Sociology in the Wild: Thailand

Bonds of Song and Silence in Southeast Asia

I feel totally foreign and immediately at home in Asia. The clothes are all my size. I love a fancy toilet. I can eat my weight in mango sticky rice. And three of my favorite things are tea, slippers, and karaoke. It’s a match.

I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Southeast Asia over the years, and there’s always an initial adjustment period to the organiz…