KHMER IN RATCHABURI: HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, EXISTENCE, IDENTITY AND BECOME SWALLOWED TO THAI-IZATION

Abstract

Article on Khmer Ratchaburi: history, development, existence, identity, and assimilation into Thailand. The objective is to study history and historical development. Use study methods from related documents and research. Written in the form of an academic article.

The results of the study confirm that the Khmer ethnic group has had a historical development since coming to settle in Ratchaburi. Together with other ethnic groups, due to war and international politics, Khmer, with its unique ethnic language and beliefs, was not very different from Siam. As a result, it eventually became Siam or Thailand. This appears as empirical evidence in the geography of the place where people lived and once settled. Still, many ways of life disappeared, including language, dress, and food, until it became a local Ratchaburi.