Re: Southeast Asian and redundancy

[Billy Cravens <bcravens@collegemail.com>]

Personally, I don't see the harm in leaving the words in there. I've 
heard all sorts of arguments as to how the words "Southeast Asia" is 
overly verbose and redundant, however, I fail to see the harm that is 
created.

As far as novices go, including the words Southeast Asia will give them a 
starting point for geographical and cultural research.  Seeing the broad 
area they (the countries) come from on a map may not help them..not every 
novice debater is a geography major.

I think leaving the words "Southeast asia" could make things 
interesting.. someone could kritik it saying one of the countries is not 
in southeast asia, resulting in the "rez invalid kritik".  

Lastly, I feel that including "Southeast asia" allows us to preserve the 
topic area... it might keep some cases in the region, and might avoid 
some of the minute issues in individual countries.  Not that the 
individual country issues are unimportant, I just don't want to ignore 
the region.  

Bear in mind these are my scattered thoughts (i've got fever right now), 
and in no way is my exhaustive defense of the wording.

Last thought: It should be a prerequisite that the only ones who should 
argue against the words "southeast Asia" must have read the topic paper.

Billy Cravens, "Hack Daddy"
Southeastern Oklahoma

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