การศึกษาวิเคราะห์ประชาคมอาเซียนและผลกระทบทางวัฒนธรรม

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This research has an objective to (1) study Thai culture before the opening to ASEAN community (2) study the effect of ASEAN community on Thai culture (3) analyze the problems and solutions of the effects from opening of ASEAN community to Thai culture by studying the information of ASEAN community and its relation to culture and religion.  The research shows that before the opening to ASEAN community, there are 2 major cultural effects that are constantly affected and related to Thai culture: religion and language effects. Religious beliefs have been a part of Thai culture for a long period of time and have taken role in Thai society that is shown in daily lifestyles. Meanwhile. language is also an important tool for human communication especially for understanding one another. Thai language has been changing rapidly from the past compared to universal language such as English. The opening to ASEAN community is also a way to infiltrate other interesting languages that affect Thai people’s language learning. It could attract their attention to learn other foreign languages even though they do not understand how to use Thai with correct academic grammar levels beyond basic daily life usages such as reading, writing, and listening. These are visible cultural effects and are able to cause Thai culture to change unexpectedly.