Question 5 Which does not belong to the group? Question 5 options: a. Improved education opportunities for the colonial population, the adoption of Western administrative models, and the expansion of travel opportunities and communication channels had created an indigenous middle class and intelligentsia. b. Reformers were motivated by the spread of anti - colonial ideologies, communism foremost among these, and wanted to emulate the model of the Japanese Meiji reforms or the Chinese (1911) or Russian (1917)revolution c. The collapse of European and world markets in the aftermath of second world war and the end of the cold war had strained most colonial economies. d. Tensions between the local population and Asiatic and European migrants had increased.
Question 5
Which does not belong to the group?
Question 5 options:
a. Improved education opportunities for the colonial population, the adoption of Western administrative models, and the expansion of travel opportunities and communication channels had created an indigenous middle class and intelligentsia.
b. Reformers were motivated by the spread of anti - colonial ideologies, communism foremost among these, and wanted to emulate the model of the Japanese Meiji reforms or the Chinese (1911) or Russian (1917)revolution
c. The collapse of European and world markets in the aftermath of second world war and the end of the cold war had strained most colonial economies.
d. Tensions between the local population and Asiatic and European migrants had increased.
Question 6
Is democracy incompatible with the Asian values system?
Question 6 options:
a. It is incompatible. The reason for such is that democracy is not really that important. What is important is the quality of life of the people. Even if people are slaves, they will not complain as long as they eat three times a day.
b. Yes it is incompatible. This the very reason why we need more discipline than human rights. Discipline will bring us more prosperity because there will be social order in the society.
c. Democracy should not be the priority of Southeast Asian countries which are developing states. The reason for this is that it is better to increase economic wealth first before even dealing with democracy. It is impossible to achieve democracy if you are a poor country.
d. No, it is compatible. democracy as according to Amartya Sen is a universal value. This is so because only in democracy can people truly exercise their full faculties and potential as human beings. This is so because democracy champions freedom which is the cornerstone for human happiness.
Question 7
The political system in pre-colonial SEA is different from the western model of the Europeans. What is the proper explanation to this.
Question 7 options:
a. The political system in pre-colonial SEA involves a strong centralized government which oversees the affairs of the annexed territories while the European model is the western type which is more decentralized in structure.
b.Pre-colonial SEA has a more decentralized political system. Local chieftain are in a tributary relationship with a more powerful overlord. European statehood on the other hand is informed by the Weberian model of a nation state which is highly centralized and unitary.
c. Pre-colonial SEA is different from the western model because it relies on the use of maps in order to demarcate its boundaries, unlike the Europeans which relies on the loyalty of their subordinate lords to do the will of the king.
d. All the explanations in the options are erroneous because pre-colonial SEA is not really that different with the western model as a matter of fact they are the same because they both value political power in the hands of a ruling elite which controls the affairs of the state.
he latent tensions between political units and national identities in post-colonial SEA created the tinder for several violent conflicts that flared up after independence.
c. In Southeast Asian postcolonial societies, nation-building was the project of political and intellectual elites in the almost complete absence of a common sense of nation and culture.
d. The first decades following the Second World War have been characterized as an era of elite-driven and often violent nation-building in Southeast Asia: During these years, the region was plagued by an above-average incidence of armed conflict
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