Condemnation after men dress as Nazis at Bangkok mall festive event

[Raymonddiaz]

China is organizing concentration camps and no one dare to condemn. Maybe in 2 hundred years..,,

[Jane Dough]

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

If the second war found it's way into the history books, there would be absolutely no mention of how the Thai navy fought the Japanese invasion in December 1941 for almost five hours, before the prime minister told the navy to stop fighting the Japanese, allowing them to invade enter Thailand. Admitting that would involve a loss of face.

 

I can't imagine a school trip to the war cemetery at Kanchanburi, as that would raise questions about how the Japanese could have run a POW camp on Thai soil.

We taught Year 5 all about the second world war and every February took the children to visit Hell Fire Pass, go to the cemetery and ride on the Railway. They were very respectful and interested in the commemorative museum. Admittedly an international school but most of the kids were Thai. 

 

There is no need for Thailand to be ashamed for its role in WW2. The Japanese had just about the largest military machine in the world certainly in Asia. The Thais were sensible to appease and avoid wholesale destruction of their country and people. 

 

But the wearing of Nazi uniforms is pure ignorance. For the organisers to come out and condemn it after is too late. Somebody there should have stopped it before they got on stage. Yeh, dream on...

 

Rooster

[Daffy D]

 Are those actual Nazi uniforms or just ordinary German soldier uniforms?

 

Not all Germans were Nazis. Nazi was just a political party and not all Germans belonged to or supported it.

(National Socialist German Workers Party)

[30la]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Photographs which show two Thai men dressed in Nazi uniforms at an event at a Bangkok shopping mall have been condemed by the Israel's ambassador to Thailand.

Of course, who if not a Jew can take offense?
They are only German military uniforms no more.
You have been killing with impunity for years.

[Assurancetourix]

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

Japanese soldiers marching through their village after they invaded Thailand, on their way to Burma.

It's impossible ..

 

We all know that Thailand has never been colonized;
in any case that is what official History tells us ...

Except that official History forgets to tell us that Thailand and Japan had signed an agreement and even several.
in fact Thailand was allied with Japan 

[Owiee]

2 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

The unfortunate truth is they have none nothing illegal in Thailand

Distaste to millions, but not illegal, I doubt many Thais of any generation would have knowledge of the holocaust

Correct, this issue like so many problems is based around a lack of education. From my perspective the issues with the education system will continue to hold back the Country 

[Jessi]

Just get MOSAD on the job that will fix them.

[Assurancetourix]

2 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

The unfortunate truth is they have none nothing illegal in Thailand

Distaste to millions, but not illegal, I doubt many Thais of any generation would have knowledge of the holocaust

 

I don't know; you are certainly right;
in any case thai love provocation 

 

That Phanom a few years ago

 

 

Udon Thani - parking lot Tuckom 

 

[neeray]

44 minutes ago, mikebell said:

In a nutshell.  Thais are ignorant of the rest of the Universe, not helped by the PM saying Thai would soon be the Universal language of the World!

He's not noticed the Internet yet.

Agreed, many (certainly not all) are ignorant to world geography and events already mentioned here, like 911.

I recall mentioning British Columbia to a Thai lady. Can't recall now exactly though whether she thought I was a Brit or that I was involved in the Columbian drug trade. There was definitely lack of knowledge shown. And there is very little awareness of the Caribbean Islands.

 

But then I have encountered many Americans who know squat about their neighbour Canada.

And Canadians who know squat about Asia, especially those who can't differentiate Thailand from Taiwan. But all Thais seem to know who Trump and Kim are.

[holy cow cm]

They did not mention the high school girls at a Christian private school in Chiang Mai in Nazi uniforms back some many years ago. Anyway, better to dress like the Japanese soldiers who made the death railroad up in Kanchanaburi.

[bluesofa]

28 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

We taught Year 5 all about the second world war and every February took the children to visit Hell Fire Pass, go to the cemetery and ride on the Railway. They were very respectful and interested in the commemorative museum. Admittedly an international school but most of the kids were Thai. 

 

There is no need for Thailand to be ashamed for its role in WW2. The Japanese had just about the largest military machine in the world certainly in Asia. The Thais were sensible to appease and avoid wholesale destruction of their country and people. 

 

But the wearing of Nazi uniforms is pure ignorance. For the organisers to come out and condemn it after is too late. Somebody there should have stopped it before they got on stage. Yeh, dream on...

 

Rooster

That's interesting to hear of a school trip there, even though it was an international school.

Do you remember if any of the kids raised questions as to how there was a Japanese-run POW camp in Thailand?

 

I sort of follow what you say about avoiding destruction of their country. Perhaps from a ferang point of view I'd expect them to stand on principle.

 

My point was concerning how Thais perceive loss of face, when the Thai prime minister Phibun Songkhram instructed the military to stop fighting and allow the Japanese in.

From my admittedly limited experience of hearing the results of Thai government school history, it seems to constantly teach history in a very nationalist way, That's why I wouldn't imagine it would be a natural addition to the curriculum.

 

Edited December 25, 2019 by bluesofa
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[CGW]

56 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Thais are ignorant of the rest of the Universe,

Are they? or are they kept that way? "Thai's don't set the education syllabus, the government does! & they have no intention of changing it! The indoctrination (Education) system is working well, same as most places in the world.

