a) The Southeast Asian realm exhibits shatter belt characteristics.
Like Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia is a region of great cultural complexity that merits the label shatter belt. True. Southeast Asia can be considered a buffer zone as well as a shatter belt. True. The total population of Southeast Asia is relatively modest compared to the populations of India and China. True.
The Philippines’ last colonial master, which granted the country independence in 1946, was the United States.
Southeast Asia can be considered a buffer zone as well as a shatter belt.