The Roots of the Spirit of Southeast Asia The home-grown ethnic groups of Southeast Asia have sprung from the earliest gypsies of southern China, Tibet, and the Pacific Islands. Deeply animistic in their core beliefs, these clans believe in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects and phenomena. Ethnic kindred dance to harmonies identified with the spirits of earth and thunder . . . …and their ambulation summons the abundance of vegetation and monsoon rains. These melodies personify the social cluster, enkindling a network of fellowship, thus encouraging unity among the rank and file in the kinfolks. | 
