Geography of Southeast Asia: Origins of the Culture 

Very kind words. Thanks for watching.

Your welcome. I'm glad you found it helpful.

Thanks so much for the kind words!

Coming back in June!

Glad it was helpful!

No problem! Thanks for your kind words.

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you very much for your kind words. There actually is much more history of the Khmer Empire. It's hard to cover so much history is the limited amount of time I have for these videos.

I understand 🙏thank you for what you are doing.

Thanks for sharing. As you can understand, it is so difficult to tackle such a broad topic as culture in 12-14 minutes. I'm sure to leave some things out.

Me too. I’ll be back in SE Asia in about a week!

Cambodia is near the top of my “Bucket List”.

Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks. I will be in Manila in about two weeks. Looking forward to it.

​@@rueschhoffteaches Amping on your travels, as fellow filipino in my language that means Take Care.

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Yes, of course. With rare exceptions, I publish my videos on this channel under the Creative Commons license so that teachers can use.

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Yes, I inadvertently left it out. One of the things I intend to fix when I get around to updating these videos

I skipped that an a whole lot more. One of the difficult decisions is what to discuss and what to skip. Unfortunately, when you are making a video about the culture of a region that was first settled some 25,000 years ago, there is going to be a lot that is skipped. I appreciate that you cared enough to post. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

While I did discuss the Vietnam War, as a teacher of American students I feel it is important to provide information on that conflict as it has had an effect on American foreign policy as well as the relationship that many Americans have with their government. However, I don't think that the main focus of this lesson was on that conflict. I did try to portray an objective discussion of the conflict. I'll concede that the issues in Vietnam are far more complicated and complex than the 3 minutes I had to give in this lesson. There has been some interesting scholarship that discusses not only the assassination of Diem as well as interviews with General Giap that Dr. Moyar was able to have before Giap's death which adds even more complexity to the war. I am aware of the relatively recent revelations of the US role in Indonesia, I did not discuss as the revelations are rather recent and without a great deal of scholarship available on the matter, I made a decision (perhaps erroneously) to not address this in a 14-minute lesson which attempts to provide a general overview of the events that have shaped the culture in Southeast Asia. I hope you can understand. I do appreciate your concern. Thank you for caring enough to post. Mr. Rueschhoff

it was not vietnamese war, it was a war of vietnamese people againts whoever wanted conquer Vietnam

Actually, Singapore is 1 degree north of the equator.

The most repeated reason is that the United States believed that communism would spread to Vietnam. The North had attempted to take South Korea in 1950, the Soviets had taken Hungary in 1956, and we just had the Cuban Missile Crisis. American foreign policy at this time was certainly viewed through these red-lensed glasses.

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@@rueschhoffteaches I didn't know this until recent but in Indonesia they practice Islam the principles help people who are troubled. In America we deal with so much pressure trying to fit in to a society who doesn't accept certain people.

You have a great point. I probably should.

That's not how it works...

Wrong

We are not colonized by indo Aryan, so absolutely we are not Indian decendence

Ben Kiernan in his 2rd newest book "Vietnam" : Buddhism spread to Vietnam (as whole modern geographically country) via Indian monks during the second century, which cites the Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanquozhi) and newest archaeological data analyzed by Dr. Nishino Noriko

Srilanka also had mahayana and also vajirayana until 1200's when king "Parakramabahu" got all 3 schools (mahayana, theravada and vajirayana) and made them all into one... I recently got to know that inscriptions surrounding Borbudhur have references to monks learning at "Abhayagiri" in Anuradhapura.... I believe Abhayagiriya payed a huge part in that regions mahayana tradition.