‘Democracy leads to inequality,’ says government textbook, sparking public outrage over potential propaganda

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By Natcha Patanasophon

 

A member of the Nonthaburi Progressive Movement said on Friday that the Thai government should drive education forward instead of using propaganda in textbooks for children.

 

On Thursday, Ubon Ratchathani University lecturer, Titipol Phakdeewanich, posted a photo of a social science textbook for secondary school children that appears to be intentionally undermining democracy. The government textbook has since gone viral.

“Democracy leads to income and social inequality,” the book reads in a section on western democracies.  “Democratic elections are highlighted as a big financial burden on the country.”

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/37660/democracy-leads-to-inequality-says-government-textbook-sparking-public-outrage-over-potential-propaganda/

 

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[ChaiyaTH]

Guess that explains Thailand being a global leader in inequality + lacking democracy. With it being a big financial burden to the country, the word country means elite.

[ThailandRyan]

Looks like those in power want a one way Dictatorial street where they say jump and you jump, they say run and you run.  Do not talk back just do as your told you measly peasants........

[NanaSomchai]

I'm exhausted of being right every single time;

 

If you've read me on several other topics across these forums, I made it very clear that Thai pupils attending schools were being brainwashed by very selective training at hating foreigners by creating a false sense of superiority, denouncing human rights, rejecting democracy, promoting nepotism again and again.

 

If you all still needed a proof, there you have it.

 

I'd hate to say it again, yet here we are again; "Told you so".

 

Thailand brainwashing it's children, one generation at a time.

 

This Kingdom is going backwards.

[ChaiyaTH]

12 minutes ago, NanaSomchai said:

Thailand brainwashing it's children, one generation at a time.

That's why the current administration wants to make it for at least 20 years, that is enough to brainwash a generation. The previous one became awake and modern, or was on the way at least, so was Thailand. 

 

It is working very well too, even many openly show their discontent, they listen to them (out of fear). The question is what the point is though, all those dinosaurs are dead by then.

 

For Thais saying they love their country and people so much, reality shows little of that.

[Geoffggi]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Looks like those in power want a one way Dictatorial street where they say jump and you jump, they say run and you run.  Do not talk back just do as your told you measly peasants........

Correct, the government will be handing out little red books next

[candide]

The good side of it is that, the Thai education system being inefficient, pupils will likely not learn that either.

[peter zwart]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Looks like those in power want a one way Dictatorial street where they say jump and you jump, they say run and you run.  Do not talk back just do as your told you measly peasants........

That may be worked 30 years ago before people used internet and didnt had excess to more info then that their government gave. 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Guess that explains Thailand being a global leader in inequality + lacking democracy. With it being a big financial burden to the country, the word country means elite.

17+ years of indoctrination then become a submissive worker to keep the elite at the top table.

The elite of this country strive to maintain the inequality both in income and social status.

 

[ChaiyaTH]

Just now, hotchilli said:

17+ years of indoctrination then become a submissive worker to keep the elite at the top table.

The elite of this country strive to maintain the inequality both in income and social status.

 

Of course, they know there is only like 35 million Thais left in 2 decades and the goal is to just keep enough peasants as needed to continue Thailand together with their Thailand 4.0 AI and robots. With a bit luck they plan to wipe out even more people before that time.

[RJRS1301]

The inequality they refer to is the fear that they (the ruking class) may have little less.

They seem to believe that by  assisting people towards equality, and good governance, they will loose out.

How many billionaires are in this government compared to other countries?

 

 

[Paul Henry]

There is no such thing as equality. All people are different. Even in the days of strong communism or socialism we saw that there was and is no equality. The rich get richer, the poor stay poor the intelligent strive for education, success and self improvement.

[wombat]

3 hours ago, NanaSomchai said:

 

 

This Kingdom is going backwards.

Or fwd depending on agenda?

[HappyExpat57]

Thank goodness the students never pay attention to any of their lessons.

[Card]

Obviously the book is a translation from Chinese.

[RichardColeman]

Excellent, another page for me to provide to the courts for my 5 year old daughter to claim asylum in the UK !

[spidermike007]

Incorrect. Prayuth leads to inequality. Plain and simple. Fovortism toward cronies and decimation of the economy created unemployment and suffering. He must go. 

[BangkokReady]

4 hours ago, NanaSomchai said:

I'm exhausted of being right every single time;

 

If you've read me on several other topics across these forums, I made it very clear that Thai pupils attending schools were being brainwashed by very selective training at hating foreigners by creating a false sense of superiority, denouncing human rights, rejecting democracy, promoting nepotism again and again.

 

If you all still needed a proof, there you have it.

 

I'd hate to say it again, yet here we are again; "Told you so".

 

Thailand brainwashing it's children, one generation at a time.

 

This Kingdom is going backwards.

Everyone knows this already.  You are not a sooth sayer.

[mtls2005]

Color me shocked that someone actually read this "book".

 

Yeah, this is a feature of the thai edumacation system, which while failing students is meant to keep the commoners in line.

 

It's all about that great toothpaste spill of 1932. Nearly all cleaned up.

 

 

That page isn't so bad, the Advantages column is reasonable, and there are disadvantages, particularly how it can be corrupted by those in power. But someone struggled to come up with Disadvantages conducive to the messages one often hears about "thai-style democrazy".

