What culture training will be given about Thailand and the Hilltribes?
The online portion of the class that starts in early June is an orientation that will cover this material. More specifically we will cover the Thai greeting, position of the hands, famous faux pas (left hand), language differences (royalty, monks, lay), the pursuit of modernization that destroyed the pink village, average day in the life of a thai (hilltribe, urban, rural, male, female, child, etc.) We also want to showcase how Americans have been perceived in these areas by reading a book called “The Ugly American.” this book is dated but is based around a fictional country in S.E.Asia and still has material that is applicable.
