Voranai vanijaka biography sample

Is Thainess, the apparent secularity of it, exploited so that people feel insular and have certain opinions? We are of the same species; the only difference is one goes to massage parlors and one goes to go go bars, but for the same reason. East may be east. West may be west. But humans are humans. A question often asked: Can foreigners understand Thainess?

Was there a transformation in your own life, a kind of metamorphosis, when you became more enlightened to say some of the inequities in the world? When did that happen? When I was about 8 years old, attending an elementary school in Thailand. After school, the soi in front would be lined with street vendors. All the kids would flock to buy the goodies.

There was always this one beggar, a grandma of indeterminable age, sitting by the fence, frail, thin and sickly. Every day I gave her some money. All the while most everyone else, teachers or students, adults or children barely ever notice her. That apathy is what is wrong with the world. I interviewed Joei Weerasethakul after he won the Cannes award.

He told me that there are things in Thailand, such as censorship issues, that bother him tremendously, but it is the fact that there is so much to criticize, apropos social conventions, that gives him so much will to be an artist. Is your job more enjoyable than it is frustrating? Well, there is certain satisfaction to stand up and tell it like it is, against the odds and convention.

If you see a newspaper with an arrested man sitting in front of 5 smiling policeman — the man was found with amphetamine pills, what is your reaction, what might be your reaction to this scene? If the picture also has a powerful drug kingpin with strong political, police and military connections — or who is himself an MP or a general — then I might get excited.

Are we still living in a country and big people and small people.

Voranai vanijaka biography sample

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