decades of the 20th century the Chinese were politicized by events in mainland China which strengthened a sense of internal Chinese cohesion and distinctiveness and prevented further assimilation into the indigenous Southeast Asian cultures. |
| This in turn prompted suspicion and hostility on the part of the indigenous Southeast Asian populations, with long-term ramifications for developments in the region in the face of nationalist demands for independence. |
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