youtube.com, global challenge to the Thai culture

What a challenge it has been for the divine status of the Thai monarchy!

From the Jufer case, the first non-Thai to face prison sentence due to Les-Majeste law, to the blocking of youtube.com.

I'm the big fan of youtube.com, so I followed the news regarding the matters closely.

What I feel is, certainly, the Thai culture has faced the challenges from globalization. Thai culture cannot be viewed as homogenous, unity, bounded. It's more like a continue dialouge between the spread of the global culture and the pre-existing Thai culture.

We have to accept that, up to this point, all the aspect of any culture have to face challenges from different perspectives.

The important question is, therefore, how should we react to any challenge from the global (or, perhaps, Western) cultures that don't hold the same perspective as us.

Much of the Thai government and the Thai elites in the past decided to dealt with the spread of global challenges by "censorship". We must not forget that one there were many books that were perceived as a threat to nation burned.

Now, facing the recent challenges, the Thai government moved to block the website. In my opinion, the block is, however, such an outdated solution to the problem. It only resulted more in curiuosity, and only provoke more challenges.

Thai elite and government should, perhaps, start to realize that "you cannot close people's eyes, ears, and shut people's mouths forever!".

Non-sense

Hi guys,

Since I've an exams coming up, I have decided to randomly waste my time writing things up on my blog again. Before I decided to write this post, I have found that much of the blogs that I have normally visited have been very inactive lately. C'mon guys, I need to read some of your story, update your blog. Well, if you aren't going to update them, let me do mine first.

What a hell boring life I'm having at the moment. I have nothing to do apart from reading for my qualifying exams. The weather has been nice last week (when weather is nice in England, that really means a lot), but I didn't do anything apart from lving in the library. Sometime I talked to myself, "what da hell am I doing here in the library when the skies are so blue".

My second term here has been much better than the first term. The English problem has been overcome, not completely, but to some extent. My social life is better, I got to know more people. And I found housemaids for next year from my course, a bunch of nice european people. My academic performance has also been better, part of it due to an improvement in my English. However, it's still far from reaching a satisfied level.

I'll keep on updating you guys with some more non-sense post in the near future.