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Drinking place in Chiang Mai Benefits of Globalization To World Positive and Negative Impact of Modernity and Education : A Comparative study between "Diary of Buageaw" and "Luk E Sarn"
Drinking Place in Chiang Mai Back to top As we know that Thailand ranks the fifth-drunkest country in the world therefore there are a lot of drinking places in Thailand including Chiang mai, a popular toruist province. In Chiang mai there are many styles of drinking places for various types of people providing service both day and night. As to day time, there are natural places such as damns, waterfalls, swamp, etc. There are restaurants around those places. The favorite kind of foods usually are eastern foods such as sticky rice, grilled chicken and Somtam. In holiday, people usually come with friend to visit natural places and drink. Moreover, even in the official working time(12.00-6.00 pm),we can still see many people coming to drink and drink. Some girls dress in student uniform to drink. There are also many restaurant with karaoke service during day time for drinking and many people come. At night, there are numerous drinking places around Chiang mai in urban and rural areas. As we drive along the street we will see many small corners that people gathering to drink. You cannot miss it wherever you go even you drive near universities or temples. For young people, they usually go to Nimanhamin Road that has a lot of drinking places. The popular places are Monkey club and Warm up. There will be drinking section where people can order foods and dancing section where people enjoy listening to lound music(usually Hiphop) and dance. Alcohol consumption among adolescents has increased following cuasing problem in making decision (http://intraserver.nurse.cmu.ac.th )and alcohol addiction. There has been a poilicy to ban alcolhol advertisement but it does not work well as we still cleary see numerous people drinking days and nights. There are other factors which are more powerful than advertsiement such as friend's pursuation, or having one's own problem with no better solution. We generally know that Chiang mai people have easy-going personality therefore it could easily turn them to play and drink beucase they expect life to be fun and not serious. The solution of this problem seems to be far and far away if people care more about making Chiang mai a tourist place with more and more drinking places instead of caring the number of alcoholic people. Benefits of Globalization To World Back to top Globalization greatly improves economic all around the world. Globalization raises the productivity and living standards of people in countries that open themselves to the global market place. For less developed countries, globalization offers access to foreign capital, global export markets, and advanced technology while breaking the monopoly of inefficient and protected domestic producers. Faster growth, in turn, promotes poverty reduction, democratization, and higher labor and environmental standards(http://www.freetrade.org/issues/globalization.html) As to Thailand, Globalization also plays important role. It makes Thailand stands as the world No.1 exporter of rice and natural rubber, and the leading exporter of chicken meat, shrimp, sugar, fruits and several other tropical product. Moreover, agricultural GDP grew by average nearly 5 percent annually during 1998-2003.Plus it reduced the proportion of the poor in Thailand from 32.6 percent in 1988 to 11.3 percent in 2004.Finally,We can borrow Money from Japan and other developed countries to improve transportation and other neccessary things in Thai. As to communication, there is internet that allow people to access massive information around the world. For exampe, people can use E-learning for distance learning from anywhere around the world. Businessmen can use the ability of Email to reach a worldwide audinece with minimal effort(Buzzle.com).People can also work at home. Working at home enable us to gain personal freedom, be with the family, exploit tax advantages and reduce stress. As to cultural benefit. There is a principle that"Global entertainment companies shape the perceptions and dreams of ordinary citizens, wherever they live"Japan and South Korea benefit from the globalization of culture. Japan also export video games and Japanese food to the world.(www.globalpolicy.org/) We can see example of cultural appreciation in Thai people and teenagers who dress like Japnease and Korean stars. Cultural benefit from globalization can be useful for tourism in Thailand. Currently, tourism is a 5 top of high income of Thailand. Government encourages Thai tourists to travel in Thailand. Globalization also improves environment. Environmental activists who criticize free trade often say if people living like American, we need 7 more earths. However there are indicator to show that US living is not unsustainable, First, for Air quality, between 1970 and 1997,U.S. population increased 31 percent, yet total air pollution actually decreased by about 31 percent. Secondly, for water quaility, in 1972, approximately 36 percent of American streams were usable for fishing and/or swimming. This had increased