prof jijik dari UKM

Prof Datuk Dr Teo Kok Seong memberikan maklumat yang amat mengeliru dan menjijik yang disiarkan pada akhbar Berita Harian jijik pada 31 Julai 2013.

Menurut akhbar jijik ini, Prof yang amat tak berperut hati ini berkata: " Hari ini 90 peratus Cina di Malaysia tidak tahu berbahasa Melayu. Perangkaan ini ditulis dalam buku tulisan Rita Sim, Unmistakably Chinese, Genuinely Malaysian. Dia juga menuliskan 90 peratus kekal tidak berhubung dengan populasi bukan berbahasa Cina."

Hakikatnya, masyarakat berbilang bangsa memang ada interaksi dan dikaji pada konteks harian, kehidupan, masing-masing juga ada jalingan yang baik, walaupun bukan rapat (biarpun masyarakat setiap ras, contohnya masyarakat orang Putih, bangsa Thai yang satu bahasa, satu budaya, satu bangsa, sendiri juga tak mungkin rapat macam madu, malahan demonstrasi tak henti-henti, lawan sampai mati-matian, konflik sampai tak habis-habis---manusia atau insan sama ras juga hanya akan berhubung dan interaksi umum sahaja, faktanya famili atau keluarga sesuatu ras pun tak rapat dengan ras sendirilah....)

(saksilah di kampung, di desa, di bandar, berbilang bangsa juga ada interaksi, apa bahasa yang dipakai? Bahasa Inggeris? Perancis? Sepanyol? Latin Amerika atau Rusia?

Prof jijik tanyalah sendiri...tepuk dada tanya selera...apa bahasa yang dipakai..di Semenanjung, di Sabah dan Sarawak?

Orang putih kata Malaysians speak lousy English..... nak interaksi susah....Maenglish atau malingenglish........terrible......
dahsyat sangatlah...

nak cakap Peranchis..tak bisa...nak bilang bahasa Indonesia, tak ada slang....Prof  Teo hijrah ke Indonesia pun susah nak show off minda jijiknya atau nak refleksi ampuisme tetap dipandang rendah!

Apa sih prof jijik nak berlagak-lagak...

kata Orang negara jiran:"Orang Malingsia  mana-mana pun cakap bahasa maling sahaja.....itu bahasa interaksi mereka..."

inilah fakta dan tak bisa ditolak dan dinafikan....apakah 90% kaum Tionghua tak berbahasa Melayu? 

Only idiots will say that!!

Prof Teo is an idiot!!!

definitely!!!    

sikapnya merefleksikan minda jijik....amat menjijikkan!!!

Hujah prof jijik ini amat mengaibkan, mana mungkin 90% orang Tionghua tak tahu berbahasa Melayu?? Mana logiknya?? Janganlah masukkan hujah ini kepada Rita Sim...

Jelas, prof ini yang menjadi penjahil dan otak udang dan tak masuk lapangan, maka adakah prof jijik ini juga telan bulat-bulat?

Penjahil dan pengampu macam Prof Datuk Dr Teo Kok Seong bisa mengampu dan menjadi  Kaki Ampu tapi mana ada fakta dan kajian yang menunjukkan 90% bangsa Tionghua tak bisa berbahasa Melayu.....

Semua murid di SJKC, atau di SMK, SMJK atau SMPC itu buta hurufkah? Mereka semua terkandas dalam PMR, SPMkah?

Di Pasar, di tamu, di pasaraya, di kedai...semasa membeli tiket, naik teksi/bas...apa bahasa yang dibilang.....

bahasa English Imperaial atau bahasa Ratu Britainkah? Boleh bilangkah...ada standard itukah....nak bilang inggeris orang Britainkah......

kalau orang Malaysia yang berbilang bangsa tak pakai bahasa melayu....apakah bahasa yang dipakai? ...bahasa UFO? Banglasia?  atau Bahasa Afrika??

nak bilang inggeris Britain tak ada slang juga...english pasar borong? atau english ayer hitam...atau english putrajaya??

malingenglish.....kaku...tak bisa difaham...antara satu sama lain....

bolehkah you dengar di mana-manapun ada orang malaysia cakap bahasa Inggeriskah.........??

pergi ke mana-mana......bhs yang dipakai utk interaksi harian adalah bhs Melayu bukan malingenglish....lah....

