Thai History: Why Was Siam (Thailand) Never Colonized?

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Did you know that Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia that a European power has not colonized?
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  • @gelodude07
    @gelodude079 ай бұрын

    Im Filipino and Thailand is our neighbor in southeast asia. i admire them avoiding colonization. Also Thailand is my first travel abroad. Thai women are also very beautiful.

  • @peterkovinski8476

    @peterkovinski8476

    4 ай бұрын

    We have a rat in the center of ASEAN called Malaysia

  • @johnconnor6725
    @johnconnor67254 ай бұрын

    Thailand is the only other place I'd like to live. I spent a month there in 85 visiting my Dad and sometimes wish that I would have moved there. And really should go back to enjoy the great country that it is.

  • @sun_s9067
    @sun_s90672 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much, from a Thai, for recognizing and give the credit where it dues i.e. to our forward thinking Kings 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Our Kings and the monarch have been the core institution that bring development and unity to Thai people.

  • @sayajinmamuang

    @sayajinmamuang

    11 ай бұрын

    It's a shame that despite all their contributions the royal monarchs past and present have brought to the land, That the current powers want to destroy and remove the monarchy. These people are not true thais at heart.

  • @thekittynews5802
    @thekittynews58022 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your clip. I really appreciated.

  • @user-nb4yo3bn2m
    @user-nb4yo3bn2m3 ай бұрын

    Your video clip is amazing. Hello, I am from Thailand. Thank you very much for your video clip that reveals the history of Thailand.❤❤❤❤❤

  • @MrMaksimmilian
    @MrMaksimmilian3 ай бұрын

    Siam in colonial era followed the Japanese model, when Japan got threatening from America. After that Japan started to reform the country to be more westernised. That's the same model to Siam in that time. King RamaV said the great phrase " We will act like them(Westerners) but we will never be them"

  • @paullak625
    @paullak6252 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this clip video from a Thai people ,you are understand us .

  • @zurazakut-sa4107
    @zurazakut-sa4107 Жыл бұрын

    British send they Ambassador, Sir. John Bowring (who remarkable succeeded in Hong Kong from China) for Re-Negotiation to Siam and then after signed the treaty, Siam appointed him to be the Siam's Ambassador to Europe! /// Once again of good examples about "Diplomacy" of Thailand.

  • @niradaclark7095
    @niradaclark70957 ай бұрын

    We need to know before this .

  • @User5467h-4etic
    @User5467h-4etic2 жыл бұрын

    We remember what the French and the British did to us.

  • @junejune7147

    @junejune7147

    7 ай бұрын

    Krama time to refuse them now a day

  • @robertmoir5695
    @robertmoir56952 жыл бұрын

    Siam was changed to Thailand before my time I d like to see an old map with Siam

  • @sayajinmamuang

    @sayajinmamuang

    11 ай бұрын

    Should change the name back to siam.

  • @py8554
    @py85542 жыл бұрын

    A bit of luck was there: Located between the sphere of influence of two colonial powers helped, as neither power wanted the other to grab it because it was too valuable to both sides. Kind of like what happened to Iran at around the same time.

  • @abmong

    @abmong

    2 жыл бұрын

    Actually the French tried pretty hard. It's a mix of luck of being a natural buffer zone, but some shrewd deplomacy went into making it and keeping it that way, and the fact that Siam was just united and strong enough to defend itself from the faraway European powers unwilling or unable to commit more forces to its conquest.

  • @siamchaiyo3349

    @siamchaiyo3349

    7 ай бұрын

    555 พวกคุณเชื่อข้ออ้างเหล่านี้ เพราะคุณอิจฉาไทย

  • @vassanab4243

    @vassanab4243

    2 ай бұрын

    Nothing about luck. Do you really think that the British and French couldn’t talk to share the land?. The buffer zone can be small city not the whole country. Btw Siam or now Thailand lost like half of their land to save their ass from the colonizer both France and British

  • @smart7223

    @smart7223

    2 ай бұрын

    It’s about compromising and adaptation of the king, not luck.

  • @StoicHistorian
    @StoicHistorian Жыл бұрын

    What an interesting country

  • @pantaatruangekvithyagul7787
    @pantaatruangekvithyagul7787 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much.

  • @bonnydonna
    @bonnydonna2 жыл бұрын

    Great vdo. Thank you. ❤️

  • @mathonamoore123
    @mathonamoore1232 жыл бұрын

    First lol 28th of November 2021. Love from rainy and cold, Ireland x

  • @curiodyssey3867

    @curiodyssey3867

    2 жыл бұрын

    Love from Sacramento, California, U.S.!

  • @macmcelveen1241
    @macmcelveen12412 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from west by God Virginia... 30 degrees.. it has to warm up to be freezing.

