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？（上）
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Layla May, Writes at beautyrabbithole.com (perfumes, skincare, makeup)
Asians are generally hardworking, but I do think that we Southeast Asians are generally less hardworking than East Asians. However, I don’t aspire to be as hardworking as East Asians because I think it’s excessive, as they have to work long hours despite their countries being developed. If a developed country makes you unhappy (Koreans call Korea “Hell Joseon”) then that’s not the developed country I want our country to be.
Southeast Asians have less sense of urgency. It’s common if something starts at 5, many of us would come at around 5.10. Strangely, some would even arrive much later lol. Japanese people on the other hand are super punctual. Koreans are also known for their pali pali pali culture
亚洲人总体上是勤劳的，但是我认为东南亚人没有东亚人那么勤劳。然而，我不想像东亚人那么勤劳，因为我认为那有点过度了，尽管他们的国家已经发展起来了，但是他们还是得长时间工作。如果变成发达国家都无法让你感到开心，那么我不想让自己的国家变成这样的发达国家。
东南亚人没有那么大的紧迫感。如果某件事情5点开始，我们一般5点10分才到。有些人甚至迟到更久。而日本人则非常准时。韩国人也是如此。
Layla May
I agree. I think hot weather is a much bigger factor than humidity though. Mr Lee Kuan Yew really understood this. He said when he became PM he quickly installed air conditioners in many buildings.
我同意。我认为炎热天气比潮湿天气扮演着更大的作用。李光耀先生是明白这一点的。他说在他成为总理后，他马上在各个大楼里安装空调。
Dayang Marikit
I don’t think that it’s a major reason thought… for most of Southeast Asian history these places weren’t always poor…. I think that the current state of Southeast Asia has more to do with the Western colonization of this region.
我不认为这是一个主要原因，在东南亚的大部分历史时间里，这些地方并不总是那么贫穷。我认为东南亚的现状和西方对该地区的殖民有着更大的关系。
Those country with general low quality of education will loss up in economy development. For example Vietnam, despite having more than 80 universities, but it is not surprising if many of university graduates become low ranking pay job like security guard, receptionist at hotel, taxi drivers, manual job, etc. Despite Vietnam able to attract FDI in manufactoring sector. Most of the factories set up in Vietnam are low technology products assembly, R&D is very negligible.
Another factor greatly affect economic development of the country is corruption level. I dare to generalize that rich and well developed countries normally have low level or neglible corruption issues. There are many potential countries in SEA to be rich like East Asia countries mentioned above or Singapore but due to high level of corruption, these countries are faltered economically!
而教育水平较低的国家在经济发展上就相对落后了。比如越南，虽然拥有80多座大学，但是很多毕业生却成为了低薪工人，比如保安，酒店接待，的士司机等等。尽管越南能吸引到制造业领域的外国直接投资。越南的大部分工厂都是低技术产品生产线，研发非常少。
另一个影响经济发展的因素是腐败水平。我敢说富有的发达国家一般而言拥有较低的腐败水平。东南亚很多国家有潜力像东亚国家或者新加坡那样变得富有，但是由于腐败严重，阻碍了这些国家的经济发展。