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It's interesting when you think of it but while a great many scholars ( essentially of the Western kind) posit the entire South East Asian region was heavily influenced by these two behemoths - the Indian & Chinese civilisation, it's pretty evident the influence from the Indian side was overwhelming .

You see Indic exports like religion culture language epics like the Maranaos version of The Ramayan in this case unlike what you do for say the Chinese version of their epics which mostly stayed with Chinese immigrants without being disseminated within the wider community there .

For instance you don't see many followers of Daoism or Confucianism within the wider Filipino or Malay ethnic groups now or before do you , but you see the very same people practise an Indic faith with their language being influenced by Indic languages which is extremely surprising given the physical proximity of South East Asia especially the Philippines to China.

Your thoughts on this development? @rockdog
 

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