Thai culture
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19 September Invited to a Lanna wedding today. No monks attended and the ceremony was conducted by the same village elder who officiates at all local weddings. The marriage is symbolic and regarded as more important than the signing of documents which will take place later at the local amphur registration office – maybe months…
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THE THAI SMILE The world always looks brighter from behind a smile Lanna, the northern part of Thailand, is known as the land of a million rice fields (lan = million, na = rice fields). After you have read this chapter, you may feel you want to call Thailand the land of a million smiles.…
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The Chinese Spring Festival is celebrated from 10 February to 24 February. 10 February is the start of The Year of the Dragon for the Chinese in Thailand. A little over 40% of the Thai population of 70 million can claim some Chinese ancestry, 15% are ethnic Chinese with That citizenship. No wonder then that…
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Final episode Matt OwensRees. profile of a writer on Thailand My focus group took time to develop but is now paying dividends. I can bounce ideas off Thais from varying social classes. From poor farmers and construction workers to those working in offices and shops. From bankers to well-off business owners. The group includes members…
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Let’s compare attitudes of rugby players towards their opponents in order to develop this question further. This image is of a lunch after the referee has blown the final whistle and both rugby teams retire to eat, drink, and chat together. Those of my readers who have read my book, The True Story of the…
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A wasted day visiting 2 banks and a car repair shop. Having spent 6 hours today sorting out what could and should have been resolved by three simple telephone calls, as one would expect to be able to do in the West, I have at least crystallised my thoughts about WHY these frustrations happen regularly…
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Some commentators hold the view that the typical Thai is lazy. Although at first glance that may appear to be so, watch men and women working an eight hour shift in the hot sun on a construction site. I think readers will then be convinced Thais are not lazy. Observe how the rice farmers, bent…