[opelayday]

Seeker, I do think the booklet is a good idea to prevent honest blunders. However, all the information in this booklet presumably won't differ much from the cultural do's and don'ts already provided in every guidebook, all around the web, in the many free magazines, maps and leaflets you can currently pick up etc.... The main tourist temples have strict do and don't rules clearly posted too. So all the information is clearly already available for those who want to know it - will one more booklet make any difference ? The problem seems to me to be more the number of people who either don't care or deliberatly ignore the rules, and how that could be improved is a different matter I guess.

And I agree that this booklet is obviously not targeted towards the Thai public, it's just quotes like "If some foreigners still behave with malicious intentions, Thai Buddhists should denounce these people or not allow them to enter the country" and "prevent foreigners from disparaging Buddhism" just made me wonder if they were looking for scapegoats and/or pandering to populist sentiment, rather than actually tackling the issues at the heart of the current crisis in Buddhism in Thailand. Those quotes, after all, definitely are aimed at the (voting) Thai public at large even if the booklet itself isn't.