The flag for the Thai language, not Thai people or Thai Political aspirations.
The colours of navy blue
and sea green reflect that language is the water element of a persons
identity. Like a water that fills a glass, whatever environment your
early mind is shaped in you will take on that identity. Learning a
language is like learning to swim, it takes time and practice and
eventually an ocean of information overtakes the mind. Many people can
only swim or sail in one type of ocean. Some persons who are native to
the English Ocean in the United States can paddle a little bit in the
Spanish Ocean. But nearly everyone in the United States can splash
around in the kiddie pools of France, Japan, or China since they may
know a few words: like Bonjour! Shay Shay? Oui! Domoarigato! It
takes time and a lot of practice to sail in difference Linguistic
Oceans, especially if you are a native to the English Ocean of Speech.
Remember
that most people in Canada and the United States may speak English, yet
are not English. Thus one should not confuse language with ethnicity as
is often the case with Spanish speakers, since there are many people
who sail the Spanish Ocean their entire lives, yet do not have one drop
of Spanish blood in the heart. Once again, there are many people with
English names in the USA who live their entire life in the English Ocean
and have absolutely no English blood flowing their veins.
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