Re: OT The First Crown Prince of Siam

[ Khun S.'s remarks omitted not to ignore them, but to avoid focusing on
what, for me, is the tangential issue of how one SCT'r might or might not
reflect their Thai origins ... and go to a broader issue ... ]

mmmmm .... Khun Sandy's remarks make me think about a fellow I used to know
that worked for Pixar doing quite advanced graphic programming : he had
completely identified with the American cowboy tradition. He drove a huge
truck with winches; he had a farm with cattle. He dressed the part 100%;
spoke with a twang, even sometimes moved his jaws in a gesture reminiscent
of how yahoos move their jaws with a wad of chewing tobacco in them. This
was more than an "impersonation" : this was an incarnation !

I met him at a party, was convinced he was from Abilene, Texas, or somewhere
like that, and later asked a friend of mine about him and his origins. My
friend told me that he was a middle-class kid from a medium-size town in
Canada, and had only met cattle, until a few years ago, in their final stage
as hamburgers ! When, as a younger man, not busy with advanced mathematical
studies and computer programming, he rocked out with cowboy movies.

It is remarkable and wonderful what people can become, let alone Orangs. On
some profound level we can all speak for the countries we grew up in, and
can't speak about the countries we did not grow up in. But we do, speak ...
anyway.

This Tuesday I'll go to the American 4th-a-July thing which is always a ...
well ... the last two years I tried it, I was bored out of my mind. But the
best part of it is seeing the look-khreung children play and have a good
time. That's when I have the feeling, looking at those kids, that there is a
future out there another generation can move toward which might be different
from the sad state of the world today.

Here's to a future in which everyone can be a crown prince or crown
princess, and have the freedom to choose what they like from a smorgasboord
of the world's cultures ... or have the freedom to be "true to their roots."
Whether they want an "igloo" or a "Windsor" : more power to them.

The writer, Chris Moore, once said to me when I told him I was thinking of
moving to Thailand kind of permanently : "here you can be one in a million."

I still feel I am discovering what he was talking about, but I wouldn't
advise anyone to try and be "one in a million" here without money in the
bank. And I'd keep the money in a bank outside Thailand, and wire in only
what I needed to live on. Those of you that need more advice in this area I
refer to the faked letter that duped Malvolio in 12th. Night and its
priceless wisdom.

~o:37;


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