New study digs deep to shatter myths about Isaan

Persistently discounted as gullible, desperate, and unsophisticated, the 22 million inhabitants of Isaan–about a third of the country’s population–have long borne the brunt of bias from Thailand’s urban middle class.

A new study by the Asia Foundation sets out to investigate if these biases hold any water through an in-depth survey of the attitudes and opinions of Isaan people.

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