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

By: Matti Sarmela

...nk is the best? In this next picture, there's a television set, telephone, radio, typewriter, and all kinds of goods. Which of them would you like? t... ...or us. They are just a waste of money. I would only buy the television and radio, so I could listen to the news. With their help, I could obtain infor... ...is as good as a village can be. In this picture, you see a television set, radio, telephone, typewriter, pedigree dog, some foreign food and many othe... ...ing, I watch the news on TV and sometimes I also listen to the news on the radio. On Saturdays, when there's boxing matches on TV, and I don't have wo... ... and many can't read the papers for months. We just rely on television and radio news here. There are many drawbacks to television. In many programmes... ...plete, finalized. Today, people everywhere must also adapt to the world of communications and to undergo experiences produced by international culture... ...s of the globe, mobile phones would create 'mobile phone communities', new communications technology would make radio and television broadcasts 'inter... ...lso differences of degree between villages. As recipients of metropolitan communications the villages near the towns are more urban than the more rem... ...Family, neighbourly and friendly aid. 7. Urban leisure spending. 8. Mass communications. 9. Mass culture. 10. Kinship-centeredness. 11. Metropol...

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