Word: thailander
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Confused? Don’t be. Prasse-Freeman has always been about more than just what goes on the hardwood, and his six-week stint in Thailand this past summer provided him an opportunity to combine his sense of social justice with thesis field research...
...Thailand is notorious for its sex tourism industry, and many human rights organizations point to its exploitation of young girls as one of modern humanity’s glaring failures. And since over 90 percent of the Thai population identifies itself as Buddhist, Prasse-Freeman, as any good Ivy assists leader should, wanted to make the connection...
...Thailand and immediately realized the difficulties. For one thing, the phenomenon of exploitative prostitution was so pervasive as to make it impossible to get a grasp on the whole thing. For the uninitiated, field research was tough...
...that wasn’t too serious a setback, because Prasse-Freeman wanted mostly to talk to Buddhist monks and NGO workers in Thailand who would help him answer the religious and political questions...
...signs along a strip of crumbling bitumen. I passed through the gates of a temple and found the tallest palm trees I've ever seen, jutting skyward from a lush hump of jungle-covered earth in the middle of a weed-strewn lake. It looked like one of southern Thailand's tropical isles had been picked up and dropped into the middle of a paddy...