Geography of South Asia Modern Issues

This lesson introduces viewers to the demographics, governments, economic systems, modern issues, and culture of the people of South Asia.

Discussed in this video are population demographics such as birth rate, literacy rates, as well as population pyramids of selected South Asian countries. Additionally, reasons for South Asia's high population are provided. The lesson also makes the linkage between South Asia's high population and its high poverty rates and why nearly 1/2 of the world's poor live in South Asia.

The economies and government system of each country are explained and how India has used the free market and out-sourcing to reduce its poverty rate.

Then elements of culture such as education, family, marriage, sports, music, and architecture are examined.

CORRECTION: In the video, I stated that Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world. This is incorrect. Their population density is about 2900/square mile, but they are only the 10th most densely populated country (7th by some other measures). Sorry.

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South Asia is one of the greatest regions in the world.

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Sir, it is normal that people belives in the Aryan theory but there are no aryan or dravidian(this terms are inventions of the invaders and terms used by corrupt political parties all over India), it is a genetic pool called ancestral south indian (ASI) and ancestral north indian(ANI). Every Indian person has ANI and ASI genes within them, the diference is only fenotypical meaning that you can see the diference in the body. There are diferent colors of skin and languages because the land is big and therefore there are a lot of people and not every one knows each other or travel to other states. In europe for example, somone from Portugal or Spain is different from someone from Finland or Britain, then imagine a country like india that is almost as big as Europe... for sure you will find different languages that have nothing to do with each other or cultures or ethnicities! Before the invasions of Mughal or British, india was more homogenous as far as common cultural goes(Sanatana Dharma). The video is really informative!