Please don’t take this in an offensive way. If you’re offended I’m sorry. But every video I see on instagram and YouTube, it’s on China and it’s always glorifying China and its cities (yes they are beautiful) but it’s always like “China is ahead of US and Europe” or “US and Europe are behind China” yet Europe and US are way ahead of China in terms of GDP, GDP per capita and HDI. Not to mention, a lot of Chinese look to move out of China just like how Indians want to move out of India and they both settle in these “Countries behind China”. Why is this?

Would be interesting to hear what peoples views were back then. I get the impression that there's a blank state for most non-Koreans as there was no to little English-language information available, while the Korean government was disinterested in cultural exchange with the rest of the world, as modernization was more important.

Like name 5 countries or civilization

Here in Iraq, We have pro-Palestinian rallies every and everyone is boycotting for Palestine, is it the same thing in your country?

:/

There are some shows and movies from Korean and japan that are wildly popular in America and Europe. Yet how come we don't get that from China if China is more advanced?

Edit: India and Thailand also has media power, I forgot there's a couple of shows/movies they have that popular in America/Europe

Is it the climate of the other countries or the landscape?

International travelers of this subreddit, which country did you visit had the nicest people you met? Qualities like kindness, helpfulness, and politeness. Where did you notice it the most? Any interesting stories that demonstrate this niceness?

Is Korea envious of Chinese culture? What are their intentions?

Why would they call and introduce other people's culture as their own after destroying all of their cultures?

Like ancient history

Specially in topics such as LGBT rights, women's rights etc

Hello, American here. I'm creating a christmas around the world music playlist to learn more about the world and it's cultures. Now I know Christmas is a bit more recent to the Asian contient, so it would interesting to see how the songs were created since christmas.

So my questions are what christmas songs are cultural significance to your country/local culture, you feel is underrated or you just really like?

The four tigers refers to the four economies that experienced rapid growth in the 1960s and 1970s:

South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

I know that China wasn’t included because it didn’t liberalize until Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978 so it didn’t take off until the 90s and 2000s but Japan grew rapidly in the Cold War Era so why wasn’t it considered an Asian Tiger?

South Asia has historically had a far greater cultural impact on SEA and by the colonial period, both South Asia and South East Asia were under colonial powers with the former's population often being used as indentured labourers in colonial territories with lesser population. A few educated Indians also went to these colonies as merchantile communities and lower level bureaucrats and as a result many East Africa, Pacific and Caribbean nations have a very prominent Indian diaspora. A prominent Indian diaspora exists in South East Asia too especially Malaysia and Singapore. However they are outnumbered by the Chinese living in those countries. Only a few ports of China were under the control of European powers and yet countries like Malaysia and Indonesia has a far larger Chinese population than an Indian population. What could be the reason behind it?

Give a description to the different cities of your country, what are the best attributes about them and what are the least best?

Hi there, I always wondered as Indonesia is the most Muslim country in the world and its majority Muslim, yet it still teaches Indian Hindu folklore and has Balinese dances and plays that reflect Hinduism and has many buddhist aspects too

But in Bangladesh and Pakistan they are usually conservative and would get potentially punished for doing these as Muslim, why is this?

A week or so back, I saw someone wearing a very unique 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' t-shirt (the one with the banana). It goes to show that the type of people who are into this subculture, especially here in Asia, is a lot more prevalent than meets the eye. The thing I love about living in Asia is the abundance of meeting spaces. I know for a fact that in countries like Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, and most of Europe, there are hangout places where you can do meetups with people whom you share similar interests with, like say you decided to do a meetup via a Facebook group or page. However, in the case of Taiwan, Hong Kong, or China, such opportunities are incredibly limited and very rare. This is largely because the vast majority of people do not socialize or open up to those outside their known circles. In the United States, it's a different challenge; the country is so huge, and everything is so spread out that it becomes hard to gather people who share similar interests.

So, my question is: What do you think is the biggest factor influencing the availability of these kinds of social spaces in different regions—whether it’s cultural, logistical, or something else entirely?

