Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Explaining South-East Asian Civilizations" video.

  1. My comment from the last video was something along the lines of "it sounds like a very compatible civilization to that of the Anglosphere with both being open and fairly curious of other cultures while also being in economic, geographic, and demographic situations that compliment very well"
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  2.  @dayangmarikit6860  That means nothing. Problem is regarding the cultural force which largely comes from the elite. In this case largely dominated by the Spanish and church
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  3.  @magnus7153  The food is basically just a reflection of region. In fact most of the food of the Caribbean isn't actually shared with Spain at all. Things like rice, which is eaten quite a lot in the Caribbean despite no Asian influence until recently, aren't at all eaten in Europe and aren't even ubiquitous in Latin America. So going on about food seems to be a non-starter. However when it comes to cultural systems the culture seems distinctively Latin even with a more Asian flavor (an example of the Asian flavor being even now a predominantly shame based rather than guilt based society).
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  4. The Indians seem to have not really reached the east side of southeast Asia and the Philippines, not really being on any trade routes, were largely kept out of the spheres so that seems like a non-starter. If there really was a lot of Chinese and Indian influence it'd be much more obvious much like in Indonesia where even more Islam takes a backseat compared to the Latin culture overtly present in the Philippines. Though clearly there are differences and they didn't dominate as a foreign people more as a foreign elite which of course limits how radically it changes the society, but it seems to have influenced society to a similar degree as to the degree Islam and Buddhism took the rest of southeast Asia since the previous cultural norms weren't actually that strong and it's how an identity was formed It's also important to understand that cultural influences submit to local conditions and it's how you have African and Indonesian Islam for so long being radically different from how it is in its home soil. And unlike the rest of Latin America the foreign born population didn't come in and basically displace the native one making the population very much of which inherited those cultural norms so of course they aren't going to be anywhere near the level of cultural similarity. And even then the nations of Latin America are very different from their home country of Spain due to local conditions and various other influences as well as simple time factor. However, despite all of this it still fits in fairly well with Latin civilization even if it is of course closer to the rest of southeast Asia making it both much like how most of southeast Asia has most of its culture shared with each other even if significant parts of their culture end up as part of another civilization which seems to overall be the story of this civilization in a nutshell. In other words: Southeast Asia, having come in too late, sandwiched between twin sons of civilization, and too isolated to ever be forced to make something themselves, are best seen as a mix of their neighbors, natives, and the other outside influences which came to them for several centuries.
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  5.  @danielbirchfield8552  Yeah that's an assumption, most viewers of southeast Asia don't agree with that statement (even this one is a fairly small complaint), and there's no real proof of it anyway. This is a great way to peddle misinformation because apparently you don't like learning about cultures in anything besides the most glorifying manner and peddling of positive myths.
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  6. Yeah but what "wrong opinions" would there be here? It's about a civilization and how it acted with the end message saying that it's a very open one. So not sure what the issue would be here.
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