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第一章 泰国文化

这项研究之初，我计划将最后的一章分为两个部分,一个部分详细说明所有关于泰国佛教根源的知识,另一个重点凸显印度教的影响。由于佛教文化影响的唯一性和有限性，这个想法已经被作者抛弃了。泰国文化包括很多方面,并与其他国家如中国、老挝等有或多或少的联系和文化元素交集，我将尽可能选择佛教和印度教局限性和影响力进行比较。这项研究将集中佛教和印度教在细节方面的影响，并分析国家所受影响程度的高低。

我随机采访了一些人，让他们列出20件事，这些事必须是他们认为有关泰国文化传播和影响的，或者他们认为的可能被外国游客所欣赏的国家标志性特点和文化。从他们所给出的答案可以看出，这些答案是不同的(有时是关于有趣的语言)。根据字母顺序排列做出一个列表，我列出了最常见的答案列表。

CHAPTER 1 Thai Culture

At the outset of this study I had intended to have two sections in the final chapter, one section detailing the Buddhist roots of all things Thai and the other showing Hindu / Indic influence. This idea has been abandoned by the author due to the limited 'solely' Buddhist influence. There are many aspects of Thai culture that have combined elements of other countries such as China, Laos etc but I have chosen to limit the comparisons to Buddhist / Hindu wherever possible. The study will instead focus on detailing the aspects of influence and state whether they have a combined influence or whether they have been influenced by only one of the subjects.

I asked them to make a list of 20 things that they considered to be Thai or that which they thought might be perceived by foreign visitors as representative of their country and culture. The answers were varied (and, at times amusing due to language) and from the answers they gave I have composed a list of the results. (shown on next page).

The list has been arranged alphabetically and I have limited the list to the most common answers. The list may have been influenced by regional representation as many of the people gave regional answers such as Isan, or the rocket festival. The answers were unprompted by the author and I feel that the list is accurate for the purpose of this study.

Sukhothai Kingdom

The discerning reader will note that Hinduism is absent from the list. This was a little surprising to the author as I had distributed approx two hundred surveys and had about 60% returned completed and not a single reply had Hinduism or Brahmanism as an answer. Buddhism was on every single list returned to me and that was not in the least surprising.

I had not thought to make my own list prior to asking the Thai people their opinion and I think this was a mistake or rather an oversight on my part. I am unable to remember exactly what I conceived of as 'Thai-ness', but the Thai smile and the Wai greeting would definitely have been included in any list. Westerners who visit the Kingdom generally know in advance about the Kingdoms Buddhist temples and the friendliness of the people. The Thai language appears to be very difficult for the average foreigner / westerner to master and for that reason I have chosen to begin my analyses by looking at the Thai Language / Thai Script.

There was obviously a Thai language long before there was a written Script. By far the most interesting thing about the Thai script is that it was 'invented' by a Thai king ! Not many countries can make such a claim, but is there any basis to the claim which is widely accepted by the majority of the Thai people? 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。