Government Campaign For National Anthem To Be Sung Across The Country

[Chunkton]

The government will encourage the Thai people in all provinces to come out to sing the National Anthem at 6 pm every day until 5 Dec to promote unity and patriotism. The events will be broadcast live from each province, starting with Krabi.

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Prachatai

[KevinBloodyWilson]

Exactly how many carefully orchestrated spontaneous loyalty events will there be?

[Jingthing]

Oh Goody. Another benefit of being a Feh-rang.

[jasreeve17]

According to the article the national anthem will be used to bridge political divides.

Silly me, I thought, well history seemed to inform me, that nationalism was used as a big hitting weapon by divisive and power crazed politicians...

[TheWalkingMan]

Seems like an awful lot of time is spent by the government bigwigs dreaming up ways for the locals to show unity/patriotism. A better suggestion would have been for the bigwigs to encourage reading a book a week or something like that.

I grabbed the below from another website...

Listen to Thais who say: "This kind of thing is all very well but it doesn't do anything for me, it doesn't make me feel any different because ultimately it doesn't change anything."

TheWalkingMan

[mahtin]

Simon says everybody freeze until the music stops.

[elkangorito]

Nationalism is a disease.

The cure is to ask the question, "WHY"!

The rich & powerful are so afraid of this word, they will do anything to keep it from being said.

Wakeup Thailand & ask "WHY" about everything...& while you're at it, stop all this nonsense about anthems etc.

Key "nasty" words to remember - morality, unity, patriotism & pride.

Have a nice day & flame on

[smokie36]

Nationalism is a disease.

The cure is to ask the question, "WHY"!

The rich & powerful are so afraid of this word, they will do anything to keep it from being said.

Wakeup Thailand & ask "WHY" about everything...& while you're at it, stop all this nonsense about anthems etc.

Key "nasty" words to remember - morality, unity, patriotism & pride.

Have a nice day & flame on

You forgot to mention religion.

[yabaaaa]

The government will encourage the Thai people in all provinces to come out to sing the National Anthem at 6 pm every day until 5 Dec to promote unity and patriotism. The events will be broadcast live from each province, starting with Krabi.

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Prachatai

Repeat after me "I am a sheep" baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa translates well in Thai and English

[tuky]

Hmm, isn't this already in effect anyway?

TV, Moo Baan Speaker systems, Krung Thep etc etc....

Ok, I just scrolled back up to make sure this wasn't a thread from several years ago. And it appears to be recent.

Ok, well life goes on as usual, nothing has changed.

ho hum