[Knongargoapex]

This is mainly directed at other people like me who aren't Thai or Thai natives.

For what reason, other than that you know someone who is Thai, or you like this or that tourist attraction, are you interested in Thai culture?

I think my reasons have been:

I liked durian and Thai food.

I visited Thailand and became more curious about peripheral things like food and the scenery, and I bought some Thai language instruction books while there, which sat on the shelf for a while.

I wanted to learn a second language and remembered the Thai books I had.

I wanted to learn about a culture that is different than my own so that I can look back at myself from another perspective.

I wanted to learn a language that doesn't use a roman script.

I heard some Thai pop music that I liked and then bought some Thai country music and found I liked that too.

I watched some Thai movies and liked those too.

I was interested in Buddhism from having read some books by a Tibetan author (Chogyum Trungpa), and wondered about the perspective of Thai Buddhism, and that has sat on the back burner as something for me to look into.