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Traveling through Thailand was expectational. Great sites but also experience an interesting culture. One of the big culture characteristics that shocked me will in Thailand is that they see being white or whiteness as a symbol of beauty and of higher status. To have darker skin means lower status because most of these people work in the fields on farms etc. While people with lighter skin have the more upper class jobs etc. Their culture has developed this way of thinking because they associate wealth with the western part of the world, so they want become more like them, so become paler. This way of thinking was also the way of thinking of Westerners during the 18th and early 19th century. Nowadays we Westerners we are obsessed with tanning and not being pale. It was interesting to see many Thai people walking around with umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun. If I went to live in Thailand I would be a billionaire because I'm so pale. Heck ya!
Traveling through Thailand was expectational. Great sites but also experience an interesting culture. One of the big culture characteristics that shocked me will in Thailand is that they see being white or whiteness as a symbol of beauty and of higher status. To have darker skin means lower status because most of these people work in the fields on farms etc. While people with lighter skin have the more upper class jobs etc. Their culture has developed this way of thinking because they associate wealth with the western part of the world, so they want become more like them, so become paler. This way of thinking was also the way of thinking of Westerners during the 18th and early 19th century. Nowadays we Westerners we are obsessed with tanning and not being pale. It was interesting to see many Thai people walking around with umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun. If I went to live in Thailand I would be a billionaire because I'm so pale. Heck ya!
Another culture characteristics that I found unique was that Thai people wash their clothes. They wash tops, jumpers, sweatshirts etc. separate from their underwear, pants and trousers. They do this separate because of their Buddhist religious background. They believe that the top part of the body is sacred while the bottom part of the body is unclean. They do not associate them in any form of washing. This i found strange but also unique.
Here is a clip on Thailand's culture on washing:
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