Why is Southeast Asia poorer than East Asia? Is there a reason?
为什么东南亚比东亚穷？有什么原因吗？（下）
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Yue Yie, former Advisory Board Member (2017-2019)
Since ancient times SEA civilisations were based on trade and not manufacturing;
During western colonisation, the Dutch and the Brits played a divide and rule policy by bringing in immigrants to play active roles in the economy leaving the natives to their devices and internal politics. In the end the migrants are a step ahead in almost every aspect thanks to their close relationships with the colonial masters. Migrants still hold the keys to trade gateways allowing them to monopolise imports and exports of goods and services especially in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia causing huge income disparity between the migrants and the natives;
Artificial national boundaries and monopoly tactics created by colonisation slowly destroyed maritime trade networks and ancient city state ports cestablished by the natives within just a century;
The weather allows SEA people to live with less money than those in East Asia. SEA natives don’t have to plan ahead for winter or to buy thick clothes to withstand the cold. In fact it is better to wear less clothes living in such heat leaving almost no room for progress in fashion and apparel.
自古以来，东南亚文明都是基于贸易而不是制造。西方殖民期间，荷兰人和英国人采用分而治之策略，让外来移民在经济中扮演重要角色，由于和殖民主子拥有密切关系，所以这些移民在任何方面都领先于当地人。移民依然占有着贸易通路，所以垄断了产品和服务的进出口，尤其是在印尼，泰国和马来西亚，导致移民和本地人之间的巨大的收入不平衡。
殖民所产生的人为的国界划分和垄断策略只用了100年时间就渐渐摧毁了本地人所建立起来的海上贸易网络和古老的城市国家港口。
气候使得东南亚国家的人民在生活成本上比东亚人低。东南亚人没必要为冬天做准备，也没必要购买厚实的衣服抵御寒冷。生活在那么热的地方，当然是穿得越少越好，所以东南亚的时尚和服装产业并不发达。
Nabila Shukri
aside singapore, malaysia is the only country in south east asia that close to be developed..malaysia have “very high” HDI where as most country in south east asia have medium HDI except thailand..I think the reason that south east asia poor is :
corruption. corruption is very rampant in south east asia..singapore is the only country that have zero corruption hence be a developed country. Only the rich people can have an access to all the money whereas poor people suffer..
Attitude. Attitude in south east asia is more relax and laid back..we are not as hardworking as korean or japanese that is why south east asia lagged behind east asia
Education. Education is also one of the reason that south east asia is poor..I think education is really important to developed a country and be rich but south east asia education is not that good and most people in south east asia except singapore, malaysia and philippine cannot speak english..
Natural disaster. South east asia is situated in the ring of fire and there is a lot natural disaster such as earthquake,volcano and others..country like indonesia and philippines have the worst natural disaster but singapore and malaysia is safe from it..
除了新加坡以外，马来西亚是东南亚唯一一个接近发达国家的国家。马来西亚的外国直接投资非常高，而其余大部分的东南亚国家所获得的外国直接投资差不多只是中等水平，除了泰国。我认为东南亚贫穷的原因是：
腐败。东南亚的腐败是非常猖獗的。新加坡是唯一一个零腐败的国家，因此成为了发达国家。
态度。东南亚人的态度更加放松和慵懒。我们不像日韩人那样努力，所以东南亚落后东亚。
教育。教育是东南亚贫穷的原因之一。我认为教育对于一个国家的发展来说是非常重要的，但是东南亚国家的教育没那么好，而且大部分人不会说英语，除了新加坡，马来西亚和菲律宾人。
自然灾害。东南亚位于火山带，有很多自然灾害，比如地震，火山爆发等等，印尼和菲律宾最严重，新加坡和马来西亚挺安全。
Donghwan Kim, College Student. Korean Canadian.
Myths:
SEAsians are less hardworking and intelligent.
SEAsia was destroyed much more than EAsia
Reality:
There is not a single developed country(except small ones) in the latitude of SEAsia. Being in hot latitude makes development difficult in many ways. Hot weather makes many hours simply unworkable. Tropical climate leads to very turbulent natural disasters. Tropical diseases cause huge losses as well. 1This leads to the endless bad cycle, causing bad healthcare, poor education, low ethic level, and corruption, which further worsen the economy.
People like to point those factors as the reason why SEAsia is poor, but after all if they were easily fixed, all countries would be rich.
谎言：
东南亚人更不勤劳，更不聪明。
东南亚比东亚遭受了更大程度的破坏。
事实：
东南亚没有一个发达国家（除了小小的那几个）。处于热带地区，让发展变得相当困难。炎热的天气让人们没办法工作。热带气候还带来了非常严重的自然灾害。热带疾病也带来了巨大的损失。所以这就导致了恶性循环，导致医保，教育，道德和腐败的一系列问题，进一步恶化了经济。
人们认为这些原因导致东南亚贫穷，如果这些问题得到解决的话，所有国家都会变得富有。