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it's that time of the week when i get into a non tech rabbit hole for no fucking reason and i bring you all along with me a few days ago i was bored and browsing wikipedia late at night and I was curious to find out why Thailand was named like that since i recalled that historically it was called the Kingdom of Siam (i don't know too much about SEA but i remembered this small thing from a joke in an old Simpsons episode lol) turns out it got renamed in 1939 by a military dictator who took power in a coup and that the guy was straight up a Mussolini larper down to copying both his aesthetic and even the fucking fascist salute lol he also ended up allying with Japan/the axis but ironically just like italy they switched sides at the last second and ended up with the allies unfortunately all of this also meant he did stuff like banning traditional clothes (some of them exposed women's breasts and he wanted to stop that in order to be taken more "seriously" by western nations), pushing ethno-nationalism and in general trying to unify the nation under a singular “Thai” identity when eventually he was ousted from power the King regained power but a lot of the changes he made to the country ended up staying in place (including the new name of the country)
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