Thai Customs And Etiquette.

The Three Spirits

The Thai attitude toward life rests on three major concepts.The first,jai yen,or"cool heart"explains the Thai aversion to any sort of confrontation,
especially in public.Most Thais avoid raising their voices or displaying any visible irritation,instead embracing the ideas of mai pen rai,literally translated s "it can't be helped,so why bother?.This verbal equivalent of a shrug is ideally complemented by the last of the three Thai spirits,sanuk,
which literally means "fun".Thais believe that everthing in life should have a little bit of sanuk, or else everything degenerates into mere drudgery,Join in the national water fight during Songkran in April

for a healthy helping of Sanuk..