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According to my future father in law who fought along side Chairman Mao in 1939 at the age of 25 ( he's now 97 ) Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Tibet are all part of and belong to China, I tend not to disagree with him to much, he is a fiesty old bird.
You don't need to be in China very long to realize that NO PLACE is like China. China is, above all, a culture, and with the possible exception of Taiwan, it is unique culture with all of its own attributes.
Cambodians can look dark but their facial features don't seem of the Indian type to me (flat noses, pretty hairless lol). I notice some Burmese, some Thais and even some Malays (the minority though) do look somewhat Indian. India may have had more direct influence in the past, but I think to most people the similarities with China would be more obvious.
"Khmers are unique and handsome in appearance. Distinct from their Southeast Asian neighbors, Khmers more closely resemble people from the Indian Subcontinent. This makes sense, as Cambodia was historically an important station on the Indian-Chinese trade route."
Cambodians can look dark but their facial features don't seem of the Indian type to me (flat noses, pretty hairless lol). I notice some Burmese, some Thais and even some Malays (the minority though) do look somewhat Indian. India may have had more direct influence in the past, but I think to most people the similarities with China would be more obvious.
"It is always interesting seeing the changing faces and landscape of the new country you enter and Cambodia marked a significant change as we crossed the border and moved towards Phnom Penh. Faces became much darker with an almost Indian aspect to the appearance of the people (which is no surprise as the Khmers were heavily influenced culturally by the Indians and the Buddhism they introduced to the region).
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There's certainly been a lot of contact between the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia, but it doesn't seem so accurate to say they were the predominant influence. Meanwhile, India itself is a patchwork of fairly disparate cultures.
I would say outside of the obvious answers of Singapore and Taiwan, perhaps parts of the Malaysian peninsula are pretty similar to parts of China and the same goes for Vietnam.
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