[DownloadMan]

All well and good, people send kids to international schools so thats the edu. that they receive, some people do not want their children to just know about how it is done at home and if they can afford it then you get a job.
But the traditional Thai, at least as I have found and been told, do not go in for birthday celebrations and in fact are not even noticed here in the country where we live, where my wife was born and has lived all her life and I am told that the way it is.
But in the citys they are more westernized and have been changing ways now for many years and so things are done differently there than where we live away from the fast lane, look at the way they dress, you see very few in traditional Thai dress,I see very few that are not, and business people act very differently that they did even in the short time that I have been coming here, They used to dress,act Thai, now they dress and act like a western business man, but change is fast and in another 50 years it will be the same as downtown san jose calif.
Every city Thai wants to be and look farang, drive autos and wear florsheim shoes and a suit with a tie, Have a power lunch with beer and whiskey on a table surrounded by their associates, the only ones of that class Thai that want the old ways are younger Thai that only want the parts that suit them and they can profit from. Where we live they never talk it but live it.
If it looks like a duck and talks like a duck,,then it must be a duck, unless it wants to look like a farang..
All your clients want their kids to speak english and here they don't care if any speak it, Thai is good enough for them.