Culture of Thailand

Introduction: Culture shock is a term used to express the nervousness delivered when a man moves from a well known society to a totally different social or social environment than the one you used to live in. Anything can bother you, like any small things can make you feel so confused and upset very fast. Culture shock is not a disease, but it's a feeling that anyone could get if he moved to a new culture or a different culture than the culture he used to live in or than his family culture and…

Adaptation in Thailand” by Erik Cohen, we find that the people of Thailand actually were able to not assimilate fully to Christianity. In Thailand, a buddhist country, Christian Churches always played a much smaller role in their communities than their buddhist counterparts. Cohen says, “The Christian Churches in Thailand and their missionaries enjoyed the status of being tolerated, but not particularly welcome guests” (Cohen 31) This is quite different than what we saw in Andean culture, where…

societal variation, intercultural similarities and differences. This allows the researcher to make inference about Vietnam based on empirical findings obtained in other cultures in the same cluster (Gupta, Hanges & Dorfman, 2002). Four Southeast Asian countries adjacent to Vietnam score relatively low to medium on assertiveness, namely: Thailand (3.64), Malaysia (3.87), Indonesia (3.75) and Philippines (4.01)…

teaching someone about your culture and worldview is showing them where you come from and how that has affected you. The three items I would choose to represent these aspects of me would be a lei, a photo of my mother’s house in Laos, and a photograph of Pale Blue Dot. These three items provide a mixture of my personal history as well as an accurate depiction of who I am as a person. The lei represents my upbringing in Hawaii as well as my admiration of the Hawaiian culture. Unfortunately, I…

living surroundings, eating habits, religion and cultural background. Different cultures have their own special traditions, which can inherit from generation to generation and consciously or unconsciously affect individuals. These concepts deal with person’s physical, mental and spiritual belief. Every individual has their own heritage, and this is very different among different cultures (Spector 2009). According to Culture in Development website, Cultural heritage can influence people in…

Culture in an organization often stands to be the vision of an organization. It is to no surprise that in different organizations, the culture of each can vary from one to another. Without a solid or definitive culture, or even a culture that is firm, the organization often that not do not have an identity of its own. It will merely be just a profit chasing brand or label. Given that most companies largely have their own culture, often managers look to implement change or alter the culture of…

Schaefer. Moreover, I will in depth into each concept comic moment and discuss its relation to the readings and understanding of the concept. Lastly, I will conclude of my last comic moments and Refugee To begin, I was born in Thailand when my family took refuge in Thailand after fleeing…

example, the disappearance of Polynesian dances of Western Samoa and the limbo dancers of the Caribbean, as a result of a commodity of culture for financial purposes (Fletcher, 2008). As a result, traditional heritage and cultural events in local communities lose their value in tourism destinations. This is considered as an important negative influence on the culture caused by…

Priscilla, Zong Cultures were shared value systems of various groups. People adopted to their own culture by experiencing cultural constructions. During this period, their identity as a group member enhanced and gradually developed ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism made them feel familiar about their own culture and felt strange about other cultures. In my opinion, using native people’s own insight was one of the ways to make the strange familiar and avoid ethnocentrism. In northwest Thailand, a…

anthropologist whose largest and most important works were on the Balinese cockfights in Indonesia, and defined culture as a web of ideas expressed in symbols, that can have multiple meanings. Stanley Tambiah (1929-2014) was a Professor Emeritus at Harvard that formulated a performative approach to ritual, where every human action was a ‘performance’ and all performances were telling to the culture. Structure and communitas are the two main cornerstones to Victor Turner’s theory of symbols.…