I don't think that's a fair comparison.

Sure I could help you man. I think it does exist, haven't you seen in the rural areas? None of them follow the western ways. Also there are Akha and Hmongs, who preserve their own culture. If you say it doesn't exist you obviously haven't been into rural Laos. Sadly, not everyone wants to fight off the modern world and some people even embrace it, so for those that still want to hold onto the old ways, you must hurry before development sets in.

I don't think it's necessary that improved living conditions and more knowledge means one has to follow others and be a copy-cat, but for some reason people seem to think this way. If there was a way to stop the modern world from enroaching on our land, I would find it.

Unfortunately, economic development destroys this, and makes them all conform to the global trash-culture of speaking English, wearing jeans, and listening to K-pop.

Yeah true although the Akha and some other hill people have resisted modernization for centuries and refused to assimilate to the cultures around them. Although just recently the various governments of Southeast Asia have been trying to pressure them so hard to assimilate, also those sick Christian missionaries are stealing their children.

It happens in northern thailand, look up "prisoners of a white god" on youtube. Its a video about the Akha

Please, the Thai government never cared about them or any other people besides Central Thais. The Thai government just see the hilltribes as a pest invading their great Thai land. Thai people discriminate so bad against all other Asian races except their holy Chinese emperor.

Well, they are getting "better lives" (maybe except the ones that got nailed by old perverted priests) but they might as well no longer be Akhas. They don't speak their language anymore, they cannot relate to their own parents, and well, their whole identity has been altered. What are those schools doing except producing more non-free thinking, Central Thai speaking drones that they can control?

They are basically dead already. I feel like if an Akha person can't speak Akha then their entire bloodline dies with them. So their life is just lived out not knowing who they even are.

Naw , he just lost