Thai
culture in transition - The Anniston Star,
April 10, 2005
...Thailand today is faced with the disruptive impact on its traditional
core values and institutions, rooted in hierarchy and patriarchy,
by the emerging forces of individualism, egalitarianism and good governance.
The ensuing struggle between tradition and change has proved to be
volatile with concomitant instability, disorder and disharmony. Some
see Thai society’s survival in retrenchment, in preserving and
strengthening the barricades of tradition; only then will there be
social and political stability and security. Others contend society’s
survival is actually dependent on breaching those very barricades
and reforming Thai society to be more in tune with a largely antithetical
set of values identified with so-called civil society. Both sides
tend to view this culture conflict, this internal “clash of civilizations”,
as a zero sum game...
Thai culture in transition
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