Mana mungkin tak pakai bhs malaysia utk berhubung, berkomunikasi dan berinteraksi????



Prof Datuk Dr Teo Kok Seong yang berbenak  jahil sebenarnya jelas menunjukkan beliau adalah tak akademik dan juga langsung tak kritikal, tak logik langsung!

Ini juga jelas terpapar dan memperlihatkan betapa bodoh dan jahil prof dari UKM ini.

Amat menjijikan menyaksi kejijikan kata-kata daripada seorang prof yang langsung tak membuat kajian dan masuk lapangan.

Prof jijik yang mengeluarkan kata-kata yang amat menjijikkan!

Termasuklah akhbar sampah sarap--Berita Harian / Berita Tipuan yang terkenal dengan Berita Helah!

The 2 gabages fock together! 

Birds of the same feather fock together? 

 

shame, shame, shame!!! 

 

Di bawah ada sebahagian pandangan Rita Sim--bukan apa yang dibilang oleh prof jijik....

 

..they  stands firmly by the Federal Constitution, which allows Chinese and Indian communities the right to mother tongue education, Sim says.

No hindrance to unity

While Chinese schools have been blamed as the cause of disunity in Malaysia by certain sectors, Sim disagrees.

“Today, I don't see Chinese schools as a hindrance to integration because even in Chinese schools you have to learn Bahasa Malaysia. It is a compulsory (subject). And if you go out today, more than 90% of the Chinese in the country are able to communicate in Bahasa, so there is no communication problem.”


Sim strongly believes it is time to acknowledge the role the G1 play in the country's social and economic development.

Proficiency in Chinese is an advantage in the world now, especially if you want to do business in China, she points out.

This is true, and even the BBC has recently reported that Malaysians have an advantage in China because of our multilingual education.

“How many people can speak Mandarin, multiple Chinese dialects, Malay and English?” Lim Cheah Chooi from engineering firm Unimech Group Berhad, which has production factories in China, was quoted by the BBC.

Sim concurs, adding that Malaysians are also able to venture into the Indonesian market because of their fluency in Malay and they can go to the United States and Europe too because of their knowledge of English.

Malaysia is unique in the sense that we have parallel education systems vernacular schools, national schools, and private schools, stresses Sim.


 http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2012/01/22/Chinese-and-truly-Malaysian.aspx/

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Thailand: On the edge of a political crisis?

As thousands rally against the prime minister, we ask if the country is entering a new chapter of political instability. Inside Story Last updated: 27 Nov 2013 12:28

