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.
'Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory.' Postcolonial criticism 'is a specifically post-modern intellectual discourse that consists of reactions to, and analysis of, the cultural legacy of colonialism.' This essay will discuss a post-colonial approach to colonialism in The Tempest ...