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The discourse on Thai-ness, as established by government-supported intellectuals, and propagated through the educational policy, curriculum and textbooks, remains highly influential, and is highly respected by Thai society.
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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II. Historians do not fully agree on its starting and ending points, but the period is generally considered to span the 1947 Truman Doctrine (12 March 1947) to the 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union (26 December 1991). Thailand was a member of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) alongside the United States from 1954 to 1977 and is a Major non-NATO (since 2003).
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Jatuporn, O. (2022). Decolonising the “Thai-ness” Discourse in Education. In: Moncrieffe, M.L. (eds) Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13623-8_6
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