Thai opposition protesters are intensifying pressure on Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down. They have laid siege to government ministries and state buildings in the biggest street demonstrations since 2010 when more than 90 people were killed in a military crackdown. The prime minister is also facing a vote of no confidence from members of parliament. In the parliament ... it is almost impossible to undo the government and therefore the street protests have been used these days and ... in the past few years ... to try to influence the public on ideas of how to bring down the government. And therefore because ... the conflict is so deep and the balance of power on both sides is almost equal ... this is [why] you are seeing a display of this conflict spilling out from the politics in parliament onto the streets. Kriengsak Chareonwongsak, a senior fellow at Harvard University She is the sister of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who has been living in exile since being convicted of corruption. Protesters argue he is still effectively running the country, and using his sister as a puppet prime minister. Tens of thousands of protesters have filled the streets of Bangkok and Yingluck Shinawatra has used an emergency law to tighten security in the capital, but says the government will not use force against demonstrators. She also defended her leadership, saying: "I insist that there is only one cabinet, with me as the prime minister. There are some accusations that I lack independence, and that I lack intelligence, and have to be controlled by pushing a button. I have to say, have I not been independent in the past two years that I administered the country as the head of the government, which all of you may have learned while we went through all those crises." Thailand has been hit by years of political unrest, with protests against whoever has been in power. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown in a military coup in September 2006 while he was out of the country. His Thai Rak Thai party was banned, but in December 2007, a reincarnation of that party, the People Power Party, won the most votes in a general election Thaksin was charged with corruption in August 2008, and fled the country for London. He was later sentenced to two years in jail in his absence. The year 2008 saw three prime ministers in three months, which led to yet more protests. The worst lasted from March to May in 2010, when soldiers eventually broke up the crowds of Thaksin supporters wearing their trademark red shirts. The pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai party won a landslide victory in elections the following year and Thaksin's sister, Yingluck became prime minister. This year has been tough for her. She tried unsuccessfully to change the 2007 post-coup constitution, and triggered the latest protests by trying to push through an amnesty bill that would have allowed her brother Thaksin to return to Thailand without facing jail. Thailand's economy has also suffered this year, and there are concerns the current political crisis could hurt it still further. The economy's growth slowed to 2.7 percent in the third quarter of 2013, compared to 5.4 percent at the beginning of the year. The government has blamed a drop in the number of cars being sold, and a slowdown in construction, and global demand for Thai products. Thailand has now cut its projected GDP growth rate for 2013 from 3.8 percent - 4.3 percent predicted in August, to just three percent, and the seemingly endless cycle of protests has prompted some analysts to suggest that Thailand is set on economic suicide. So what is behind the long-running political conflict? What is at stake in the region? And how will Thailand's political crisis affect the country's economy? Inside Story, with presenter Jane Dutton, is joined by guests: Kriengsak Chareonwongsak, a senior fellow at Harvard University and a former member of Parliament for the Democrat party; Rajiv Biswas, the Asia Pacific chief economist for IHS Global Insight; and Supong Limtanakool, a chairman of strategic studies at Bangkok University. "We have been seeing a stabilisation in the last year or so but this [has] reopened a lot of old wounds. The deep political divisions are coming to the forefront, and the victim is the Thai economy ... clearly protests in Bangkok are going to be very disruptive to tourism ... What is unclear is the length of time it's going to take for this situation to stabilise ... so the risks are increasing that the protests will affect the tourism industry, [which is] about 7 percent of [the] Thai GDP; and it's happening at a time when other exports are weakening, particularly the rice export which [is] very, very important for Thailand has been badly affected by the government subsidy programme." Rajiv Biswas, the Asia Pacific chief economist for IHS Global Insight

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Fresh violence pushes Thailand deeper into crisis

By By Thanyarat Doksone And Jocelyn Gecker December 02, 2013

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BANGKOK (AP) — The United Nations closed its main office in Bangkok, dozens of schools were shut and civil servants skipped work as stone-throwing protesters battled through clouds of tear gas in renewed assaults on key government buildings in the Thai capital on Monday.
The protests aimed at toppling the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have renewed fears of prolonged instability in one of Southeast Asia's biggest economies and come just ahead of the peak holiday tourist season.
After a weekend of chaos in pockets of Bangkok, protesters regrouped outside the heavily-barricaded prime minister's office Monday and repeatedly clashed with the police who fired tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets. Emboldened by their leader's vow to topple Yingluck by Wednesday, they threw rocks at police and tore away sections of barbed wire and concrete barriers.
In a nationally televised appeal, Yingluck's deputy, Surapong Tovichakchaikul, called on protesters to stop hurting Thailand's image and the economy. Yingluck has not appeared in public since Saturday, but on Monday posted a picture of herself on Facebook in a meeting with senior government and police officers.
Using a conciliatory tone, Surapong said "the government will exercise utmost patience and adhere to nonviolent principles."
"The government would like to insist that it will lead Thailand back to peace soon," he said.
The protesters, who are mostly middle-class Bangkok supporters of the opposition Democrat Party, want Yingluck to step down, claiming she is a proxy for her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. He was deposed in a 2006 military coup but remains central to Thailand's political crisis, and is a focal point for the protester's hatred.
The protesters, who call themselves the People's Democratic Reform Committee, say their goal is to uproot the political machine of Thaksin, who is accused of widespread corruption and winning elections by buying voters from poor rural folk.
In an e-mailed statement to its staff, the United Nations' security department said "there could be violence (Monday) on a large scale .. staff should avoid government offices" and other protest locations.
Many of the offices and schools closed Monday were located near the Government House, in the historic quarter of the capital, where police over the weekend fought off mobs of rock-throwing protesters armed with petrol bombs. At least three people were killed and 103 injured in skirmishes over the weekend.
Many of the protesters wore raincoats and plastic bags over their heads, to protect against the sting of tear gas.
The violence has mainly been around key institutions -- the Parliament, at the Government House and Metropolitan Police Headquarters in the historic quarter of the capital. The area has some of Bangkok's main tourist attractions such as the Grand Palace, Wat Pho temple, the Bangkok zoo, and the backpacker area of Khao San Road. Most of Bangkok, a city of 10 million, has been normal.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy prime minister, says his aim is to install an unelected "people's council" to select a new prime minister.
Suthep's demand has been criticized by many as undemocratic, and is unlikely to be accepted by a government that was elected with an overwhelming majority.
However, his sustained campaign has led to suggestions that he may have the backing of the military, which has long had a powerful influence over Thai politics. The army has often stepped in during times of crisis, carrying out 18 successful or attempted coups since the 1930s.
Suthep met with Yingluck late Sunday in the presence of top military officials even though he has an arrest warrant against him. He later told cheering supporters that he told Yingluck that the only way to end the protests was for her to step down. The military has said it is neutral in the conflict but army commander Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha has urged the police not to use force.
"There was no negotiation during this meeting," Suthep said. If Yingluck "listens to the people's voices and returns the power to the people obediently, we will treat Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra with politeness because we all are good citizens."
The French Embassy issued one of the strongest warnings of dozens of foreign governments, urging citizens to "stay inside" to avoid the conflict on Bangkok's streets. The French School is located in a northeastern Bangkok neighborhood where gunshots rang out over the weekend during clashes between Yingluck's supporters and opponents.
It was one of at least 60 schools closed in Bangkok on Monday.
Political instability has plagued Thailand since the military ousted Thaksin, who remains hugely popular among rural voters, in 2006. Two years later, anti-Thaksin protesters occupied Bangkok's two airports for a week after taking over the prime minister's office for three months, and in 2010 pro-Thaksin protesters occupied downtown Bangkok for weeks in a standoff that ended with parts of the city in flames and more than 90 dead.
Any further deterioration is likely to scare away investors as well as tourists who come to Thailand by the millions and contribute 10 percent to the $602 billion economy, Southeast Asia's second largest after Indonesia. It is also likely to undermine Thailand's democracy, which had built up in fits and starts interrupted by coups.
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Associated Press writers Papitchaya Boonngok and Raul Gallego Abellan contributed to this report.

