What obstacles to democracy have South and Southeast Asian nations faced?
Summarize

Since gaining their independence and becoming self-determined, huge issues arose in things like different ethnic backgrounds or different religious practices or a rise in wealthy and corrupt politicians or totalitarian military governments or similar. These factors all combined together to prevent democratization of the country.

Explanation:

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”