What is the Role of nationalism ethnicity ideology and religion in the building of Southeast Asian regions in the post World War 2 era?

Answer 1

Learn how to use a search engine and find out yourself.

Of course then you would have to learn to think for yourself, so that could be a bit dangerous.

I would suggest your actually learn what nationalism, ethnicity and ideology refer to, and find some examples from post WWII S/E Asia. You could focus on different countries that have had different experiences, but ones that were often motivated and caused by similar issues relation to nationalism, ethnicity, ideology and religion. You would find a lot of stuff on Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma and/or Cambodia.

Some topics and search terms to get you started

S/E Asia Pre-1945 (you will need to set some type of context as to where the ideologies and nationalist movements came from.

"Japanese imperialism" and "World War Two"

"European colonialism" and "South East Asia"

"Vietnam" and "French"

"Burma" and "British" or "Britain"

"Indonesia" and "Dutch"

Nationalism, Ethnicity, Ideology, Religion (I would search these following terms by including either Indonesia, Burma, Myanmar, Vietnam within each search you do)

Communism

Fascism

Burmese Junta

Islam

Javanese

Indonesia separatists

East Timor

Vietnam War

East Asian indigenous populations

Pol Pot

If you have any hope of answering this question in any real detail you would need to be bothered finding out about at least the things listed above and then becoming knowledgable in these things and then putting together this knowledge to develop your own answer to the question.

Very briefly - All of these countries are former colonies of different European countries. This means they were controlled by different European countries. This history of colonisation led to nationalist movements in these regions. The nationalist movements sought their countries' independence from the countries that had colonised them. However, different nationalist movements adopted different ideologies (communism was a common ideology) These countries also shared the experience of being invaded and occupied by the Japanese in world war two. This was a particularly brutal occupation.

Vietnam's defining experience in the post World War 2 era would be the war there, as well as the Independence movement/s that preceded it.

Indonesia was united by a nationalist movement under a leader called Sukarno. He was replaced by a guy called Surharto, who ran Indonesia as basically a military Dictatorship. The main Indonesia ethnic group is the Javanese. Other ethnic groups have been absorbed into Indonesia, and in some cases have become persecuted minorities and/ or involved in resitstance movements themselves. These include places like East Timor, West Papua and Aceh. More recently Islamist groups have sought to challenge authority in Indonesia.

I could go on to give you some background on Burma and Cambodia, but you could also work it out for yourself.