South-East Asia as one of the ethnic conflict regions of the world

Present article deals with ethnic conflicts in the South East Asia. One of the ethnic conflict regions of the world is Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is the most summoned region as its ethnic, cultural and religion. Surely, we can say that minorities have three groups in this region: ethnic and linguistic minorities, religious minorities and local peoples. Eth-nic, linguistic and religious minorities differ from local nations and it is clear that they are inhabitants afterwards. Among such countries in the Southeast Asia are Philippine, Indonesia, Malaysia. Apart from, like other countries of the world, it is not so easy to distinguish dominant ethnic groups from others in the South-East Asia, too. Island states such as Indonesia and Philippine save their national culture and language which considering the main attribute of na-tional identity. A large number of ethnic minorities are in Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar in the South-East Asia. In such cases, ethnic and cultural distinctions usually is considered danger to national and social unity and the power of post-modern thinks to change these different relations into national unity.