[Immusaatmonna]

I don't think normal schools teach Chinese. Around here it is mainly English and I think French also. If someone wants their children to learn Chinese then they might send them to the Chinese International School in Samut Prakan. I know some of my past students have Chinese grandparents and they are "forced" to learn Chinese at the weekend. They said they didn't really enjoy it.

Gor wrote about this in his Bangkok Post column last week in an essay called The Red Envelope. He asks why does he have to celebrate Chinese New Year when it is his great grandparents who are Chinese and that he has very little Chinese blood in him.