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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...e-Kamolmatayakul Annira Silver local culture. The collection contains few films and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, usi... ...used to walk. Today, everything must be so easy. Today, people go to watch films in the evenings. People are working all the time, they have no time f... ...of our village haven't yet started imitating them and wearing such things. Films shown on TV also have many bad behaviour models, but luckily the youn... ...ation, the most famous being the so-called 'wonder rice' varieties. In the 1950s, an international testing station was established in the Philippines,... ... nor at any other festivals. People from Thailand would probably view with horror the kind of public drunkenness of young people that happens in Finla... ...lems of modernized and globalized states, the world's shared fates, shared horror stories. The world's nations are united by the internal degeneration... .... Turner 1974a,b. 76. Herbert Phillips’s study Thai Peasant Personality (1950s) identifies values that have been considered important in the villag...

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