to 64 percent by 1982 and 85% by 1994.Thirdly,for timber supply, the net growth of timber has exceeded the levels of timber harvest every decade since 1952.Next,for agricultural production, in the past 30 years, the production of food grains in the United States increased by 82 percent. Finally, for availability of mineral resources, resources that were once considered scarce are now known to be abundant. (http://www.globalenvision.org/) Positive and Negative Impact of Modernity and Education : A Comparative study between "Diary of Buageaw" and "Luk E Sarn" Back to top Introduction Since the coming of modernity to Thailand, there have been many changes in the ways of lifes of Thai people. Many people think that modernity is the best way to solve all problems and provides comfortable and glamorous life. Therefore Thai people try to spread modernity to every provinces. However, there are also negative impacts to people in many issues such as culture, economic, environment, social values,etc. Moreover, the disadvantages seems to spread more and more to people in rural areas as we see that they earn very small amount of money and they need to go to cities to work hard for jobs that provide low salary. Therefore here is a question: Is modernity really a good way? In this paper, I will study the lifes of people living in urban area of northern area with the coming of modernity-the diary of Buageaw and the eastern area that still preserves the traditional way-Luk E san to see how different with and without of modernity in their lifes. In Luk E'san, people in the village do not need things from modernity at all but they still lead a happy life with thier native lifestyles. They don't want a big house, a moblie phone, a luxurious car, etc. For food, they just live with the food in the environment around them. For example, they harvest vegetables in the forest and hunt some small animals such as fogs, birds, etc. Villagers don't need to ask for expensive food in restaurant or KFC like people in the city. The food from the forest seems to please Coon, the protagonist of this story enough that he feels excited every time his family get things from forest and has his mother cook them for him .Considered about children in big city, they would not be pleased with this kind of food. It seems to be dirty and look cheap. The prize of food is the indicater how good it is. Giving value like this will never end becuase people can never be satisfied with food at home and many people work hard in order to take thier families to go to luxuruios restaurants. Is food in luxurios restaurant better than food in Luk E san story? In term of cleanness, it would be. However, if we compare about happiness from having it. I believe the kid in luk e san would be equal to kids in city having food in luxurius restaurant. Moreoever, he would prefer food he has to food in restaurant. The benefit of living there is they are not many luxurious restaurant like in big city therefore he does not be lured by temptation of them. For relationship, villagers have strong bound with one another. They coperate to gather food in the forests.They give food to thier neighbours. People are cincere with one another. They don't judge and seek relationship with people by considering money and how rich they are. Moreover, they don't seek relationship by thinking about benefits. People do not pretend at another at all. For entertainment, Coon and the villagers do not demand expensive things like people in big cities. They don't need big telvision, decent stereo system, internet and other electronic tools. When Coon's father plays traditional musical instrument called "can" to Coon, he is pleased enough. Moreover, they don't need to go out to big department stores or Siam square to spend money ;just going to the forest to hunt and gather wild things is fun enough for Coon. Life in the village is simple and follow natural ways. Coon and his friends express thier sexual feeling in straightfoward way. They don't recieve things that may distract mind to be abnormal from big city like porn movies, violence games and movies that teenagers from big city experience them and some of them turn to use violence to people around them. Villagers regard temples as the center of town and they often go to the temple for monks' teaching. On the contrary, people in big city do not pay much attention to religious. We can see that life without modernit of Coon has many spiritual benefits to him. However, we see that many villagers are poor and modern equipment are importent to them to increase thier products and they need modern equipment to improve thier house's quailities. For diary of Buageaw, we obviously see the damage of modernity from big city to Bua geaw and other girls in village of the northern Thailand. Modernity makes people to be greedy. They want to be rich without caring if things they do are good or bad. Some people build commercial sex places and lie girls in rural areas to be raped and forced to become prostitutes. As to prositution in city nowadays, girls often are not forced to do but they come to be becuase of money. When modernity comes to rural areas, it makes people want to earn expensive things to make themselves look