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Culture Min eyes using Thainess to enhance national image, income

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19 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

And when even the culture minister himself obviously is not aware that the Ramayana is actually a 4th century BCE Indian/Hindu epic on which the 18th century CE Thai version, the Ramakien (รามเกียรติ์), is based (in other words, unfortunately it's more or less a rip-off, like so many things in Thai culture), then you've already got a slight problem with this grand scheme.

In Canada it is called cultural appropriation similar to what our Canadian Prime Minister did when he recently visited India. 

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How will this help Thailand prepare for the future?  Always pretending to live in the past leaves you in the dustbin of history 

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