1993 APT1 Conference : Identity, tradition and change

But the fascination is that through the myraid of chaos and disorder, fractures, dislocations, and chinks reveal most exciting images of cultural clash and estrangement. Therefore, to know thyself by scrutinizing others the external viewer is encouraged to lock at the spaces of contradiction and dichotomy instead of homogenous wholes. After all, the fatal attraction of the exoticized Other will eventually reveal that 'Asia', in this case Thailand, is often not what outsiders imagine to be. APINAN POSHYANANDA / v p f 7b (if07€7> fir& u fjr v s s /<? . 9