You mention the "internet" is that not just for "fun" FB and all the other fantasy world nonsense, if people do start to get their perceptions changed by the "internet" the "news" will be banned! or filtered as Silicone valley is doing now.

[PatOngo]

2 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

I doubt many Thais of any generation would have knowledge of the holocaust

I doubt many Thai's would remember last week!

[TKDfella]

22 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

We taught Year 5 all about the second world war and every February took the children to visit Hell Fire Pass, go to the cemetery and ride on the Railway. They were very respectful and interested in the commemorative museum. Admittedly an international school but most of the kids were Thai. 

 

There is no need for Thailand to be ashamed for its role in WW2. The Japanese had just about the largest military machine in the world certainly in Asia. The Thais were sensible to appease and avoid wholesale destruction of their country and people. 

 

But the wearing of Nazi uniforms is pure ignorance. For the organisers to come out and condemn it after is too late. Somebody there should have stopped it before they got on stage. Yeh, dream on...

 

Rooster

Well, I'm not too sure what Thais should know or remember about the said period. You might want to check but I think that either the Thai King or the the Prime Minister at the time remained in one of the Norse neutral countries. Also there was the the Thai-Franco war too. I don't know the details of these and I suspect very little is mentioned in Thai history books.

However, I would expect some modicum of knowledge with companies and the government. After all, they aren't slow in banning material they find offensive.

[sanemax]

13 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

They did not mention the high school girls at a Christian private school in Chiang Mai in Nazi uniforms back some many years ago. 

Why should they mention that ?

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, LomSak27 said:

Thailand has never been big on teaching about World War II in their schools, for obvious reasons. That is not going to change anytime soon.

Thailand has never been big on teaching about the history or geography of the world, the emphasis is on Thai history, monarchy etc.

For decades it's been the conclusion of the education ministry that's it's not in the childrens best interests to learn about the outside world.
It's only in the last decade or so that they realised that there is an outside world.

Open a world atlas and ask any school child to point out Thailand and most would fail, ask them where another country is & you'll most likely get a blank look!

Ask about world history or events you might as well ask the brick wall.

[holy cow cm]

5 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Why should they mention that ?

Because they mentioned 2 others, and this one went viral almost even more.

[Tops]

Just ask a random Thai the following questions:

Q: Who was Hitler ?
A: Owner of a fried chicken restaurant !

Q: What is holocaust ?
A: Free housing program long time ago !

Q: Word War II ?
A: Thailand won !!!

Q: Kamikaze pilot ?
A: Very strong cocktail !

Q: Winston Churchill ?
A: English football defender from Arsenal !

[PatOngo]

Don't hold your breathe waiting for that!

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[rossco1]

never seen one word condemning the event only about  2  and there strange choice of costumes bit harsh calling people Gutless Cowards 

[kingdong]

13 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Thailand has never been big on teaching about the history or geography of the world, the emphasis is on Thai history, monarchy etc.

For decades it's been the conclusion of the education ministry that's it's not in the childrens best interests to learn about the outside world.
It's only in the last decade or so that they realised that there is an outside world.

Open a world atlas and ask any school child to point out Thailand and most would fail, ask them where another country is & you'll most likely get a blank look!

Ask about world history or events you might as well ask the brick wall.

Not just thailand,ever visited the usa?try buying a paper to keep abreast of overseas affairs.

[kingdong]

16 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Why should they mention that ?

Why indeed?

[Barry343]

3 hours ago, Creasy said:

Geography and history, especially foreign is not a strong suit of the Thais 

They are similar to the USA other than their own country they just don't care.

[Yme]

Aren't they Wehrmacht uniforms? Not necessarily Nazi. More important things to worry about. And as for Israeli feelings, let me ask a Palestinian what he thinks.

[sanemax]

1 minute ago, Yme said:

Aren't they Wehrmacht uniforms? Not necessarily Nazi. More important things to worry about. And as for Israeli feelings, let me ask a Palestinian what he thinks.

Go ahead, Palestinians are sided with Nazis with their quest to kill Jews  and thus the Palestinians will be in favour of the wearing of Nazi uniforms 

[Mark mark]

Should lock them up in a Concentration Camp, ... and then see how funny that they think that is ! ...

[dcnx]

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

The unfortunate truth is they have none nothing illegal in Thailand

Distaste to millions, but not illegal, I doubt many Thais of any generation would have knowledge of the holocaust

Heaven help any of us caught pointing our feet towards a Buddha statue. 
 

I can’t help but think of the outrage over the woman doing yoga at the temples here. The police tracked her down. 
 

These Thai clowns should be banned from ever leaving the country.

[Fairynuff]

7 minutes ago, Yme said:

Aren't they Wehrmacht uniforms? Not necessarily Nazi. More important things to worry about. And as for Israeli feelings, let me ask a Palestinian what he thinks.

So the Wehrmacht were not Nazis? I think your position is fairly clear

[roquefort]

1 minute ago, sanemax said:

That was a fancy dress party and he wore that uniform because he was ridiculed about his German heritage by his school friends 

Oh, that's alright then.