Continuing the investigation into attitudes about local-ancestry and citizenship…
Thais were asked “How important for citizenship — in your opinion — is having ancestors from this country?”
The pattern seen with China and South-Korea holds up:
#1 — “Voelkisch” attitudes have noticeably softened among lower-class Thai youth.
#2 — An across-the-board softening trend is seen for 30-50s when compared to Over-50s. This is dramatically reversed among the middle and especially upper class Under-30s.
#3 — “Voelkisch” attitudes among Thai youth skew weakly upper-class. Nothing as strong as Germany‘s completely lopsided result (the other way), but still there.
Among 100 Thai Youth Answering “Yes”,
33 are Upper-Class (30% overall)
42 are Middle-Class (43.5% overall)
25 are Lower-Class (26.5% overall)
What I don’t understand: How could 19-in-20 of the Young/Upper cohort say “Yes”, when ethnic-Chinese [whose ancestors were not there 500 years ago(?)] are probably over one-third of that group. (They are 14% overall, but quite wealthy).
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Confirmation of my finding that degree of ethnic-identity among young Orientals skews upper-class:
(From An Analysis of the Racial Experiences of People of Asian/White Heritage, University of Southern California, 2007).