Land of Smiles (Das Land des Lächelns in the original German) is a 1929operetta by Franz Lehár. 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Operetta (literally, little opera) is a performance art-form similar to opera, though it generally deals with less serious topics. ... Franz Lehár (30 April 1870 - 24 October 1948) was an Hungarian composer, mainly known for his operettas. ...
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The show is set in China. The heroine is a European girl who marries a Chinese visitor and returns with him to his homeland despite the warnings of her friends and family, but eventually finds she is unable to come to terms with his native culture.
Travel brochures often portrays Thailand as the happy-go-lucky 'Land of Smiles', an impression the Tourism Authority of Thailand are more than happy to go along with.
The reason is there's a much broader range of uses for smiling in Thailand, some of which would be considered as inappropriate or even as rude in the west.
Similarly it helps to know, for instance, that people smiling if you happen to trip up may not actually be laughing at you (yim yor), but just giving you a yim yair-yair to try and stop you feeling embarrassed.
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Land of Smiles (Das Land des Lächelns in the original German) is a 1929 operetta by Franz Lehár.
The heroine is a European girl who marries a Chinese visitor and returns with him to his homeland despite the warnings of her friends and family, but eventually finds she is unable to come to terms with his native culture.
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