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What seems to me to be a very thorough detailing of Radio Stations on mediumwave and FM for Udon Thani Province are provided on the Website Asiawaves. There are links to other Isaan provinces, as well as Thailand in general — including TV stations. They even have a forum.
One of the things I very much like about Thailand is the open Buddhist reverence that is commonplace. Coming as I do from the West where only the most devout make their Christian faith evident, it appealed to me to see even children being so deferential and polite.
And they conduct themselves so without any thought of trying to make a convert of anyone.
That is what I do not appreciate about the West. It isn’t just the canvassing and active proselytizing, either. I fast tire of being in the company of people who are constantly uttering phrases like “Praise Jesus!” for emphasis to anything they may declare. It’s as tiresome to me as is the drunken conversation of people who have to accentuate every statement with the “F” word.
So I don’t know where I stand about Western missions to Thailand that are seeking to convert Buddhists to Christianity. I’m not particularly comfortable with it, I do know.
I hadn’t realized that there was much of this happening until I joined the Udonmap forum some six years ago and read some posts commenting on missionaries like the Mormons cycling about even over there.
The reason I have brought this up is that radio appears to be one of the mediums through which efforts are being made to “reach” Buddhist Thai Issan people with “the Christian message.”
For instance here: There are plans to produce Isaan Christian radio programs in the future. National Christian television (5:30 am for one half hour each Sunday) and film and video productions are all in central Thai at present.
Also here: Many Great Commission Christian groups are currently working to reach the Isaan with the gospel. Some of the strategies currently being employed to target the Isaan include: radio broadcasts [this was the first of 11 bulleted methodologies.]
Another page on that same site lists “Help sponsor evangelical radio broadcasts in the Isaan dialect” under a category entitled What Can I Do?
Elsewhere, this statement is made: Thailand Strategic Outreach is using radio to reach the isaan people in the Northeast and in the closed land of Laos where persecution is extensive.
On another site, under Thai Isaan Project, it is declared:
SINCE THE LATE 1990s FEBC HAS BEEN sharing Christ with the Isaan people of northeast Thailand. Known for their friendliness, the Isan are family oriented and easy-going.
Most are farmers, and believe that “to be Thai is to be Buddhist.” Traditionally, young men enter a monastery for three months to study Buddhism. Many practice their traditional ethnic religions by combining Buddhist teachings with folk animism, seeking help through the worship of spirits and objects….
There are lots of other similar references throughout the Web, such as here and here.
I guess I just don’t like zealotry.
Back directly to topic — the ThaiVisa forum has a 2008 thread called Issan Internet Radio ? that might interest some of you, if the links given in it still work.
I stumbled across a forum I’d not heard of before, and a thread called New Lao & Isan Website here. The forum members all seem to be Lao and Issan people doing their best to communicate in English, for whatever reason — might it be that English is more of a common tongue for the far-flung Lao and Isaan people than any of their own dialects? I’m guessing. Anyway, here is the new Website the thread brought forth — nothing on it is in English, but a radio station plays very clear music that I expect is a good mix of Lao and Isaan.
In fact, I’ve been listening to that station throughout the creation of this post since discovering it! It’s good!
I referred to the people living in the isaan area as Isaan and did not say Isaan Thai. That was quite deliberate. If you do not have too much familiarity with the distinctness of the Isaan region — apart from it being the poorest area of Thailand — then give this site at least a brief look.
Sakon Nakhon Thailand 01
khatiya | November 08, 2008
Urlaub im Isaan 2008
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