Culture of South, Southeast, and East Asia

Family

• Family is often very important • Extended families often lives together

(grandmas, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins, etc.) = Joint Family System

Ideograms

• a written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it– e.g., numerals and Chinese characters.

爱 = Love

Batik• A method of dying fabric and creating patterns

with wax • Common in Indonesia, Singapore, India,

Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka

Floating Markets

• a market where goods are sold from boats.• Common in cultures where fishing is a big deal

like Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Mongolian Yurts

• a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt used as a dwelling by nomads in

Thatched roof houses

• Traditionally used in warmer climates – use plants found in the area

Practice Question

Yurts and thatched roofs are examples of which theme of geography?

A. MovementB. RegionC. Human Environmental InteractionD. Location

CULTURAL LANDMARKS

Taj Mahal

Angkor Wat