good like people in big cities. Villagers stat to be not satisfied with the condition they live. Girls in villages know that one way to get these things is to use thier bodies. Plus they can earn money to support thier families to buy materials. Another thing from modernity that lure villagers to want materials is television and movies. Many soap opera Thai movies always show people with expensive cars, cloth and houses. Plus commerical adds always try to sell mobile phones and other stuffs. It drives girls in village want to have these kinds of things. Villagers are left to be the defeated. As to Chad, he is poor so he is not attract to girls he wants. Without modernity, Chad may successfully be married with Tamatari. However, the modernity separate him by taking Tamatari to enter the world of rich people and expensive materials. There are also things which are benefits from modernity in this story. First, electricity provide more time for them at nights. Secondly, international business of the queen enable girls in trobles to have hope again to do a good job. Moreover modern equipments allow disabled girls to be comfortable in their daily activities. Education is the best solution for villagers to adjust modernity to thier lifestyles. I don't mean that people who have native knowlege in "Luk E Sarn" are stupid but they need new knowlege to adapt with unavoidable new world of modernity. If Coon and villagers continue to be the same like this, they cannot survive in this near future. We can see that sometimes when his family cannot provide many products, they are so poor. In social nowadays, there are polution from factories that contaminate the forest areas. Then Coon's family would find it's harder and harder to gather forest foods. Moreover, many villagers who are farmers need to face high competition from people who use modern technology to increase thier products. Then they cannot fight if they don't use technology with thier farms. Futhermore, when international stores such as Lotus or Big C come to village, farmers and local stores will face difficulty to compete with them. Finally Coon may lose his farm and have to go to big city to be a laboror to earn few salary. We also see this example from the writer of this story "Cumpoon".He uses the character of Coon as his childhood's dream. Then he has to go to big city to be a laborer like many people from the eastern part of Thailand. With hardship of life, when political party gives them money to survive for a day, many of them would not reject it. Moreover, when westerners come to ask for girls in the eastern Thailand, they would be pleased in order to survive to poverty and have someone to support thier family. These are the hardship of lifes which are not mentioned in the story of Luk E Sarn. Therefore the government do need to provide good education for new generation of people in this area; studying with few teachers in limited area is not enough for them. They need to learn how to increase the productivity, how to do economical analysis, learn about politic, etc in order to survive in this changing world. We need to place college, bank, commercial zones which provide opportunity for local people to earn more money so they do not need to immigrate to do low jobs in big cities. And they need to accept the chaging of the world and adapt to it. They can still often come to temple and follow tradition lifestyles but not to view modernity as a bad thing and never learn to benefit from it. For girls in the story" diary of Buageaw", we seriously need to improve education to them. The first and the most important subject is not match or language but the study of modernity and negative impact from big city. They need to know the danger of people in the city that will take advantage for them. Plus there should be the subject that teach villagers to be aware the danger of expensive things that lure them to work for bad jobs in big cities. The government must not only provide TV and electricity for them without advises. Giving girls the opportunity to work in the Queen's business is a good idea but how many girls will have this benefits? Therefore the government should expand this kind of opportunity not only for diasabled girls but to massive groups of all villagers. If the goverment provide good education and enough jobs for them, they would not be lured to become prostitutes. In conclusion, modernity provides both of benefits and disadvantages. Life of people in "Luke E Sarn" story is a a good and peacful life but there is no way we can stop the spreading of modernity to thier village and it can create negative impact to people as we see in the "diary of Buageaw" Modernity must come with good education in order to help villagers to learn to benefit from it and avoide negative effects. I'm taking about things that the government and everyone knows but many of them do not really care. The policy of some political party to give money to buy native people's hearts is not a good idea since they have no good education to use it. They might spend it to buy mobile phones or motocycles. These villagers will never be able to totally get to real good quaility of life with good works and good income with this policy. Back to top

