...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 ... ...onal, globalizing. In Asia, too, a common free trade area, ASEAN, is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European U... ... to live in. The dormitories are used by students who have come from other places. We have cleaner air here than downtown. Rents are even higher there... ...field? How do you feel about the advancing technology? That today, in many places, people are replaced by machines? Yes, we all think this way. We thi... ... plants like mango trees or fruit trees. One can only grow things on newly established teak plantations. So, just a year in each place, then the teak ... ...4 (www.chiangraiprovince.com.). 6. On Thailand Chinese e.g. Skinner 1951; 1957; 1958; 1964. Landon 1941. Coughlin 1960. Kiong – Bun 2001. 7. On vil... ...lienated from society, and no longer have a future in any case. In densely populated villages, deaths of ten people from Aids constitutes a rare cause... ...s is heritage from agrarian communities, having become polished in densely populated villages, where insulting one's fellow human beings was unaccepta...

...ge Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the 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 decad...