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The meaning of integrity in Thai society

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Oxford Dictionaries defines integrity as "the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles". In essence, a person with integrity is a person who puts principles first.

This goes strongly against the deeply ingrained culture of 'relationships are more important than what is right'. Thais put relationships first. In Thailand, if you want to know who your true friends are, call them at 3 a.m. and tell them you accidentally killed someone and would they please come over and help you dispose of the body. Your true friends will come over and you not-so-true friends will decline. Loyalty is far more important in Thai culture than any notion of what is the 'moral' thing to do.

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    "Eventually he confessed that there was no Thai word for it. That might explain, he quipped, why there are so few men with integrity in Thai society." spot on ....

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    Such words fall on deaf ears in the Land of Sham. I'd take a reasonably sized bet that if we left and came back in 20 years things would still be pretty much the same as they are now because sheer gr

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    "Integrity.. " I shat my pants laughing.. The only way they can come close to integral is in the calculus books.. if they ever make it that far..

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