The influential value system in Thailand which I decided to choose as the main topic of this report is, one of the most well-known Thai traditional festival, Songkran festival or Water Splashing festival. The reason why I chose this problem is that, despite Songkran festival is considered to be one of the main enjoyable Thai traditional custom promoting events which not only attract Thai people, but also foreign tourists to join. However, undeniably, it has the ethics-related issues in some perspectives which are quite questionable and need to be seriously concerned as well e.g. safety, accident, public nudity. Therefore, in my opinion, it would be interesting to discuss more about this festival in term of ethical aspect.
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(Life, 2010) It is Thai national holidays held between April 13th -15th. Thai people take this opportunity as celebration and broadly participate in many Songkran-related events held in nationwide such as water fight. Moreover, tourists are also welcomed to join. So, it wouldn’t be wrong to call this festival as one of main tourists’ attraction events. Next, this festival doesn’t concentrate on only splashing water. It’s also the auspicious occasion for families to spend time together and Buddhists to visit temples for making merits. (Thailand, 2014) Lastly, for Songkran, water is the symbol of cleaning. In the past, Thai people used water to gently soak in Buddha image. After that, they used this blessed water from cleaning Buddha image to sprinkle to other people as they believed it will be auspicious and bring good fortune to them. (OfficeHolidays, 2014) On the other words, since the past, water means the purification both for one’s mind and …show more content…
Songkran Festival is traditional Thai celebration which reflects Thai people’s belief, the way they respect each other, and, definitely, exquisite Thai culture. It promotes the warm relationship in many perspectives. In family bonding perspective, this festival encourages Thai people to go visiting their elder relatives, pay respect to them, and spend quality time together. Next, in terms of religious aspect, Songkran festival represents the auspicious time to go making merits and visit temples. In temples, there will be events where Buddhist villagers could come gathering together and celebrate this festival for Buddha’s honour by creating sand pagodas known as ‘Phra Chedi Sai’ decorating with colourful flags. (Vater,
Rituals are held as a very important part of any society, including ours. They go back to ancient times or can be as simple as maintaining one’s hygiene. Non-western societies have rituals that may seem very foreign to us, but they have been engrained in their communities and are essential to their social structure. This interpretation will focus on the Great Pilgrimage, a ritual performed by Quechuan communities. We will be looking specifically at a community in the area of Sonqo.
Vietnamese festival for celebrating the lunar New Year. On the first day of the festival,
Every society has its own views on how the consumption of alcohol should be handled and regulated. Their differences create a trickle effect of how it is used, and is distinctive to that culture or society. Many cultures drinking habits go hand in hand with religion, and social customs. Drinking alcohol is in many cases a part of extensive learned tradition, where people pride themselves with their ability to hold their liquor. In countries where alcohol is part of the “norm”, the outcomes of drinking habits or the effects of alcohol are much different, “A population that drinks daily may have a high rate of cirrhosis and other medical problems but few accidents, fights, homicides, or other violent alcohol-associated conflicts; a population with predominantly binge drinking shows the opposite complex of drinking problems”#. It has been observed that cultures with rich traditions and acceptance of alcohol use tend to deal less with the typical alcohol related problems, compared to the cultures who treat alcohol as an escape or something that will make them better in the eyes of others. In these societies, like the U.S. alcohol hasn’t always been present and grown to be...
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What is the Thailand Tiger Temple? The Thailand Tiger Temple is located in Thailand and was founded in 1994 as a forest temple and a sanctuary for wild animals including tigers. The tiger temple has Bengal tigers and hybrid breeds. They received its first tiger cub in 1999 and now they have 137 tigers as of 2016. Visitors are charged about $16 or more if they decide to pet or feed the tigers. 137 tigers from the tiger temple were seized and transferred to animal refuges. This reason being is because the monks who run the temple have been accused of animal abuse, drugging, trafficking into the illegal wildlife trade and the disappearance of three tigers. Former workers said the tigers were beaten. Not well fed, in need of veterinary care and
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...f Thai people overheard this kind of message they will be shame, because Thailand was symbolize as “ The Land Of Smile”, even though it name after this, the racist in Thailand keep coming and will eventually change the foreigners mind to not attempt to come here again, and that will effects the decline economics and income through Thailand.
