Asi A Geographic Identity

There is an extensive history empirical power, repeatedly and successfully controlling another state or group of people in order to exploit it economically. In Southeast Asia there were 5 colonial powers; the United Kingdom, France, Dutch, America, and Japan, their primary motives for establishing colonies in the region was to get control of trade routes, to get access to the natural resources and raw materials, and the cheap labor, as well as to establish naval and military bases so that they could amass influence in the region. Prior to World War II, a third of the world 's area was colonized by European colonial powers between the 15th and 19th centuries, and another third of the world 's population were in colonies, dependencies, protectorates, or dominions. In this essay, I will focus on the British and French colonization in Southeast Asia. The British-controlled Burma, most of the Malayan peninsula, and Singapore, which was a strategic port and later became a naval base for the British. Meanwhile, the French controlled the adjoining countries of Vietnamese, Cambodia, and Laos, collectively known as French Indochina. This period of colonization in Southeast Asia brought many changes to the regions society, politics, and the economy. For instance, both colonial powers introduced political changes such as introducing a centralized form of government and changes to the justice systems in many of the colonized countries. There were also social impacts resulting from the

For many students around the world, ethnocentrism is a real, serious issue that impedes understanding and success. One example of how this ethnocentrism invades the minds of the average American and distorts their thoughts is by asking them to compare different Asian histories or cultures, to which they will likely reply “they’re all the same.” In addition to being ethnocentric, this viewpoint is just plain wrong. Take, for example, Qing China and Tokugawa Japan. Though these two Asian empires had many things in common, they are far from being the same.

2. These characteristics are always the opposite of the West (passive/ active, static/ mobile, emotional/ rational, chaotic/ ordered)

Women and children who are being sexually exploited are often found in the urban areas of Thailand, but even rural areas have a share of commercial sex workers (Lau, June 2008). The Thai society is extremely male dominated as men are considered superior to women and hold the government and societal power (Vejar & Quach, May 2013). Foreign investors have a great deal of power in Thailand as the country has become more dependent tourism and manufacturing rather than the traditional small farm economy (Geary & Meyer, June 1993).

play a role in sex trafficking and the sex industry stem from actions taken on individual, national, and international levels, and therefore occur within and outside the borders of a country. Therefore, the geographical distribution and occurrence of sex trafficking is based on many compounding factors including those of gender inequality, economic stability or lack thereof, and supply and demand. Gender inequality plays a large role in sex trafficking and the sex industry, itself. Women and children are the main victims, but there is a growing number of boys and young men being targeted in areas where sex tourism is high, such as Sri Lanka.

Considering the specific characteristics of Asian culture, the explanations can be drawn from two perspectives: what decreases the risk and what hides the risk. From general perspective to specific perspective, the following sections will compose the whole

Southwest Asia is the term geographers’ use when referring to the Middle East. "Middle East" is a political term coined by the British in the 1930's to distinguish the region from both the Far East, which included China, Japan and Indochina, and the Near East, which included portions of Western Europe. All of these areas are truly only "east" of Europe. In order to emphasize a more global perspective, geographers prefer to use the politically neutral term "Southwest Asia" because it does not connote a Western European bias.

Asia contribution, have change the way we live, without them our lives would be different. Silk, silk road, compass, paper, Chinese calligraphy, movable type, gunpowder, and printing. They have hugely impact the world as we known it. The contribution has spread worldwide and have been used by many and almost everyone, because of this contribution they have made life easier. However, the compass impacted how we navigate across the sea and a cross land as well.

The inequalities caused by globalization created a number of factors that pushed people from their home countries and pulled people into other countries. These push and pull factors are what enable the success of human trafficking today. Traffickers will use pull factors to entice destitute women and girls with prospects such as high wages, good jobs, education, and marriage. Some women will knowingly enter the sex industry because they feel they have no alternative, while others are lured by traffickers with promises of work in factories, restaurants, hotels, etc. Traffickers generally choose destination countries that have large sex tourism industries because the demand is so great for cheap sex. Globalization created push and pull factors

In How Asia Works: Success and Failure In the World’s Most Dynamic Region, Joe Studwell explores what led countries such as Japan, South Korea, and China to economic prosperity while countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines failed to ascertain opulence. He describes this separation of success as on that creates two East Asias. He presents his arguments in a four-part narrative detailing the step-by-step process through which countries complete the ascension process. He supports his claims with a 67-page long list of references from the Meiji Restoration all the way up to present day (2014 being that the book was published then). This essay will analyze and critique one main component from each step of his three-step recipe for

In a small village consumed by poverty a man in a business suit shows up. He goes from family to family offering to buy children for a year’s worth of pay. He gets to one family with a young girl whose father sells her to feed his addiction for heroine. Scared and confused the girl is now forced into a brothel, sexually pleasing more than 20 men a day. Nearly five years later she is rescued only to lose her life to AIDS from unprotected sex. The human trafficking industry in Thailand has long been overlooked both internally and externally. Corruption, greed, foreign relations, economic pressure, and overall demand have fueled the trafficking industry in Thailand. Until the world and the Thai government make serious changes to the way they

According to UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, trade in women and children for sex in South Asia is much too out of control. The UNICEF estimated that at least 500,000 women and children are trafficked each year in Asia. Statistics show the more than Half of the people held in slavery worldwide are in Asia. According to Douglas, Although not all slaves are forced into the sex trade, "a considerable proportion will have become involved in such exploitation” and the problem could be stopped "tomorrow" if men would not participate in exploitative sex. ( Douglas, Carol Anne,2016)

The all-encompassing power of the sex industry has devastated the economic and financial status of women in the developing countries. Governments in the developing world encourage the sex industry due to the profit they gain to pay their countries’ debts, and are uninterested in the women’s well-being.

It is one among many other perspectives which reveals the complexity in Southeast Asia, a region which requires classification by similarities and differences to understand it, even as conditions and events seem to resist such classification.

We have always known the world as four separate geographic regions, the North, South, East and West. The West has been significant in the ideas of America and Western Europe. All characterized by common clothes, language, culture, race, ethnicity and economics. But as time passes, the idea of “the West” begins to dissolve amongst other cultures and regions of the non-western world. Blending of cultures begins into the east creating multiculturalism and western influences. In Kirans Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss the experiences of the characters in the novel disintegrates the idea of “the West” into the East and we can no longer distinguish one