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Originally Posted by Mid We Thais all know the national anthem by heart. We can sing it in our sleep. We know the melody was composed by the great composer Phra Jenduriyang (whose real name was Peter Feit, born to an American father and a Thai mother of Mon descent) following the 1932 coup that overthrew the absolute monarchy. We know the lyrics were rewritten by Luang Saranuprapan in 1939, when the country changed its name from Siam to Thailand. We know that every day we'll hear the national anthem at 8am and 6pm, because prime minister and military dictator Field Marshal Plaek Pibunsongkram decreed so 70 years ago. |
Drives me up the wall...No I know what it's like to be an American or from any other totalitarian state..China, Burma etc...
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Originally Posted by Mid Therefore, instead of singing, praying and expressing undying love and devotion, |
They are forced to...
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Originally Posted by Mid all of which we Thais do naturally anyway |
Or are conditioned to do from an early age...Mao Tse Tung did that as well...America does it as well....crazy shit. W
When you look at all the crazy kids killing other kids at school...Is that next for Thailand....Mai Chop...Poot sa-was-dee Khrap....Khun 9MM...Boah jang leui...as kid goes nuts in Matayom 4...
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Originally Posted by Mid A syllabus on its history and evolution in the context of the human civilisation in general and the Kingdom of Thailand in particular, and its meaning and consequence to modern Thailand? |
Not a good idea one thinks...could cause massive mental breakdowns...
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Originally Posted by Mid Looking ahead into the future, the subject of history, which has been absent in Thai schools for so long, will make a comeback in the school year of 2010. |
Absent for so long!!!! Isn't it an eternity
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Originally Posted by Mid geography |
I've got school kids that don't know places/Provinces in their own country...let alone around the world..or isn't the world gonna be included...As there is only one country in the world??!!!!! I'm so fortunate to be in
and to have a child in...
I too am thinking of taking my Thai wife and half-breed child out of.
Not to mention the fact that most of Thailand is actually Lao, Cambodia, Burma(Myanmar..can't get used to that name) and southern Thailand (the warring parts are independent of both Thailand and Malaysia!!!! Do I qualify as a history teacher as well now and can you double my salary please???
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Originally Posted by Mid No Thai can ever understand and know who we are and where we are going as a country, if we only learn about the greatness and glory of Thailand. |
Come again???? Sa bai dee por??? as they say in north-east Thailand..(Lao) sep sep...
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Originally Posted by Mid Such a context would invite even more confusion, as students and teachers alike frown over the thought: "Wait a second, if we are so great and glorious, how could we be so messed up right now?" |
Damn they've been lying to us all these years and we've been conditioned beyond reproach!!! We're a laughing stock...help!!!!
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Originally Posted by Mid And the easiest way out of such a quandary is to blame foreigners. |
Done, done and done. As Homer says....
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Originally Posted by Mid - not only the good, but also the bad and the ugly. |
Yes, that's it bring Clint Eastwood over to sort things out....Ahhhh actually he's just cancelled...seems he doesn't like the hotels in Bangkok...says the ropes are too tight.....
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Originally Posted by Mid For instance, those topics that are never taught in Thai schools - October 1973, October 1976 and Black May 1992 - are events that directly affected and shaped the modern Thai democracy. Will they be included in the new history syllabus? |
Honesty...surely that's not the best policy...things have been working just fine for us so far.....
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Originally Posted by Mid Patriotism is a form of love and devotion. But a love for one's country isn't the same as the love we watch so fanatically on Korean or Thai soap operas. In those soap operas, a love that is blind, deaf and dumb is always romantic and enjoys a happy ending. However, in real life, a love that is blind, deaf and dumb will only make one trip and fall over, smashing one's face on the ground. |
Sanook, sanook, sanook...
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Originally Posted by Mid We Thais have a popular saying: "Love your child the right way." Which means, not to be blind, deaf and dumb in your love for your child, but rather love constructively, foster and nurture, recognise mistakes and fix them, for the child's future. Shouldn't we also love Thailand in such a way? Love your country enough to recognise the flaws and correct the mistakes, for a better tomorrow? |
Yep, don't teach it feck all, beat it as often as you want or like. if it's a girl at the age of 17 send her to 'work bar'....what a great society (granted not all thai's are as bad as this....some are worse...
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Originally Posted by Mid If we want our youth to be capable of building a better future for Thailand, we should cease and desist from ruining education for them. |
Building...Thai's....personally I found their construction to be some of the lowest standard on the face of the planet...from a country that thinks it's the best..
(most of the plugs don't work in my house, over the past months 2 extension leads have started to smoke and the wires have melted!!!! this is just a recent example!!!)
Education
Oh Lord Buddha, please stop.....
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Originally Posted by forreachingme Pitty the native teachers as they call them, have to be present to that every day and probably cannot voice any comment for that eventually waisted time as they could be fired or sentenced even, if trying change the habits, in that not free speech land... |
What did he/she say...well actually nothing but if you don't like a fellow teacher...under Abhist's new 'grass you up' policy you can get rid of anyone you want... They told me they "hated listening to this twice a day" Gone!!!!!! now there's a job opening for your friend!! (thought that a guy who'd had probably the best education in the world in one of the best countries in the world would make sensible policies.....Oh well that's what thought did for ya!!
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Originally Posted by mao say dung I noticed that on the same page with this apparently half-ways liberal article the same writer has a typically Thai horseshit defense of the Thai refusal to allow foreigners to own land here. So don't let your hopes run away with you there |
Still hate you foreigners...Ahh at least some things over here will remain the same..for eons to come....
(don't come here and change us..and the other doozy I get often..you can't change 'them'..Oh don't I know it...they like to hate...Xenophobia...the new curriculum...the old book
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