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Inter-National Anthems — Bangkok, Thailand

Source: Travel Pod

Nov 07, 2009

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Bangkok, Thailand

I think that where a country decides to play its national anthem can teach you something about how the people of a country, or their government thinks its people, spend their time. Take America for example, the national anthem is (dare I say) almost exclusively played at sporting events. And why not, when they are packed with ten to fifty thousand people at a time. In India, where the the Bollywood craze just squeaks past Hollywood fanaticism, movie goers stand before their weekly flick to belt out their Indian pride.

Today (written in the present tense at the time) I thought I was learning something about the Thai people when I was sweating it out amongst the jambed packed stalls of the Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok. Sometime after the sun had sunk in the sky and the weather had cooled, I was paying 4 Bhat for a homemade CocaCola popsicle when I noticed the most eerie thing. Everyone around me had stopped moving and talking. It was as if I ...Read the full article

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