Last night I watched a documentary on Nation Geographic channel.
It was about Taiwan nowadays.
Freedom of expression arts, a famous choreographer even said if he goes stage nude, it won't be mentioned on the newspaper or anything. Artists are free to express themselves and pull their best to present the works. If you wanna be notice you gotta be really good on what you do.
Documentary also talked about renaissance of tea ceremony and pride of Chinese cultures.
Make me think a lot about Thailand.
Regarding the news on past few weeks, one of a Thai movie can't pass censorship and the censor department refuse to returning the originally film to the director even though he agreed not to show this movie in his mother's land.
Also, make me think of some actors and actress who want to have a quick headline on the front page by wearing too sexy cloths or doing something that considered to be inappropriate for Thai culture. Tragically, they actually succeeded.
And the government blocked
Youtube
.
As we know that people from somewhere far from us uploaded something that we break every Thai hearts and even against Thai law.
I have nothing against this action. (Besides, I'm not a big fan of Youtube)
But I was shocked when I hear minister of ICT department told the press that he doesn't care about what people say in forums on the net, he never read it and he barely use e-mail. (Ouch… I was shock and speechless)
What is Thai culture anyway?
I'm in the era that Thai people will wear Thai traditional cloths only in the morning of their wedding day, those who wear everyday are hotel's reception or waitresses.
People in my generation speak English words in every phrase.
Tickets of Korean pop star concert sold out in a very short time while the traditional Thai dance at national theater is as quiet as a house of anti-social person.
Ok…leave the culture for now… too much to say at once.
What I try to say is after I watched that show I'm envy of Taiwanese, envy of every country that people are free to say or present who they are and what they think.
This kind of envy is not from basic human nature, which doesn't seem to satisfy with anything they already have.
I do love my country very much indeed.
Thailand is the country of compromising, but complete freedom of speech can't exist.
