From: scollins@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Suppasak Collins)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asian.american,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Dominant American culture/Lack of Native Pride?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 16:01:05 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <1992Nov5.082437.6258@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>In article <1d9smgINNqrl@bigboote.WPI.EDU> scollins@wpi.WPI.EDU
>(Suppasak Collins) writes:
>>Americans aren't the only ones who view their culture as the dominant culture.
>>Thailand and I'm sure most other Asian countries perceive this to be true as 
>>well.  In Thailand, anything American is assumed to be superior.  There is
>>much to be said about the issue of rejecting your own culture to accect
>>foreign >ones.  As a Thai, this disturbs me very much.  Seems like everyone
>>wants to be American in every way and assimilate.
>
>Really?
>
>Then, I presume that Mr. Collins favors, in addition to "restoration"
>of Thai culture among assimilated Thai-Americans, the "restoration" of
>Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, and Homo Erectus culture.  If it is a horror
>that Thai-Americans have abandoned "their" culture, then it should
>be an equal horror that prehistoric man's culture has been abandoned.
>After all we did "come" from prehistoric man, just like Thai-Americans have
>come from Thais (from Thailand).
>
>I understand that many Chinese-cu think just like Mr. Collins.

Hmm.. an interesting analogy, but not quite.  I do not suggest "restoration"
of culture.  I'm talking about being proud of your background and culture, 
is there anything wrong with that?  My posting addresses those who refuse to
recognize or are somehow ashmed of their culture--therefore rejecting a part 
of themselves.  This is mentally and spiritually unhealthy.  

Know where you came from, be proud of your culture, but don't let it restrict
your freedom.  Many people are not tied down by their culture, they just 
reject them entirely.   

..stuff deleted ..

>This post reminds me of that Thai twit who was photographed in the
>Economist, holding a placard condemning Japan for investing in Thailand.
>By the way, the Thai twit was attending a university in Bangkok.
OB>
>For those of you who aren't away, Japan singledhandedly created
>the Thai middle class that forced the the recent military gov't to step
>down to allow democratic elections.  Japanese investment in Thailand
>have done vastly more for the Thai economy than all the funds raised
>by illegal drug smuggling from China.

Well, there are different interpretations of facts.
Do you seriously think that Thai middle class = Japanese creation??
That's a pretty bold statement to make.

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