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    2. Master-Ad-6636 on

      Guide on how to ragebait the smaller nations in their respective regions.

    4. AdNational1490 on

      Thailand and Indonesia would definitely fall under Indic cultural sphere.

    6. ComradeBehrund on

      What exactly makes China and Mongolia part of a shared cultural sphere? I could understand Russian, not just because of the Soviet Union and Cyrillic but also because of the very close cultural and religious links between the ethnicities of the steppe within Russia. But like, besides Mongolians living in China and a history of exchanging territory and ruling classes (which is also true for Russia), what is the cultural connection between China and Mongolia?

      I mean, I guess fundamentally, should Mongolia really be considered a part of the Indo-Pacific in the first place? Like there is a clear cultural connection between Nepal and Bhutan with coastal South Asia, shared religious traditions, but I don’t know if Mongolia really has that same sort of connection.

    7. toastedclown on

      Honestly all of Southeast Asia should be shaded purple, except possibly Myanmar, and Tibet and Afghanistan probably shaded orange

    8. afkgr on

      Thailand Cambodia and Laos are trending toward more sinosphere now, east asian culture influence taking hold big time, now so much india anymore; cambodia was like the sister nation of India with angkor wat and whatnot, but in modern age china is clearly winning there, once myanmay stablizes it might be balkanized, its gonna be a battleground buffer zone.

    12. Hot-Job-6281 on

      Wrong with Singapore.
      Austronesians are a minority.
      Also vast differences in culture between Christian Philippines and Acehnese Muslims lol.

    17. dogfaced_pony_soulja on

      Australasia, that was the one. Australasia. All the purples. Get everyone on Papua New Guinea and just build up and build up…

    18. DeathCrow_ on

      SE Asia is more Indic than Sinic my friend. Their culture and traditions are evident except Vietnam which is more Sinic and Philippines which is somewhat Hispanic

    20. Joseph20102011 on

      The Philippines and Timor Leste are the oddballs in Indo-Pacific and must have an independent cultural sphere for the Iberianized majority population called “Latin Asia”.

    21. Lase189 on

      Funny how the genetic diversity in India and Pakistan doesn’t count but we have to take nonsense countries like Czech Republic, Estonia, Austria and so many other irrelevant states seriously and the people who live in them distinct from the rest of Europe.

      They should all be handed to the UK.

    24. McSionnaigh on

      Calling Maphilindo just Austronesian is to ignore any other Austronesians such as Formosian, Polynesian, Malagasy and so on. They are just **insular Austronesians within Indosphere**.

    26. Lyceus_ on

      As a layman in this area: would any of Thailand, Burma, Laos and Cambodia be similar enough to make up another cultural sphere?

    27. arjun_raf on

      this map is BS. in reality, there is significant overlap of cultural spheres, especially in SE Asia.

    29. Jiijeebnpsdagj on

      You’d get a well placed arrow to the back from a steppe horseman if you say Mongolia is in the Sinosphere

    30. morning_spark_79 on

      agreed with the point about Philippines being a weird fit for “Indic” – they got spanish colonial influence on top of everything else which kinda sets them apart from the rest of SEA. spent some time in Manila a few years back and the catholic churches + spanish names everywhere really dont scream indian cultural sphere lol

    31. kuma44bear on

      As a Japanese person, I started to feel scared because this map looked vaguely “familiar”

    33. Puzzleheaded-Pen3904 on

      Japanese culture can’t be easily included into Chinese culture. It has developed its own cultural uniqueness during the modern history

    35. DiscoShaman on

      This isn’t entirely accurate. States in eastern India fall into the Sinic category whereas western Pakistan falls under the Iranic category.