 

As those in power here often utter, thais just can't handle too much democracy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[herfiehandbag]

3 hours ago, candide said:

The good side of it is that, the Thai education system being inefficient, pupils will likely not learn that either.

Yes. The system relies almost exclusively on multiple choice examinations. Pupils are taught the correct answers by rote, within a few days of delivering those answers they are forgotten.

 

The education and examination system which I and most westerners went through taught and examined an ability to learn facts yes, but then also required, at least at M4 - M6 level (A level in the UK) an ability to marshal those facts and use them to form and support an argument ( an essay). That simply does not feature in the Thai education system, certainly at secondary schools. It may at university, I don't know.

 

This does happen in "social media". It seems to be consumed voraciously by Thai youth, and so I suspect that brainwashing teenagers has limited effect.

 

As so often, once the cat is out of the bag...

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Excellent, another page for me to provide to the courts for my 5 year old daughter to claim asylum in the UK !

One definition of "asylum"

 

"an institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally ill"

 

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=asylum+meaning&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[wwest5829]

Pondering … I am thinking that on reflection there is an appeal for far too many in being supplied with a government which provides peace and security … steadiness, known societal rules. I made the observation, not too long age, concerning the outlook of John Locke versus Thomas Hobbes. In a nut shell … Hobbes thought that mankind, living in a state of nature must have found life to be short, nasty and brutish. Thus, mankind gave up their “natural rights” in return for a government supplying the peace and security (as long as this was provided you had no right to rebel). Locke on the other hand felt life in the original state of nature was probably OK, because people are good at base level. Still, humankind found that their natural rights could be better extended through working together through a government form (we kept our natural rights and had the right to institute new government). I maintain the argument is very much still with us. China’s government model holds a certain appeal in peace and security (for most westerners, at too great a cost to individual freedoms). On the other hand the current US model is most certainly coming up short in providing a societal balance for its citizens … I hasten to point out that the western model is more successfully in evidence where a better societal balance is observed. The other concern I have is the increasing government control over the individual even in many western “democracies” … again, perhaps a pointing toward the Chinese model appeal for the future. Never happen in the US? Does not need to be a Chinese one party system … could be the corporate model. Your thoughts?

[RJRS1301]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Incorrect. Prayuth leads to inequality. Plain and simple. Fovortism toward cronies and decimation of the economy created unemployment and suffering. He must go. 

Has lead to GREATER inequality which was already appallingly obvious before the takeover

[Eric Loh]

Sobering to read that states designed their education system to curtail, cancel or influence young minds to suit their political agenda. 

[Eric Loh]

1 hour ago, wwest5829 said:

Pondering … I am thinking that on reflection there is an appeal for far too many in being supplied with a government which provides peace and security … steadiness, known societal rules. I made the observation, not too long age, concerning the outlook of John Locke versus Thomas Hobbes. In a nut shell … Hobbes thought that mankind, living in a state of nature must have found life to be short, nasty and brutish. Thus, mankind gave up their “natural rights” in return for a government supplying the peace and security (as long as this was provided you had no right to rebel). Locke on the other hand felt life in the original state of nature was probably OK, because people are good at base level. Still, humankind found that their natural rights could be better extended through working together through a government form (we kept our natural rights and had the right to institute new government). I maintain the argument is very much still with us. China’s government model holds a certain appeal in peace and security (for most westerners, at too great a cost to individual freedoms). On the other hand the current US model is most certainly coming up short in providing a societal balance for its citizens … I hasten to point out that the western model is more successfully in evidence where a better societal balance is observed. The other concern I have is the increasing government control over the individual even in many western “democracies” … again, perhaps a pointing toward the Chinese model appeal for the future. Never happen in the US? Does not need to be a Chinese one party system … could be the corporate model. Your thoughts?

Refreshing thoughts. Personally I viewed the social democracy system score well in terms of participation and narrowing the income inequality. 

[Artisi]

6 hours ago, NanaSomchai said:

I'm exhausted of being right every single time;

 

If you've read me on several other topics across these forums, I made it very clear that Thai pupils attending schools were being brainwashed by very selective training at hating foreigners by creating a false sense of superiority, denouncing human rights, rejecting democracy, promoting nepotism again and again.

 

If you all still needed a proof, there you have it.

 

I'd hate to say it again, yet here we are again; "Told you so".

 

Thailand brainwashing it's children, one generation at a time.

 

This Kingdom is going backwards.

Of course the question is, how far back can they go? 

[Artisi]

19 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Sobering to read that states designed their education system to curtail, cancel or influence young minds to suit their political agenda. 

Surely it's just a mis-understanding ????

[Misterwhisper]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

“Democracy leads to income and social inequality,”

And feudalism doesn't?

 

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Excellent, another page for me to provide to the courts for my 5 year old daughter to claim asylum in the UK !

Which dingy will she be on? 

 

I'm expecting a Somalian friend on the 3:25pm to Dover this afternoon.  

[Artisi]

14 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

And feudalism doesn't?

 

 

Not Thai fuedalism, it's like Thai electrics and plumbing - it's different to the rest of the world.