Hej
Till mångas förtret är nog det bästa exemplet på en person som har gjort en riktig klassresa i Thailand landets valde PM Thaksin.
Och det är nog en av anledningarna till att adel och kungahuset närstående inte accepterar honom.
Mvh Isan Lover
Host, host...
Klassresa? Thaksin? Du måste driva med oss?
Detta är ett utdrag från hans Wikipediasida, men det är en hyfsad sammanställning av Thaksins och hans familjs bakgrund.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaksin_Shinawatra
Thaksin was born in San Kamphaeng, Chiang Mai province. He lived in the village of San Kamphaeng until he was 15, then moved to Chiang Mai city to study at Montfort College. At 16, he helped run one of his father's cinemas.[28]
Thaksin's great-great-grandfather Seng Sae Khu was a Hakka Chinese immigrant from Meizhou, Guangdong who arrived in Siam in the 1860s and settled in Chiang Mai in 1908. His eldest son, Chiang Sae Khu, was born in 1890 and married a Thai woman, Saeng Somna. Chiang's eldest son, Sak, adopted the Thai surname Shinawatra ("does good routinely") in 1938, and the rest of the family followed suit.
Thaksin's father, Lert, was born in Chiang Mai in 1919 and married Yindi Ramingwong (a daughter of Princess Jantip Na Chiang Mai). In 1968, Lert Shinawatra entered politics and became an MP for Chiang Mai.
Seng Sae Khu made his fortune through tax farming. The Khu/Shinawatra family later founded Shinawatra Silks and then moved into finance, construction and property development. Lert Shinawatra opened a coffee shop and several businesses, and grew oranges and flowers in Chiang Mai's San Kamphaeng district. By the time Thaksin was born, the extended Shinawatra family was one of the richest and most influential in Chiang Mai.Thaksin married Potjaman Damapong in 1980. They have one son, Panthongtae and two daughters, Pintongtha and Peathongtarn. They divorced in 2008.[29]
Han föddes ju inte precis i en familj av proletärer och fattiga risbönder?