the Southeast Asia culture regiona culture region, or culture area (or Global Village)Â is an area where common cultural components, traits, or characteristics have developed over time, and are shared among various societies, due to a variety of causal factors such as immigration, war, colonialism, forced acculturation, technology and travel advances, etc. consists of eleven countries, including lands in Asia South of the Tropic of Capricorn, and excluding the Pacific Islands and India – some out of date maps may still show Asia (alone) as a cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static region, designating it as “Oriental,” which included India and some Pacific Islands as well