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Culture of Thailand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1874 words) |
 | The Culture of Thailand is heavily influenced by Buddhism. |
| Literature in Thailand is heavily influenced by Indian culture. |
| Merit is said to travel through the string and be conveyed to the water; a similar arrangement is used to transfer merit to the dead at a funeral, further evidence of the weakening of the taboo on mixing funerary imagery and trappings with marriage ceremonies. |
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| As with the rest of Southeast Asia, Thailand was forced to become an ally of Japan by the Japanese military during World War II and even declared war on the United States and United Kingdom on January 25, 1942. |
| The arrival of communist regimes on Thailand’s borders, the abolition of the 600-year-old Lao monarchy, and the arrival of a flood of refugees from Laos and Cambodia, turned public opinion in Thailand back to the right, and conservatives did much better in the 1976 elections than they had done in 1975. |
| Thailand’s stability depends to a large extent on the personal authority of the king, who turned 78 in December 2005 and is not in good health. |
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