Thai is a tonal language - that is the tone used to pronounce a word can change its meaning. Thai has five tones -- low, middle, high, rising and falling. For example, the word 'mai' in a falling tone means 'not' but at the end of a sentence with a high tone it indicates a question.
Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is an academic discipline that analyzes, explains, and responds to the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism. Postcolonialism speaks about the human consequences of external control and economic exploitation of a native people and its lands.
The New Imperialism (sometimes Neoimperialism or Neo-imperialism) was a period of colonial expansion âand its accompanying ideologiesâby the European powers, the United States of America and the Empire of Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.ew Imperialism gave rise to new social views of colonialism. Rudyard Kipling, for instance, urged the United States to Take up the White Man's burden of bringing European civilization to the other peoples of the world, regardless of whether these other peoples wanted this civilization or not.