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Essay About Personal Connection

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We live in a country where personal connection is needed for living. If you want to have a good working life or get promoted at work, you need to make sure that you have a connection with your boss or someone who is influential enough. Personal Connection is a tool that Thai people wish to have since the past time until now. They believe that with a personal connection, everything will be achieved without great effort. Compared with other country’s working structure like U.S., the way employees get into government sector is you have to be smart and patient enough to get in while in Thai government sector, it’s mostly about personal connection. If you know someone at the top, you will get a job effortlessly. We don’t know who started this but …show more content…

Having a personal connection may benefit our own interest but also it could harm the society unimaginatively. Looking at Thailand today, a highly corrupt country which is facing with many problems and most of them occur because of the corruption; and personal connection is a part of it. However, Thai people seem to have a little problem with corruption because these things have been established since the historical time. For the case of Thaksin Chinnawat, the ex prime minister, he was known as the most corrupted politician in Thai history. The way he corrupted is to use his personal connection to help his family and friends making money in a wrong way which violating the laws. However, this kind of action was not done by him for the first time. It happened before and still happen …show more content…

Everyone wish to be in a group to feel safe. To make a group effectively, you need orders so that it tells who you should connect with. Thus, we can say that in this collectivism society, connection is a must. Lucian M. Hanks et. al state that Thailand has a structure where people were determined their status by different social class. People who have a connection between with a different ranking will benefit from collaborating with each other. When we have an obvious social class like Sakdina, we call this connection between different ranking as a “Patronage” system, however there are many kinds of connection; Patronage is just one of

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