Noted: The red shirts are seen as poorly educated provincials, who do not speak standard Thai but a dialect halfway between Thai and Laotian. They are caricatured as ?savages?, ?barbarians? or ?buffalos? who should be sent back to the countryside. Thongchai Winichakul, a Thai history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said well-to-do Bangkokians see the red shirts as ?dirty, ugly, vulgar, low, inferior people? ? country bumpkins.
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