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4.2. Flexibility and Corruption

Since the Thai are not principle oriented, and with the high value for personal relationships, they also appear not to be strictly law-oriented. In practice, principles and laws are ever-adjustable to fit persons and situations. In other words, laws are rules laid out in papers; but what is wrong or right depends not on the rules, but instead on who the person is or whom the person knows. A prominent Thai businessman ironically described this phenomenon in a seminar: 

We Thai are not a society of law; we are a society of relationship…. It is not what a person has done that’s wrong; it’s who he is…. If he is your cousin, or your friend, then what he has done is not wrong. But if another person does the same thing, and it’s somebody you don’t like, then what he has done is wrong…

Source: S. KOMIN, Psychology of the Thai People: Values and Behavioral Patterns. Bangkok, Research Center, National Institute of Development Administration.

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In Thailand, we have to pay both for a garbage man and the district where you live monthly! Beside the taxpayers’ money, Don’t we pay our taxes?? Corruption! Mafia!

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Is Thailand a developing or developed country?

Thailand is classified as a developing country. Majority of Thai
people work in agriculture sector. They hesitate to use the new
technology, because they are not familiar with it. In developed country, technologies are the indicator of economic and people’s wealth.

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New wind turbine sheds light on Hanoi’s slums.

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LIVE WIRES

Due to faulty infrastructure, many urban areas suffer from frequent
blackouts and power cuts, and the electrical grid often doesn’t serve
the people who need it most.

I’ve visited many cities filled
with tangled wires such as those in this photo from Thailand, where
people have illegally tapped into the grid on their own to get the power
they need—at great personal risk.

Bill Gates

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Update on the situations in France, Mexico and Colombia

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What makes art valuable   BBC Documentary