Imperialism in Southeast Asia

There was mixed results to imperialism in Southeast Asia, economies grew, roads, harbors, and railroads. Millions migrated to work on Asian plantations and mines. The melting pot of Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Buddhists. 

The pacific rim is southeast Asia. It was important to the colonizers because the lands was a strategic location along the sea route to China. Tropical agriculture, minerals, and oil. They were Asian countries that border the pacific ocean.

The Dutch discovered oil and tin. The Dutch created classes 1) Dutch 2) wealthy Asians 3) plantation workers at the bottom. The British needed workers for tin and to top rubber trees, they encouraged the Chinese to immigrate to Malaysia. The Malays became a minority in their own country. Wars between the resident Chinese and the native Malays that are still unresolved today. The French, Napoleon the third sent in an army to invade southern Vietnam, the French added Laos, Cambodia, and northern Vietnam. They did not encourage local industry. 4 times the land for rice production, peasants' consumption of rice decreased. The Malays started a resistance against the French.

Imperialists believed in Social Darwinism, that God chose them to be people to take over other people and use their resources.