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Once defiant ‘Red Shirt’ anti-government protesters surrendered after Thai troops crushed a months-long street standoff that had paralyzed central Bangkok. Hundreds are under arrest, a night-time curfew has been declared along with a TV news blackout as the army tries to mop up small pockets of resistance. But will the tough action by the security forces restore a lasting peace to the capital of the so-called ‘Land of Smiles”? Or, is more violence, bloodshed and social unrest likely? Can the kingdom regain a sense of unity? And, who are the main players in this national tragedy? In this audio slideshow, Duncan McCargo, author of Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand, winner of Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz Book Award, discusses Thailand's political crisis.  
Produced by Stephanie Valera, Asia Society Online

anonymous | 11:21:11 09:10pm

What role is Islam playing in Thailand ? Are they helping or hurting?

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Amber | 09:17:10 01:58pm

I am writting a report on the red shirt because they are very intressting to me. I live in the US so it is very hard to understand what is going on in a place i am not and to really understand. Id like to hear more about the Red Shirts. How did it really effect you and how do you feel about the group? Please help me out in understanding the situation and the issue as a whole. Thank you!

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Kent Hwang | 06:15:10 03:48pm

What is really behide this demonstration? Former fugitive Taksin Shinawat is the key person, who should take full responsible, for him who had bought ( corrupted) all the raminification of all Thai society from top to bottom with all the money that he had manipulating while in the office of Thailand Piminister post, with in no more than 4-5 years, he managed to turn all the Thai national resources into his own private property, luckily that all the intellectuals in Thailand had stood up against him, finally he got the sentence from Supreme Court of Thailand 3 years jail time, he fled away ,and phone in ,video link to Thailand ffrom every corner of the world to order and organised the subotage to the country without common decency, just for the revenge of his own interested, he had committed all kind of evil with the assets he had, hell is going for him soon.!!!!

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Apinan S. | 05:23:10 12:19am

Thank god its finally over. I love my country and i feel we all lost in this battle. No one to blame but ourselves.

