...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...tainment, sold to consumers that are ever more perverted and detached from reality. The same products of the consciousness industry are marketed to al... ...rom somewhere other than Western countries. In the final analysis, what is reality both in Western countries and elsewhere? Which parts of Western cul... ...es and they are like summer cottages, holiday homes of the rich. We have a television set and the young people watch it, but I don't care to watch. So... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... country's Scouting movement, but problems arose both among organizers and participants. Asian girls were horrified by the behaviour of Western youngs... ...country's health authorities decided to dole out contraceptives to foreign participants.(38 Asian countries are fighting against the spread of Western...

...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...