Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Mexican Buddhist Cholos of Thailand

WARNING: Graphic use of recreational cannabis (ganja, weed, pot, dope, marijuana, Maryjane, etc.)
Oh, is this why Cypress Hill likes "Fat Happy Buddha" (actually not the Buddha but Budai) so much?
Meet Thailand's 'Chicano' Buddhist community
(AFP News Agency) AFP (Agence France-Presse) is funded in whole or in part by the French government. [Did some Thai people just get back from Tokyo, Japan, or Los Angeles, California?]

Dressed in baggy t-shirts and jeans, with bandanas and wraparound sunglasses only partially obscuring their intricate tattoos, Thai Buddhists can now be seen gangbanging on Bangkok's sweaty gangland streets, celebrating a fusion of their own Buddhist and Mexican American (Chicano) culture each weekend.

But while the Chicano Movement in the US began as a political and social force aimed at battling oppression, its Thai interpretation is focused more on its aesthetics and cool style.


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  • AFP, March 19, 2022; Cypress Hill (LA Latino gangster-rappers); Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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