Bugging Question: Is East Timor under South East Asia?
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Bugging Question:
Is East Timor under South East Asia? -
yup... they entered the sea games
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yup... they entered the sea games
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Ok. Thanks.
I thought they are part of Autrialiasia or something.
They should join ASEAN. -
I guess that Indonesia will not allow them into ASEAN for a long time. And the rest of the countries like Thailand, Philippines and Malaysia will probably agree that its too early for E. Timor to join.
For another thing, joining ASEAN will be very damaging to E. Timor. There is a AFTA which demands that tariffs be lowered. A poor country like ET needs all the tax revenue it can get.
Maybe when their living standard rises to Cambodia, Myanmar or Vietnam should they consider joining. -
FYI,
East Timor is now called Timor Leste.
As for SEA games, i m don't know. Timor people are culturally and racially different from Asian/SE Asian (malayo/indo-china race) and they are more related to Pacific races like Australia's Aborigines and other similar Pacific races (black coloured ones) e.g. Papau New Guinea ones.
They could chose to be part of Either Asia or be Oceania since they are at the Border line area.
For everyone's clarification, Australia/NZ and other Pacific nations while part of Asia-pacific, are NOT part of ASIA. Australia is already a Continent and they are collectively defined under the Oceania 'continental' region with Australia as their Continent, unlike other 'Continental' region - i.e. main Continent plus islands, it cannot use 'Australia' since Australia is already used as a Country's Name.