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Understand Asia as a continent/cultures. | ||
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| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5227 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 17 of 21 30 December 2011 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not to offend, but that seems to be more a consequence of an outsider's ignorance than an intrinsic truth. The Philippines and Indonesia share more in common, in terms of social norms, with Latin America than Japan or Korea. I've posted this once before, and I remember someone on this forum was "deeply offended" by it, but I think it's relevant and bears reposting: 
Well, there ya go. It's already been quantified and measured. Gotta love science. It ought to go without saying, but notice how countries from different continents are dispersed amongst each other. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Thor1987 Groupie Canada Joined 4546 days ago 65 posts - 84 votes Studies: German | Message 18 of 21 31 December 2011 at 4:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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Nice graph but it leaves many other componets like ethnicity and language.
Second my best friends wife/very friendly in laws are cebuano speakers from the philopines, so i think I got a grasp on the culture. But keep in mind that malaysia blends with indonesia and indochine,which spans to china. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5227 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 19 of 21 31 December 2011 at 5:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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^ Not sure what you mean by either of those two points.
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| Thor1987 Groupie Canada Joined 4546 days ago 65 posts - 84 votes Studies: German | Message 20 of 21 31 December 2011 at 5:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have a pretty solid understanding of the phillipines, but I do understand from what
I've heard from my malay/indonesian/singporean friend that malayasia has alot in common with vietnam/china/indonesia. The first point was that the graph looks pretty good, but it's leaving out several cultural aspects, such as language. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5227 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 21 of 21 31 December 2011 at 5:42am | IP Logged | |||||
Malaysia is roughly half Chinese and half Malay. It goes without saying (or rather, ought to) that Malaysian Malays will share many cultural similarities with Indonesians (and to a lesser extent, Filipinos), while Malaysian Chinese will share many cultural similarities with Singaporeans and Chinese. Many Chinese would consider Vietnamese culture completely different from Chinese culture (generally for the worse, but I digress).
Language isn't an intrinsic cultural aspect. At its roots, it's merely a collection of vocabulary and grammar. Only on an indirect level does it affect culture by bridging or isolating a community to and from other communities (e.g., Filipinos, being Anglophones, are often exposed to American culture, whereas Vietnamese generally aren't). But this survey side-stepped superficial aspects like language and ethnicity and cut to the core values of the world's communities (thus its name). Edited by nway on 31 December 2011 at 5:43am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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