Dear All, We were extremely busy with our annual event last week to prepare Thai Fulbright grantees before their departure....exhausted ka!
In between the busy time, we learned a lot. I personally enjoyed listening to Ambassador Kasit Piromya, who was invited to be our keynote speaker, inspiring our grantees to become more contributive across cultures while being great life-long learners.
I picked up 3 issues from his talk ka.
1. Thailand has its own ideology, covering our Nation, Religion, and Monarch. Because of the three, it's our responsibility to protect them all. He noted that there've been internal reforms of the three pillars as years go by too.
2. We could look at Singapore to see how it has achieved its targeted goals. Singapore is small and highly successful. So if Thailand can become successful, even when we are much bigger, wouldn't it be a greater achievement for us to enjoy? I like his positive thinking and the way he puts it as I heard so many people mentioning about the size of Singapore, which doesn't mean much to our development efforts if we're very serious to move forward na ka.
3. When asked about the US's perspectives about the most recent coup, he said we need to understand where the US is from. Its democracy has matured for over a century after many struggles, e.g. from discrimination, civil war, etc. Thailand is growing and will become more mature eventually and definitely in different ways. I saw an article of his interview on this very issue in the Krungtep Turakit paper this morning too.
He also touched upon other matters when he assumed the
position of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. It was real impressive to see how straightforward he was to the
ASEAN group when no one dared to speak up much. We do need our own Thai
representatives to dare to speak the truth at the right time to the right group
some time, not just far too diplomatic style all the time ka.
Several grantees said to me that they started thinking more of the world
beyond their own fields.......this made me feel very happy and
I know that our bright Fulbright grantees have been inspired to research and
learn further on their own ka.
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