PK Combo is a male hero who was made from hell. He lives in Chiang mai and takes care of people who would like to find a good movie but could not. He likes to drink sometimes (but not now) and he loves Japanese food. He thinks that breavity is the key to overcome suffering but he cannot cook. He also likes listening to classical music, although someone may think it's not appropriate to him.

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Drinking place in Chiang Mai
Benefits of Globalization To World
Positive and Negative Impact of Modernity and Education : A Comparative study between "Diary of Buageaw" and "Luk E Sarn"

Drinking Place in Chiang Mai

As we know that Thailand ranks the fifth-drunkest country in the world therefore there are a lot of drinking places in Thailand including Chiang mai, a popular toruist province. In Chiang mai there are many styles of drinking places for various types of people providing service both day and night. As to day time, there are natural places such as damns, waterfalls, swamp, etc. There are restaurants around those places. The favorite kind of foods usually are eastern foods such as sticky rice, grilled chicken and Somtam. In holiday, people usually come with friend to visit natural places and drink. Moreover, even in the official working time(12.00-6.00 pm),we can still see many people coming to drink and drink. Some girls dress in student uniform to drink. There are also many restaurant with karaoke service during day time for drinking and many people come. At night, there are numerous drinking places around Chiang mai in urban and rural areas. As we drive along the street we will see many small corners that people gathering to drink. You cannot miss it wherever you go even you drive near universities or temples. For young people, they usually go to Nimanhamin Road that has a lot of drinking places. The popular places are Monkey club and Warm up. There will be drinking section where people can order foods and dancing section where people enjoy listening to lound music(usually Hiphop) and dance.

Alcohol consumption among adolescents has increased following cuasing problem in making decision (http://intraserver.nurse.cmu.ac.th )and alcohol addiction. There has been a poilicy to ban alcolhol advertisement but it does not work well as we still cleary see numerous people drinking days and nights. There are other factors which are more powerful than advertsiement such as friend's pursuation, or having one's own problem with no better solution. We generally know that Chiang mai people have easy-going personality therefore it could easily turn them to play and drink beucase they expect life to be fun and not serious.

The solution of this problem seems to be far and far away if people care more about making Chiang mai a tourist place with more and more drinking places instead of caring the number of alcoholic people.

Benefits of Globalization To World

Globalization greatly improves economic all around the world. Globalization raises the productivity and living standards of people in countries that open themselves to the global market place. For less developed countries, globalization offers access to foreign capital, global export markets, and advanced technology while breaking the monopoly of inefficient and protected domestic producers. Faster growth, in turn, promotes poverty reduction, democratization, and higher labor and environmental standards(http://www.freetrade.org/issues/globalization.html)

As to Thailand, Globalization also plays important role. It makes Thailand stands as the world No.1 exporter of rice and natural rubber, and the leading exporter of chicken meat, shrimp, sugar, fruits and several other tropical product.

Moreover, agricultural GDP grew by average nearly 5 percent annually during 1998-2003.Plus it reduced the proportion of the poor in Thailand from 32.6 percent in 1988 to 11.3 percent in 2004.Finally,We can borrow Money from Japan and other developed countries to improve transportation and other neccessary things in Thai.

As to communication, there is internet that allow people to access massive information around the world. For exampe, people can use E-learning for distance learning from anywhere around the world. Businessmen can use the ability of Email to reach a worldwide audinece with minimal effort(Buzzle.com).People can also work at home. Working at home enable us to gain personal freedom, be with the family, exploit tax advantages and reduce stress.

As to cultural benefit. There is a principle that"Global entertainment companies shape the perceptions and dreams of ordinary citizens, wherever they live"Japan and South Korea benefit from the globalization of culture. Japan also export video games and Japanese food to the world.(www.globalpolicy.org/)

We can see example of cultural appreciation in Thai people and teenagers who dress like Japnease and Korean stars. Cultural benefit from globalization can be useful for tourism in Thailand. Currently, tourism is a 5 top of high income of Thailand. Government encourages Thai tourists to travel in Thailand.