Does anyone have similar experiences or thoughts on how this affects subcultures and interest-based communities?

Japanese/Koreans evidently do share some deep ancestry that's distantly related to Southeast Asians, as their modal Haplogroups are O1b2a1 and O1b2a2.

O1b2 is exclusive to those two ethnicities (more or less 0% outside of them), and makes up around 30-40% of their Y-DNA Hg. So to say going by its phylogenetic tree, it is closer to the Southeast Asian modal Haplogroup O1a for Austroasiatic and Tai-Kadai speakers than it is to Sino-Tibetans and Austronesians (O2a/O3).

Something interesting is that the closest admixture fst statistics for Koreans (and Japanese) is usually from a mix of majority ancient extremely southern Southeast Asian population + minority Devils Gate (Northeast Asian sample, that has a very regionally limited affinity) as two more concrete ancestral sources, rather than some "broad Yellow-river" + "broad Northeast Asian" which doesn't really net a much-saying result.

Apparently the Vat Komnou findings from Bronze Age Cambodia show a strong affinity with Koreans/Japanese, moreso than to modern day Southeast Asians. This is likely since the Vat Komnou like population was closer to being ancestral to KJ, while not for modern SEA but was related to Nui Nap, which was a source for Vietic Austroasiatic speakers and Ban Chiang and Ban Mac for Tai-Kadai and Austroasiatic.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7250502/table/evaa062-T1/

Intuitively for me Japanese is the only language that sounds kinda familiar, but not understandable. Mongolian sound somewhat? similar phonetically and has not-too-dissimilar prosody (unlike every other language in the area), but intuitively they don't seem familiar think, Manchu-Tungusic languages even less so. Ainu sounds similar prosodically as they it features consonant stops and very short vowel length, which isn't common in the area.

Other languages all sound as foreign as another, except European ones as i grew up with German.

So kinda curious what without further knowledge Korean sounds like to Southeast Asians and what Japanese sounds like to them. In the past there used to be some language theories surrounding a Austronesian substrate, though it lacks concrete evidence.

Do they sound unfamiliar? Familiar? Or maybe neither?

Looking at Cambodia's ethnic makeup, the population is 95% ethnically Khmer. This puts it at similar levels of ethnic homogeneity with the Korean peninsula and Japan. All other Southeast Asian countries are more diverse with a plethora of different ethnic groups.

Its neighboring countries have varied percentages. Thailand is 80% ethnic Thai, Vietnam is 85% ethnic Kinh people, and Laos is only 53% ethnic Lao.

So what factors led to Cambodia to have such a uniformed ethnic makeup in a region with dynamic ethnic identities?

I'm curious, it's quite a bit smaller than Sumatra and Borneo, but it has 150 million people living on it while they only have 60 million and 20 million respectively. Is there something very unique about Java's climate that makes it more habitable than these other islands? Is there a historical context I'm missing? If anyone here is knowledgable I'd love to hear an explanation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonbill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kf-ZU_fOW8

https://focustaiwan.tw/sci-tech/202411110016

There are six species in the taxonomic genus Platalea distributed across the globe, including Platalea minor, the black-faced spoonbill (黑臉琵鷺 / ㄏㄟ ㄌㄧㄢˇ ㄆㄧˊ ㄌㄨˋ), which I have had the pleasure of observing on the coastal edge of southeast Taiwan. Earlier this month, one individual previously rehabilitated by avian specialists made the news for returning to winter in Taiwan courtesy of typhoon winds.

Are reality TV shows popular in your country?

Americans have 9/11, for example. I have the collapse of the USSR (being too young to have fully grasped it or not alive at the time, but still alive in the previous millennium, with the latter being my case). What events are used to define millennials in your countries?

Are there any YouTubers you know who show what their morning, evening, work, school life is like? The general local area I guess. I don't wanna watch those high fi vloggers visiting the tourist destinations. I just wanna get a feel to what your country is like. Preferably a small and lesser known channel of some random person.