Southeast Asia When thinking of Southeast Asia you think mostly of chop souey, the Vietnam war, jungles, and very poor people. People don't think of the culture that developed and art that was created there. Southeast Asia is a modern, geographical term used to define the approximate location of territories to the south and the east of India and China. Those countries are North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Portuguese Timor, and the Philippines. Though all of these countries have a very mixed cultural base, it is mostly an "Indianized" area. Their religious beliefs were p