Globalization also improves environment. Environmental activists who criticize free trade often say if people living like American, we need 7 more earths. However there are indicator to show that US living is not unsustainable, First, for Air quality, between 1970 and 1997,U.S. population increased 31 percent, yet total air pollution actually decreased by about 31 percent. Secondly, for water quaility, in 1972, approximately 36 percent of American streams were usable for fishing and/or swimming. This had increased to 64 percent by 1982 and 85% by 1994.Thirdly,for timber supply, the net growth of timber has exceeded the levels of timber harvest every decade since 1952.Next,for agricultural production, in the past 30 years, the production of food grains in the United States increased by 82 percent. Finally, for availability of mineral resources, resources that were once considered scarce are now known to be abundant.

(http://www.globalenvision.org/)

Positive and Negative Impact of Modernity and Education :
A Comparative study between "Diary of Buageaw" and "Luk E Sarn"

Introduction

Since the coming of modernity to Thailand, there have been many changes in the ways of lifes of Thai people. Many people think that modernity is the best way to solve all problems and provides comfortable and glamorous life. Therefore Thai people try to spread modernity to every provinces. However, there are also negative impacts to people in many issues such as culture, economic, environment, social values,etc. Moreover, the disadvantages seems to spread more and more to people in rural areas as we see that they earn very small amount of money and they need to go to cities to work hard for jobs that provide low salary. Therefore here is a question: Is modernity really a good way? In this paper, I will study the lifes of people living in urban area of northern area with the coming of modernity-the diary of Buageaw and the eastern area that still preserves the traditional way-Luk E san to see how different with and without of modernity in their lifes.

In Luk E'san, people in the village do not need things from modernity at all but they still lead a happy life with thier native lifestyles. They don't want a big house, a moblie phone, a luxurious car, etc. For food, they just live with the food in the environment around them. For example, they harvest vegetables in the forest and hunt some small animals such as fogs, birds, etc. Villagers don't need to ask for expensive food in restaurant or KFC like people in the city. The food from the forest seems to please Coon, the protagonist of this story enough that he feels excited every time his family get things from forest and has his mother cook them for him .Considered about children in big city, they would not be pleased with this kind of food. It seems to be dirty and look cheap. The prize of food is the indicater how good it is. Giving value like this will never end becuase people can never be satisfied with food at home and many people work hard in order to take thier families to go to luxuruios restaurants. Is food in luxurios restaurant better than food in Luk E san story? In term of cleanness, it would be. However, if we compare about happiness from having it. I believe the kid in luk e san would be equal to kids in city having food in luxurius restaurant. Moreoever, he would prefer food he has to food in restaurant. The benefit of living there is they are not many luxurious restaurant like in big city therefore he does not be lured by temptation of them. For relationship, villagers have strong bound with one another. They coperate to gather food in the forests.They give food to thier neighbours. People are cincere with one another. They don't judge and seek relationship with people by considering money and how rich they are. Moreover, they don't seek relationship by thinking about benefits. People do not pretend at another at all. For entertainment, Coon and the villagers do not demand expensive things like people in big cities. They don't need big telvision, decent stereo system, internet and other electronic tools. When Coon's father plays traditional musical instrument called "can" to Coon, he is pleased enough. Moreover, they don't need to go out to big department stores or Siam square to spend money ;just going to the forest to hunt and gather wild things is fun enough for Coon. Life in the village is simple and follow natural ways. Coon and his friends express thier sexual feeling in straightfoward way. They don't recieve things that may distract mind to be abnormal from big city like porn movies, violence games and movies that teenagers from big city experience them and some of them turn to use violence to people around them. Villagers regard temples as the center of town and they often go to the temple for monks' teaching. On the contrary, people in big city do not pay much attention to religious. We can see that life without modernit of Coon has many spiritual benefits to him. However, we see that many villagers are poor and modern equipment are importent to them to increase thier products and they need modern equipment to improve thier house's quailities.

