Books about Thai life

[Bamboo Grove]

I am just reading a book explaining the Thai way of thinking in a very interesting (and in my opinion, very truthful) way. To understand your partner and other people living around you, try reading this:

Mulder Niels: Inside Thai Society, Interpretations of Everyday Life

[Allenby]

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Mulder Niels: Inside Thai Society, Interpretations of Everyday Life

CAUTION: Mulder's approach -- like that of many academics in the social sciences -- is thoroughly seeped in Cultural Marxism.

I bought and have read this book.
It is certainly useful as a catalog of topics to consider, but the tone and conclusions are thoroughly Marxist.
Most readers under about age 50 or so, won't even notice that.
Mulder, himself, probably can't recognize that bias, because it is the zeitgeist of his academic environment.
For that reason, I won't accept Mulder's conclusions as valid descriptors of Thai culture.

I won't debate details here, only issue that warning.

(Anyone wanting to discuss privately the infection of Cultural Marxism into Thai culture is welcome to contact me by private message.)

-- Al
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[Frank La Rue]

I was browsing a forum for Expats in Udon - I came across this book: ISAAN INTRO by Burnett Brown.

I got it last week and have not read it yet but bought it off Amazon on the reviews. I look forward to the read and will report back in due time.
Many of you folks here may have read allready - hopefully I got my money's worth - one always learn something.

Now - I SHALL proceed to write about Jethro Tull's "Minstrel In the Gallery"

[STEVE G]

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Mulder Niels: Inside Thai Society, Interpretations of Everyday Life

CAUTION: Mulder's approach -- like that of many academics in the social sciences -- is thoroughly seeped in Cultural Marxism.

I bought and have read this book.
It is certainly useful as a catalog of topics to consider, but the tone and conclusions are thoroughly Marxist.....

Seeing as Thailand is currently run by an ultra-right wing, royalist, military dictatorship, I don't think we need worry too much about Marxism!

[Felipesed]

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Seeing as Thailand is currently run by an ultra-right wing, royalist, military dictatorship, I don't think we need worry too much about Marxism![/quote]

Good!

[Bamboo Grove]

This looks very intereting, alhough I have only started it by now. The story was written by Herbert Warington Smyth (4 June 1867 -19 December 1943) who lived in Siam and tells what he saw during 1891-96. So far from what I've read, I really like his language and style of story telling. This really should be read as book as many things are missing from the digital version but it wil have to suffice now.

https://archive.org/stream/fiveyearsins ... g_djvu.txt

[Bamboo Grove]

A take from the book. I really like this kind of story telling:

My business, however, soon took me to the other Bangkoks
that are yet to mention. A long drive along an un-
utterably filthy road, where thrive the most unsurpassed
of smells, to which dead dogs, diseased Chinamen, or
festering drains all give their contribution ; where such
part of the road as is not occupied by the tram is choked
with broken-handled rickshas, Chinese cook stalls, and
rickety gharries; where those receivers of stolen goods
called pawnshops offer valuable watches, curios, or
pistols for a song ; and where such gentlemen as Hang on,
dentist, and Saw Long, carpenter, display their boards.
This is Chinese Bangkok, malodorous and ill-mannered.
Through it, to the peril of your ponies and your springs,
you may reach the cleaner and pleasanter Bangkok of the Siamese.

Such gentlemen as Hang on, dentist and Saw Long, carpenter....