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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON SOUTHEAST ASIA: CONTEMPORARY POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT IN
SOUTHEAST ASIA 11:00AM – 11:50AM, AUGUST 10, 2013
SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOLTEXAS ALLIANCE FOR GEOGRAPHIC EDUCATION
Political Science, Ph.D.Journalism and Mass Communication, Ph.D.
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Political Science
Texas State University
Through the Eyes of Others
Crossroads of the World
The Roots of Contemporary Politics
Common Experience (Political & Non-Political)
Heavy Borrowing (Lacks definite borders)
-External and inter-regional influence
-Economic development
Diversity
-Ethnicities
-Languages
-Religions
The Outputs of Contemporary Politics:
Common Political ExperienceWestern Colonialism
(Anti-Imperial) Nationalism for independence
Cold War trauma
-Japanese occupation & Superpower rivalry
-Internal ideological struggle
-Interstate conflict
-> Border Disputes
-> Constant Communist and Anti-Communist Movement
-> Genocide
The Outputs of Contemporary
Politics: Common Non-Political Experience
Arrival and expansion of non-native religions (12th -17th)
Western ideas of Modernity (16th-20th)
-Civilization
-Capitalism
-Democracy
Economic transition (1980~)
-International labor market
-Rapid economic growth
-China
-> Politically more vulnerable to international market.
The Outputs of Contemporary Politics:
People and Language Hundreds of minority groups / National and local languages
Negative stereotypes against different ethnicities
Less educated
Strong sense of the village
-agricultural village as the unit of identity
-family farm
-patron-client ties
-> Nutritious condition for isolated/ corrupted/ dictator-friendly/ communism-centered political systems
The Outputs of Contemporary Politics:
Religions Religious Values
-Buddhist culture
-Islamic culture
-Animistic culture
-Confucianist culture
-> Hierarchical political systems
No Ways
Border issues
Ethnic cleansing/ Genocide
Human Right
Poverty
Common issues, but different paths
In the Minds of Others
- Tragedy, Violence, Exploitation
- Less frequency
- More in-depth commentaries
- Battleground -> Marketplace
- More complex and sensational
- Stereotypical images
Ways
Infrastructure Investment -> Intra- and Inter-regional trade and economy
Separation between religions, business, and politics
Asian Values
-Harmony
-Consensus
-Hierarchy
-Communitarianism