Thai Nazi School - Thewpaingarm Bangkok

[DaveRobin]

I just read a thread on this website:

TEFL School Reviews Forum • View topic - Thewpaingarm School in Bangkok

That's about a Thai School in Bangkok where the students were allowed to dress as Nazis and parade around the school giving each other a sieg heil. Now, nothing wrong with teaching the little bumpkins about the holocaust, but treating it as some sort of pantomime is insulting to probably just about everyone on this board as well as the memories of the victims and soldiers who were involved in this period of evil from our history.

When the Thais most revered person is denigrated in anyway, their ambassador will make an official complaint, the government will block websites and her people will launch vitriol on websites attacking insensitive heathen farang.

Should we stand back and take it up the arse, or announce to the world what a bunch of cnuts the owners, teachers and staff of the school are?

Thewpaingarm School Bangkok

[colourful-era]

Now, nothing wrong with teaching the little bumpkins about the holocaust, but treating it as some sort of pantomime is insulting to probably just about everyone on this board

doesn't bother me - get over it you hippy lentil!

[chitown]

Most Thais have never heard of the holocaust.

Many do not even know about the genocide in Cambodia either

[Sfolia]

Waiting for some apologist to come on and tell us it's an ancient oriental symbol.

[bkkmadness]

This is an old report on this school, I think it happened a couple of years ago.

Now, nothing wrong with teaching the little bumpkins about the holocaust, but treating it as some sort of pantomime is insulting to probably just about everyone on this board as well as the memories of the victims and soldiers who were involved in this period of evil from our history.

One thing that springs to mind here is the genocide of native Americans. Go to a kids fancy dress party anywhere in the western world and there will some kid dressed as a cowboy shooting his gun at an Indian.

[colourful-era]

^^^most Thais don't know shit about anything let alone foreign history.

[Redneck]

When did this happen? (Has to be recent to be newsworthy)

What was the rationale behind it and who's idea was it?

What is the background of this school. (eg location, size, students, ages)

Has it been reported in the Press?

If there's a teacher there who can go on the record, I should be able to get this into the international newspapers without much problem. If its an old story, then its can just stay as Forum fodder for grumpy old men. The marching kids seem to be more interested in their fingernails than gassing Jews.


answer....it was december 2006. Not news or of interest to anyone.

[reinvented]

Should we stand back and take it up the arse, or announce to the world what a bunch of cnuts the owners, teachers and staff of the school are?

they were reported to the simon wisenthal center and forced to bend over and fist themselves publicly

i know the owners, and they are not bad people, just nouveaux rich thai chinese
the school is run by muppets by the sounds of it

[ChiangMai noon]

When did this happen? (Has to be recent to be newsworthy)

at least a year ago.
there was a thread on here about it before.

[colourful-era]

'run by muppets' - now that's a novelty here

[Frankenstein]

Waiting for some apologist to come on and tell us it's an ancient oriental symbol.

It's an ancient oriental symbol.

[obsidian]

^ tibetan, it is.

[good2bhappy]

I thought it was Jain?

[jandajoy]

The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for over 3,000 years. (That even predates the ancient Egyptian symbol, the Ankh!) Artifacts such as pottery and coins from ancient Troy show that the swastika was a commonly used symbol as far back as 1000 BCE.
During the following thousand years, the image of the swastika was used by many cultures around the world, including in China, Japan, India, and southern Europe. By the Middle Ages, the swastika was a well known, if not commonly used, symbol but was called by many different names:

• China - wan
• England - fylfot
• Germany - Hakenkreuz
• Greece - tetraskelion and gammadion
• India - swastika

Though it is not known for exactly how long, Native Americans also have long used the symbol of the swastika.

The Original Meaning
The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix.
Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck. Even in the early twentieth century, the swastika was still a symbol with positive connotations. For instance, the swastika was a common decoration that often adorned cigarette cases, postcards, coins, and buildings. During World War I, the swastika could even be found on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division and on the Finnish air force until after World War II.

[obsidian]

i was joking. its a swastika. the tards at the school dont get it. or do and dont care. thailand.

[EmperorTud]

Thais are practically nazis in their nationalism and xenophobia anyway.

[jandajoy]

Thais are practically nazis in their nationalism and xenophobia anyway.

Please explain........

[ChiangMai noon]

Please explain

don't encourage him.

[Sfolia]

Thais are practically nazis in their nationalism and xenophobia anyway.

Please explain........

A freakish leader who is worshipped.

Humans casually slaughtered.

Propaganda, mantras, oaths.

Institutionalized and legal discrimination against non-Thais.

[jandajoy]

don't encourage him.

Fair comment. He's a bit up himself in't he?
Iechyd da!

[ChiangMai noon]

Iechyd da!

where are you from btw.

place is filling up nicely with welsh people.

[AntRobertson]

He's a bit up himself in't he?

Any further and he'd be inverted.

[DaveRobin]

So, a fat drunk kraut paints a moustache on to an image of the K### a couple of years back and received 10 years in the clink - later deported.

The K is revered so much that you go to prison if you mention his name and a negative connotation can be found in anything you say. However, it's ok for his people to take the piss out of the holocaust and its victims. Even a baboon understands there's a big difference between respecting a rich and privileged person and 60 million dead people (I've included the dead of the other nations who were victims of WWII).

[EmperorTud]

^^ oh you're back.

I thought you were voted off the board and left in embarrassment?

[EmperorTud]

Even a baboon understands there's a big difference betwen respecting a rich and privileged person and 60 million dead people (I've included the dead of the other nations who were pulled into WWII).

Even a baboon, but apparently not the Thais, Ant or Jandajoy.