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News Forum - Thai activists warn that new hair guidelines will allow schools to be more strict
May Bhudda help Thailand if Thailand is preparing for war. -
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News Forum - Thai activists warn that new hair guidelines will allow schools to be more strict
Promoting uniformity (what better way than to use uniforms and identical hair-styles?) and conformity by instilling discipline from an early age on ("do as your elders do or at least say") is a great way to create new generations that effortlessly blend in with the previous one. That results in (or is at least aimed at) maintaining a stable, predictable and "known" society, which may look great at a glance. However, the down-side is that it results in a stagnated and closed society in which blending in is felt to be more important than standing out. On the one hand, Thailand isn't known for e.g. its serial killers or it's public unrest (although the latter has been seen to be brewing in recent years). On the other hand, Thailand doesn't have e.g. a single Nobel laureate or any particular expertise or product the world as a whole relies on/greatly appreciates. If Thailand as a nation would want to maintain the status quo, they'd first have to shut down internet. That's not going to happen, so it has to adapt (even though it's hard to let go of the way things have been done in the past). I believe Thailand is going through a painful transition period, but that at some point it will be recognized as a potentially positive shift and that an aim for excellence will be set and next managed. Accepting any culture for what it is now and assuming it'll stay that way forever would be naïve (both by onlookers as well as Thai themselves). -
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News Forum - Thai activists warn that new hair guidelines will allow schools to be more strict
Uniforms are a form of control - governments saying how you should look and behave. It is also a nod to the supremacy of the military. They are unpopular in Europe as since the f=rise of Fascism relied heavily on the use of uniforms. Before WW2 in Germany practically the whole of German population was wearing a uniform of some kind - a preparation for war. Most countries in S.E. Asia are not democracies and are run on military power. In Thailand civil servants are not referred to a "servants" they are "officers" and wear uniforms, in fact in almost any public service the employees are uniformed "officers" - a term which underlies the power of the state. I find this obsession by authorities with uniform very worrying and when it extends to University students and schools it makes you question the very foundations of Thai society and not just the education system -
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News Forum - Indian tourist beaten by Pattaya nightclub guards
Why are there Indian security personnel at the Indian bars in Pattaya? All employment has to be local people, not imported. If they cannot stick to the rules then, they cannot operate the business. -
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News Forum - Gang of deaf suspects arrested in robberies
First time I've heard of anything like this, so to speak.- 1
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