Re: A Curious Trend

Yet, Asian history is among the most interesting and (argueably) 
> important subjects out there. Comments?

Pass.  African and South American history are also fascinating 
topics.  It's also more difficult to draw any major themes in Asian 
history solely due to geographical borders and divergent 
circumstances - Southeast Asia was colonized by Europe, Korea was 
fought over by China and Japan, Thailand has never been taken over, 
South Asia is remarkably divergent in experience from 
China/Korea/Japan, Indochina has its own history.....

The bottom line is that all all regions of the world have remarkably 
fascinating histories.  Making an argument based on this 
or "importance" probably won't get you very far.

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