Comments by "xXxSkyViperxXx" (@xXxSkyViperxXx) on "CaspianReport"
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@akunbuangan2992 "Nusantara" is Indonesia centric too, since it's mainly only used in Indonesia these days. it's an Indonesian term from Old Javanese, which itself borrowed it from an Old Malay compound of "nusa" + "antara", which the "antara" part was also originally borrowed from Sanskrit. Other names to Maritime Southeast Asia are terms like, the East Indies or Austronesia, but austronesia spans polynesia, micronesia, champa, and madagascar too, plus of course, austronesian ethnic groups aren't the only peoples living in the region.
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@zebimicio5204 too much diversity?? hahahaha are you from europe or something lol. look who's projecting ideas. that diversity is what enables or forces all of these countries and peoples to respect each other rather than devolving into petty tribalistic squabbles because there aren't big powerful homogenous groups that could upset the balance. now, look to the north in east asia where the countries are more homogenous and think they can strike out on their own and go and dominate each other so they cant ever seem to get into any sort of union together. if you're implying that indonesia is supposed to be homogenous just because they are majority austronesian, lol most all austronesian countries have varying levels of intermixed populations despite speaking austronesian languages. the proportions and distribution of peoples in each place paints a more diverse picture, living side by side, yet how in the world have they not devolved into the fighting the west expects us to devolve to as if it was like europe. in europe, the people really treat it like a Divide, when it does not even need to be a Divide just because your neighbor is different. in asian countries, conflict avoidance is paramount and when there is a conflict, compromise is always what people head to and most are satisfied with it. I don't get how it is a problem that continental southeast asia is supposed to be not austronesian. lol i myself am not mostly ethnically austronesian yet i live in a society with most being austronesians and they dont see me that differently to do anything. in fact, the people in thailand if only they didnt start talking in thai, they actually look like the same people in my country.
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@zebimicio5204 Nothing is easy in life lol and i dont know which kind of "political union" you're specifically thinking of anyways. the union that works is the asean we have today and its not the monolithic union you're thinking that will supposedly invalidate whoever group that will supposedly make them hate others more.
Indonesia hasn't collapsed and they also repeat that a lot that many doubt their future of national integrity, but they're still whole. Same can be said with many other Asean countries since all have a certain level of diversity. only those in island east asia have such monolithic societies. Separatist movements are always present in many countries. It's just a matter of what level of influence those movements have proportionally over the populations. In most asean countries, they all remain small and insignificant.
Unions of whichever kind it is form for common purposes since cultures arent monolithic. asean stands as it is today, because the underlying initial concept in maphilindo and seato succeeded with asean and as of yet it has not transformed into a supposed southeast asian civil war.
In my country, cultures are finely interlinked and also does not spark mass conflict since any conflict remains as individual small personal conflicts that eventually fizzle out. Only politics and religious extremists spark such mass disorder, which both still appear even in monolithic societies. Perhaps you live in a historically segregationist society to fear such integration since several more distinct groups can as easily cause wide group conflict threatening to engulf you, but if the group's integrity is strong enough or the whole neighborhood is diverse enough to balance each other, there will not be any engulfing of small groups, which is why the governments there have been finding ways to force integrate the society, since a more integrated diverse society ensures its component groups don't see the other groups as monolithic enemies if they balance each other out. there will be too many varying sides that it will dull out a conflict anyways making it remain small and the wider neighborhood remains linked as a minor conflict will remain minor. Monolithic entities catch fire faster anyways, but an interlinked forest only catches fire on certain spots enough time that those spots can be dealt with, and its interlinkedness can make it still a united one and powerful enough a cradle to protect the neighborhood against outside powers
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