The Imperial Element in the Southeast Asian Identity-Building – Imbibing a Legend
The Imperial Element in the Southeast Asian Identity-Building – Imbibing a Legend

Summary/Abstract: This article administers an examination of how Imperialism has spurred the forming progressions and specificities for the treatise of identity-building in Southeast Asia, a region comprising: Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Brunei and East Timor. As well, the article discusses the heirloom that the fluctuations of degree, of temporality and of frequency of interactions that have bequest the endeavors to urge on the regularity of sameness between the different states abiding in the region. Throughout the article, we utilize the term of identity-building as a process of change-undergoing and of interaction between the regional states, picking up the pinnacle of taking on the form of regularity and identicalness.

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