For diary of Buageaw, we obviously see the damage of modernity from big city to Bua geaw and other girls in village of the northern Thailand. Modernity makes people to be greedy. They want to be rich without caring if things they do are good or bad. Some people build commercial sex places and lie girls in rural areas to be raped and forced to become prostitutes. As to prositution in city nowadays, girls often are not forced to do but they come to be becuase of money. When modernity comes to rural areas, it makes people want to earn expensive things to make themselves look good like people in big cities. Villagers stat to be not satisfied with the condition they live. Girls in villages know that one way to get these things is to use thier bodies. Plus they can earn money to support thier families to buy materials. Another thing from modernity that lure villagers to want materials is television and movies. Many soap opera Thai movies always show people with expensive cars, cloth and houses. Plus commerical adds always try to sell mobile phones and other stuffs. It drives girls in village want to have these kinds of things. Villagers are left to be the defeated. As to Chad, he is poor so he is not attract to girls he wants. Without modernity, Chad may successfully be married with Tamatari. However, the modernity separate him by taking Tamatari to enter the world of rich people and expensive materials. There are also things which are benefits from modernity in this story. First, electricity provide more time for them at nights. Secondly, international business of the queen enable girls in trobles to have hope again to do a good job. Moreover modern equipments allow disabled girls to be comfortable in their daily activities.

Education is the best solution for villagers to adjust modernity to thier lifestyles. I don't mean that people who have native knowlege in "Luk E Sarn" are stupid but they need new knowlege to adapt with unavoidable new world of modernity. If Coon and villagers continue to be the same like this, they cannot survive in this near future. We can see that sometimes when his family cannot provide many products, they are so poor. In social nowadays, there are polution from factories that contaminate the forest areas. Then Coon's family would find it's harder and harder to gather forest foods. Moreover, many villagers who are farmers need to face high competition from people who use modern technology to increase thier products. Then they cannot fight if they don't use technology with thier farms. Futhermore, when international stores such as Lotus or Big C come to village, farmers and local stores will face difficulty to compete with them. Finally Coon may lose his farm and have to go to big city to be a laboror to earn few salary. We also see this example from the writer of this story "Cumpoon".He uses the character of Coon as his childhood's dream. Then he has to go to big city to be a laborer like many people from the eastern part of Thailand. With hardship of life, when political party gives them money to survive for a day, many of them would not reject it. Moreover, when westerners come to ask for girls in the eastern Thailand, they would be pleased in order to survive to poverty and have someone to support thier family. These are the hardship of lifes which are not mentioned in the story of Luk E Sarn. Therefore the government do need to provide good education for new generation of people in this area; studying with few teachers in limited area is not enough for them. They need to learn how to increase the productivity, how to do economical analysis, learn about politic, etc in order to survive in this changing world. We need to place college, bank, commercial zones which provide opportunity for local people to earn more money so they do not need to immigrate to do low jobs in big cities. And they need to accept the chaging of the world and adapt to it. They can still often come to temple and follow tradition lifestyles but not to view modernity as a bad thing and never learn to benefit from it. For girls in the story" diary of Buageaw", we seriously need to improve education to them. The first and the most important subject is not match or language but the study of modernity and negative impact from big city. They need to know the danger of people in the city that will take advantage for them. Plus there should be the subject that teach villagers to be aware the danger of expensive things that lure them to work for bad jobs in big cities. The government must not only provide TV and electricity for them without advises. Giving girls the opportunity to work in the Queen's business is a good idea but how many girls will have this benefits? Therefore the government should expand this kind of opportunity not only for diasabled girls but to massive groups of all villagers. If the goverment provide good education and enough jobs for them, they would not be lured to become prostitutes.

In conclusion, modernity provides both of benefits and disadvantages. Life of people in "Luke E Sarn" story is a a good and peacful life but there is no way we can stop the spreading of modernity to thier village and it can create negative impact to people as we see in the "diary of Buageaw" Modernity must come with good education in order to help villagers to learn to benefit from it and avoide negative effects. I'm taking about things that the government and everyone knows but many of them do not really care. The policy of some political party to give money to buy native people's hearts is not a good idea since they have no good education to use it. They might spend it to buy mobile phones or motocycles. These villagers will never be able to totally get to real good quaility of life with good works and good income with this policy.