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Gregory Galligan | 05:19:10 10:44am

I've been wanting to see Asia Society open a center in Bangkok for years now. Your presence could help in mattters of cultural exchange, education, and other projects and events. It would surely represent a new expression of hope and encouragement in the region for you to pioneer this, now, thus setting a sterling example for others.---Gregory Galligan, PhD, Fulbright Senior Research Fellow to Thailand, 2010 (Bangkok)

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Alex Har | 05:18:10 09:30pm

The real fear is that the yellow shirts become impatient and take to the streets. This would create a civil war situation.

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Glenn K | 05:15:10 06:51pm

Regardless of which color "shirt" one identifies with or how divided Thai society is, there will never be a foundation for any successful govenment in Thailand without adherence to the rule of law. Unfortunatley, both sides of the current struggle seem to have made grave mistakes by either ignoring (the "Reds") or failing to adequately/quickly enforce (the Government) the rule of law as this crisis began to escalate two months ago. While nobody knows exactly how far the conflict will go, or how it can possibly end, there is no hope for any kind of true democracy in Thailand without re-institutionalizing the rule of law.

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Carter | 05:16:10 12:53pm

The "rule of law" was broken when the military overthrew the rightfully elected prime minister in a coup in 2006. The "law" in Thailand is the law of what is essentially a corrupt dictatorship disguised as a constitutional monarchy . . . one that pretends to have elections but then just throws out whoever they don't like at gunpoint. The people have god-given right to protest such gross injustice, and should, and free people of the world should wish them the best in their efforts to overcome tyranny, human rights abuses, and the gross misuse of power on the part of Thailand's current government and legal system.

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Glenn K | 05:16:10 02:45pm

I agree, for the most part. There is a long history and culture of power struggles among the elites in Thailand, and the "guise" of a democratic society to the outside world. Insiders know better. This is Thailand- nothing is as it seems! While the "Reds" absolutely should be free to voice their concerns, there is a fine line between doing so and then holding a city hostage...what about the rights of the people who live and work in Ratchaprasong? Many of my friends have had their livelihoods destroyed- possibly for good. I am all for their right to protest, and to seek change. All voices should be heard. I just do not agree with their tactics. They are no different than what others, as you allude to, have done in previous coups or other situations of gross injustice. Regardless, now what? Even if the government clears Ratchaprasong of Reds, now there are no elections scheduled, and no political change. Now what?

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Koo | 05:18:10 11:17pm

How will there be changed when we know who pulls the string?

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Opposing views

This illusion held until 1997, when the Asian financial crisis put an end to Thailand’s developmental journey. A new political class was brought in and it re-wrote the rulebook. Recognising that the Thai village was a transient place, deeply connected to the city and largely uninterested in protecting its own tradition, the government of Thaksin Shinawatra built its political base upon giving villagers what they wanted – access to the global market.

Thaksin Shinawatra sees a different Thailand to many. Helene C Stikkel

These were populist polices that conflicted with the existing system and were incomprehensible for many opposed to Thaksin. Moreover, the inclusion of electoral fraud into the critique of Thaksinism in the 2006 protests allowed for many protesters to maintain their idealised view of the countryside. As in the 1970s, the vast regions of north and north-eastern Thailand remained depicted as home to communities who needed to be taught about democracy but who also needed to recognise the value of their own way of life. They sought to maintain a two-tiered version of modernity. Why did rural populations need motorbikes when they had a buffalo?
But over the time, and after two election victories for pro-Thaksin parties, it has become clear that this view is no longer tenable. Now the majority of the Thai people are being portrayed by anti-government protesters as an impediment to Thailand’s economic development and arguments are being made to deny them the right to vote – all to remove Thaksin’s influence.
In truth however, Thailand’s economic development is dependent on continued evolution. Rather than being fixed under an imagined view of stability built around the image of village life, it needs to reconcile itself with a post-Cold War world, with the rise of China and with Southeast Asian economic integration. It needs to recognise that compared to its neighbours to the east and west it is no longer a developing nation, but a mature functioning economy that is in desperate need of new ideas and strategies.
To be clear, the current government is far from being free of elite self-interest or from the maintenance of unequal class relations. There is no clear way to define rights or develop the economy and ultimately the Thai people must recognise that development is an uneven process. They must also, however, understand that the reason why democracy works is because governments can and are shaped by those who vote.
In a country of massive wealth inequality it is inevitable that a true Thai democracy would seek to alleviate economic differences, widen the tax base and support the aspirations of the majority. The sooner the current protest movement seeks not only to oppose Thaksin, but learn to really listen to what the majority of the population wants, and then to accept it, the sooner Thailand can once again look to the future.

