Thai claim to dance draws ire

[geovalin]

Sen David

A push by Thailand to preserve traditional masked dance on the UNESCO cultural heritage listing has drawn an angry online backlash from many Cambodians who claim the dance belongs to Khmer culture.

According to the Bangkok Post, Thailand has proposed including the dance on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list, which aims to preserve practices, instruments and skills of cultures and traditions.

Cambodia’s Lakorn Khol is a dance-drama based on the Reamker – the Cambodian poem in turn based on Sanskrit’s Ramayana epic – and the Thai Royal Khon is believed to have stemmed from the Cambodian version.

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[Lannig]

Another futile reason for more border shootings by obtuse leaders?

[thai3]

Most of Thai culture is nicked from others, muay Thai, morlam and even khon.

[mike2011]

Maybe they can get Pattaya registered as a world heritage site. Unique it is, international significance, and very Thai.

[tandor]

Most of Thai culture is nicked from others, muay Thai, morlam and even khon.

...another scale model coming up.

[Redline]

Even the Thai experts don't do their research. Or, they are trying to get away with something?

[sanukjim]

Maybe they can get Pattaya registered as a world heritage site. Unique it is, international significance, and very Thai.

Na because when The Air America boys out of Udorn started going here in the early 1960s then The American G.I.s in the late 1960s they set Pattaya up as a mixture of Gate Two Street in Okinawa and Angeles City bar area from the main Gate area of Clark Field..So very outside infulence all the way.

[chickenslegs]

I heard they are also claiming the Macarena...

Edited June 7, 2016 by chickenslegs

[SOTIRIOS]

...sadly typical isn't it......

....rap and break dancing were invented here as well.....don't you know....

...by the time a phenomenon circles the globe for decades....or centuries....and ends up here....it's..... "New"....

[arrowsdawdle]

Most of Thai culture is nicked from others, muay Thai, morlam and even khon.

Sakdina? Kids for sale? Fish slaves?

[arrowsdawdle]

I heard they are also claiming the Macarena...