For my site visit reflection paper, I decided to visit the Thai Buddhist Temple in Homestead. The reason this particular site was my choice was because information acquired from the videos in lecture about tradition and Confucianism in Asia made me curious to learn more about the Buddhist way of life. Because so many South Eastern countries instantaneously adopted Buddhism from India and then China with open arms, I decided to make the visit in the morning to learn the reasons for the international success of this way of life. This would give me a more interactive comprehension of Buddhism.
My ethnic group is Korean and American. Koreans use two calendars. A Western calendar and a lunar calendar. The New Years is also a big thing for the Koreans. Unlike Americans, Koreans visits the older person in the family and pays him or her with respect. Then there is another Lunar New Years holiday. It makes all the kids happy because they get money on that day. What they would normally wear is a Hanbok. What a hanbok is a dress or pants that have no pocks and has vibrant colors. It is sometimes used in weddings. It is where the husband and the wife have to wear one. You have to wear it during the second part of the wedding. During the second part of the wedding you have to drink Soju. What Soju is, is that it is a type of Korean alcohol
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A statue of Luang Pho Chaem, alongside one of Luang Pho Chuang can be seen in the wat's main hall. Many Buddhist Thais go there to stick gold leaf to these images as a part of paying respect to the two famed abbots.
We talked about the first type which is the economic effect on the local community and the second type that is the social effect on the host community. In this part of our essay we will represent the last kind of effect on the local community by tourism. It is the environment effect on the local community. Tourism has positive and negative aspects in term of its impact on the host community. First point, tourism can help to protect the environment through reinvest some of profits, that generated by tourism, to the preservation of local environment and make it popular destination for holidays. However, it can cause pollution and damage in the environment through overuse of natural resources, such as water supply, beaches and coral reef. It also account for increased pollution through traffic emissions and littering. Additionally, tourist accommodations in general dump waste and sewage into seas and rivers. Second point, it might reduce some problems such as over-fishing by creating another source of employment. According to Tourism Concern, tourism account for more than eight per cent of jobs in the world wide and there are approximately two hundred million people work in the tourism sector on all sides of the world. (Tourism Concern, 2004). As a result a lot of people will abandon works in fishing and deforestations and tend to works in tourism industrialization. On the adverse side, it can harm the environment through polish off grass cover, harmful to wildlife and forests and grave local habitats. (BBC,
The topic that I will be discussing is Thai culture. In this, it will include areas that influence this culture. First, I will give you the geographical information of the country of Thailand. The second area that I will look at will be language. Language is an extremely important part of culture and some say that one cannot be found without the other. After that I will inform you about customs, traditions and taboos in Thai culture. This is a very important part of culture and is what shows the differences between cultures. Then I briefly tell you about the government and some national symbols, such as the flag, the symbol, colors, anthem, dress, and national day. Next, I will explain about religion in Thailand. In most cultures there is religion, but in Thailand it is interwoven into its whole culture and it is hard to separate the two. One other thing that I will include in this paper is a link to a page with pictures from my trip to Thailand.
Every country in the world has its own festival and celebration. People all around the world love joining together and sharing good time through the festivals and celebrations. Festivals are great way to experience local culture. Sometime they even offer a glimpse into past. There are hundreds of festivals across the world. So are you ready to experience of fun and colorful festivals? Below are some of festivals from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
A feature that is similar to that of the Zulu culture mentioned previously is that of concept of lobola or as the Thai people call it the son sod, the Thai version of the dowry (Schriever, 2015: < www.beachrepublic.com >). Buddhist monks are usually invited to attend and come in odd numbers, as odd numbers are considered lucky in Thailand, they normally arrive in numbers of 3, 5, 7 or 9 but never more than 9 (Schriever, 2015: < www.beachrepublic.com >). Schriever (2015), writes