  • @PaGDu333

    @PaGDu333

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m Thai, 19 degrees is literally freezing for us

  • @toywatch3503
    @toywatch35039 ай бұрын

    The word buffer means that there are at least two coordinated forces that act as buffers. The truth in past history Colonial hunter nation, Hunting territories all over the world. There was negotiations between the colonizing countries or they cooperated in the hunt. to get that land, Most of them will agree to demarcate the border... Thailand colonized by colonizers At least two nations entered into colonization, which shows that Thailand had more pressure than many colonial nations that were successfully colonized by only one colonizer. But, In the case of Thailand Despite the intervention of colonists from many nations It's still not successful. Therefore, the word buffer is a strategy that Thailand has established. Let the colonizers be fooled. They cannot use the method of conspiring to colonize Thailand as successfully as colonists have done in the recorded history of the world. It's not any superstition.

  • @DanDaFreakinMan

    @DanDaFreakinMan

    6 ай бұрын

    Doesn't help that the British and the French were on the verge of killing each other for the longest time.

  • @dannysajeff
    @dannysajeff2 ай бұрын

    As a Thai women whose have Portuguese, Indian, Chinese, mon descentec im proudly to said that we are free . Thai meaning Freedom.

  • @pakteemaudomkiratak3725
    @pakteemaudomkiratak3725 Жыл бұрын

    Japan:ahhhhhhhhhhhh,WE LOST Thailand:I'm netrual Japan:YOU ARE MY SIDE Thailand:nahhh...

  • @DanDaFreakinMan

    @DanDaFreakinMan

    6 ай бұрын

    "I never met this man in my entire life!"

  • @walkertongdee
    @walkertongdee2 ай бұрын

    It was not necessary to ban The King and I, it was hated by all Thais because it portrayed their beloved monarch as a dancing fool.

  • @escapefelicity2913
    @escapefelicity29136 ай бұрын

    The country across the Mekong is Lao. NOT LOUSE

  • @cartoonslowlife2172
    @cartoonslowlife21724 ай бұрын

    🎉

  • @Wongwanchungwongjumbo
    @Wongwanchungwongjumbo3 ай бұрын

    Japan was another Country, that Escaped Colonialism too earlier than Thailand 🇹🇭

  • @nipunudara1878
    @nipunudara18782 жыл бұрын

    Your thumbnail is fake plz remove it.it belongs to Sri Lanka! It's Sri Lankan art

  • @DanDaFreakinMan

    @DanDaFreakinMan

    6 ай бұрын

    Huh?

  • @pichupuche2474
    @pichupuche24746 ай бұрын

    Unfortunately, the information you cite is only based on Western colonization of Asian nations. Didn't find information from all sides.

  • @mohdradzi5072
    @mohdradzi50728 ай бұрын

    Siam Ayutthaya ended in 1767 at the ploy of the British espionage and Burma. For that the British betrayed the Burmese and partnered with the babysitted Chakri Dynasty to colonize Burma and divided the land of Ayutthaya into Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaya. You need not to colonize a former superpower after you had broke it apart and get to anoint your proxy as the succeeding monarch.

  • @russhassell9742
    @russhassell97422 жыл бұрын

    not a globe flat non moving firmement

  • @user-tf9qr6fe6e
    @user-tf9qr6fe6e6 ай бұрын

    ฝรั่งทพมาค้าขายตั้งแต่แดีด

  • @user-ks4qn4dw6v
    @user-ks4qn4dw6v Жыл бұрын

    Actually, Siam is unity state and stronger than India(too Many small state) and Burmese .I think British have an experience in a War with Burmese , its Not worth for the risk. Because Siamese is Stronger than Burmese. It might be the unnecessary loss.

  • @terraminsan7392

    @terraminsan7392

    10 ай бұрын

    Lol,in first Anglo-Burma war who lick British foot and Help her with tens of thousand soilder?

  • @__-is9ug

    @__-is9ug

    9 ай бұрын

    @@terraminsan7392 Burmese are thai slave anyway🤣🤣😂😂

  • @DanDaFreakinMan

    @DanDaFreakinMan

    6 ай бұрын

    I'm positive the Burmese were stronger than us Thai. 😂 Otherwise we'd win the war. They are however not as good as diplomacy, which led to their colonization.

  • @__-is9ug

    @__-is9ug

    6 ай бұрын

    @@DanDaFreakinMan ฺBurmese are Weak

  • @seanbhu858
    @seanbhu858 Жыл бұрын

    Your information is very messed up. Where did you go to study the history of Siam?

  • @sayajinmamuang

    @sayajinmamuang

    11 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂 all of this is internationally accepted information. Let me guess your one of those thai people that deny history and say khmer never built angkor? 😂

  • @iROChakri

    @iROChakri

    10 ай бұрын

    @@sayajinmamuang There will always be some delusional nationalists in every country. Just like many Cambodian people who deny Cambodian cultures came from Thailand. Everyone around the world knows Cambodia came from Thailand when Thailand gave their piece of land to French. Thus, Cambodian cultures today pretty much just Thai cultures 😂😂😂

  • @__-is9ug

    @__-is9ug

    9 ай бұрын

    @@sayajinmamuang DONT FORGET WHO CONQUER KHMER🤣😂😂😂

  • @prabpokkaew713

    @prabpokkaew713

    7 ай бұрын

    Next time dont skip History class

  • @__-is9ug

    @__-is9ug

    7 ай бұрын

    Colony of Siam😂🤣😂💪💪💪🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