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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...psychiatric drugs and alcohol. Human environment contains ever more risks, security systems, iron fencing. In cities, almost half of all marriages end... ... committed by juveniles; blind destruction, as if killing was just play, a computer game, or a unique, exciting, extreme experience. A final experienc... ...essly rolling production process. Delocal culture consists of centralizing organizations, technosystems controlling various areas of life, that everyw... ...dministrative structures: central administration, central offices, central organizations, central stores, central schools, shopping centres, cultural ... ...ational culture - metropolitan structures - central administration central organizations (corporations) - municipal centres - operational centres - st... ...ge immediate and extended family and kinship group was a social power and security for the future. On the plain, the surrounding mountains circle t... ...just the occasional driver and building labourer or night Phat Chaivanna security guard. Today, there are very few people in the village making a li... ...day, artisans do not sit at workbenches, but on the floor. When I bought a computer in a shop, it, too, was assembled on the floor of the shop. At fir... ...vided in the villages. Villagers did not yet have mobile phones. There are computers in schools, and the government considers it important that young ...

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