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**BluewayAllere** · 09-21-2012, 09:37 AM

The strongly nationalist government of Plaek Pibulsonggram in the early 1940s promoted the use of the word sawasdee amongst the government bureaucracy as well as the wider populace as part of a wider set of cultural edicts to modernise Thailand."

A lot of the so-called "Thai culture" which our wonderful Culture Ministry is trying to promote and preserve actually dates back to this period and is not as "traditional" as they make it out to be. Other traditions and so-called heroes are actually made up. It is time for the school books to be re-written.

09-21-2012, 09:37 AM	#7
BluewayAllere Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 497 Senior Member	The strongly nationalist government of Plaek Pibulsonggram in the early 1940s promoted the use of the word sawasdee amongst the government bureaucracy as well as the wider populace as part of a wider set of cultural edicts to modernise Thailand." A lot of the so-called "Thai culture" which our wonderful Culture Ministry is trying to promote and preserve actually dates back to this period and is not as "traditional" as they make it out to be. Other traditions and so-called heroes are actually made up. It is time for the school books to be re-written.
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