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3 December 2013, 5.22pm AEST

Thailand’s protests are a symptom of its identity crisis

The protests currently rocking Thailand are some of the largest since the country’s political crisis began to unfold in September 2006 when the then prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, was first ousted. Living in exile since August 2008, he has remained influential in Thai politics through his sister…

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A nation in flux. Vincent Thian/AP

The protests currently rocking Thailand are some of the largest since the country’s political crisis began to unfold in September 2006 when the then prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, was first ousted. Living in exile since August 2008, he has remained influential in Thai politics through his sister and incumbent party leader Yingluck Shinawatra.
The language of those opposing the exiled leader has changed over the years. From a focus on the former leader’s human rights abuses and alleged corruption, their rhetoric has shifted to one increasingly critical of Thaksin’s rural supporters – the majority of the Thai population. This shift reflects tensions in Thai identity.
There is now a surge of opinion in support of temporarily freezing democratic government and implementing an unelected “People’s Council” in order to protect the country from its own people. This view is held by a minority of the population, but is supported and proliferated by a number of key players in the Thai political system.
Most obvious among them is the leadership of the People’s Alliance for Democracy, the political force behind the mobilisation of the “Yellow Shirts” in 2006 and 2008. More recently this view has also been voiced by key members of the main opposition party, the Democrats. Central to their undemocratic lobbying is a skewed perception of Thai history and identity.

The genesis of Thai nationalism

Thai nationalism has always been built on the premise of aspiration. Governed for centuries by elites connected to the Siamese monarchy, the late 19th century saw this small group become attached to a lavish consumer lifestyle funded largely through a profitable relationship with the European colonial powers. With the country’s internal and international trade dominated by Chinese migrant communities, Thai people of commoner status struggled to improve their social standing.
After a revolution that deposed absolute monarchy in 1932, attempts were made to expand the wage earning potential of ordinary Thais. Most were unsuccessful, but the Thai state continued to encourage the population to improve their circumstances and sought to bring all Thais into its vision of a modern nationalist economy.
It was an egalitarian approach to nation building that ultimately backfired. Drenched increasingly in the racist and chauvinistic language of the 1930s, Thailand’s nationalist leaders became re-cast during the Cold War as a product of imported ideas from the West (most notably fascism) and were increasingly viewed as incapable of representing the Thai people. Economic development remained elusive and attempts to nationalise those parts of the economy in foreign hands were increasingly viewed as ineffective. With many becoming focused on how to develop relations with a new international patron, the United States, urban Thais of commoner status began to re-think their nation.

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BANGKOK — Political turmoil escalated this weekend as the leader of anti-government protests called for a takeover of all key government agencies, including the office of the prime minister.
After declaring a "People's Victory Day," opposition leader Suthep Thaugsuban said he met with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in person Sunday evening, giving her an ultimatum of two days to step down from power.
"I only came to tell Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra that right now, people all over Thailand have stood up to show their ownership of Thailand," said Suthep, who called for a nationwide strike by all civil servants and state employees Monday.
At least three people were killed and 103 injured in skirmishes throughout the weekend, and police continued to use tear gas and water cannons to subdue large crowds Sunday. The government mobilized about 3,000 soldiers and military police before Sunday's protests.
The protest group, which calls itself the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), has waged a campaign to oust the government of the prime minister and her Pheu Thai Party since Monday.
"We want this government out of the country," said Narat Kasiwat, 25, a protester near Bangkok's Metropolitan Police Bureau on Sunday afternoon. "Today is V-Day. We expect to take over every government department."
Panich Viikitsreth, a former member of Parliament with the Democrat Party, was with a crowd of a few hundred outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "We're asking them to open the door peacefully," he said.
The opposition claims the government is deeply corrupt and still under the control of Yingluck's brother Thaksin Shinawatra, the deposed former prime minister who has lived in Dubai since being convicted on criminal corruption charges in 2008.

Anti-government protesters riding on trucks greet each other during a demonstration on Dec. 4 in Bangkok. The protesters continued their demonstration against the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra but there was no violence.  Ed Wray, Getty Images