Thai History
I'll be visiting Thailand again in a few short months and realized that I did not know much about the history behind my experience. So this morning I decided to do a little digging into the history of Thailand.
Many people are getting plastic cosmetic surgery in Thailand and are not even aware of the rich culture they are immersed in. Other people are getting plastic surgery and find that there is a whole other world of exciting and amazing things waiting for them.
For example, not many know that the King of Thailand was actually born in California. And we all know the Governor of California was born in Austria.
How's that for irony! hahaha
Here's a quote I got from http://sunsite.au.ac.th/thailand/thai_his/origin.html
"Thailand (previously known as Siam) has been populated ever since the dawn of civilization in Asia. There are conflicting opinions of the origins of the Thais. It presumed that about 4,500 years. the Thais originated in northwestern Szechuan in China and later migrated down to Thailand along the southern part of China. They split into two main groups. One settled down in the North and became the kingdom of "Lan Na" and the other one is in further south, which afterward was defeated by the Khmers and became the kingdom of "Sukhothai".
However, the Thai history has been changed by the archaeological excavations in the village of Ban Chiang in the Nong Han District of Udon Thani province in the Northeast. From the evidence of bronze metallurgy, it now appears that the Thais might have originated here in Thailand and later scattered to various parts of Asia, including China.
The controversy over the origin of the Thais shows no sign of definite conclusion as many more theories have been put forward and some even go further to say that Thais were originally of Austronesian rather than Mongoloid. What the outcomes of the dispute may be, by the 13th century the Thais had already settled down within the southeast Asia."
Having been to Thailand myself I have seen the rich mixtures there. Infact I was able to blend in better there than I was able to in some parts of the USA.
Many people are getting plastic cosmetic surgery in Thailand and are not even aware of the rich culture they are immersed in. Other people are getting plastic surgery and find that there is a whole other world of exciting and amazing things waiting for them.
For example, not many know that the King of Thailand was actually born in California. And we all know the Governor of California was born in Austria.
How's that for irony! hahaha
Here's a quote I got from http://sunsite.au.ac.th/thailand/thai_his/origin.html
"Thailand (previously known as Siam) has been populated ever since the dawn of civilization in Asia. There are conflicting opinions of the origins of the Thais. It presumed that about 4,500 years. the Thais originated in northwestern Szechuan in China and later migrated down to Thailand along the southern part of China. They split into two main groups. One settled down in the North and became the kingdom of "Lan Na" and the other one is in further south, which afterward was defeated by the Khmers and became the kingdom of "Sukhothai".
However, the Thai history has been changed by the archaeological excavations in the village of Ban Chiang in the Nong Han District of Udon Thani province in the Northeast. From the evidence of bronze metallurgy, it now appears that the Thais might have originated here in Thailand and later scattered to various parts of Asia, including China.
The controversy over the origin of the Thais shows no sign of definite conclusion as many more theories have been put forward and some even go further to say that Thais were originally of Austronesian rather than Mongoloid. What the outcomes of the dispute may be, by the 13th century the Thais had already settled down within the southeast Asia."
Having been to Thailand myself I have seen the rich mixtures there. Infact I was able to blend in better there than I was able to in some parts of the USA.
posted by Enigma Valdez at 8:02 AM
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