Yes, contrary to popular belief, Thai news and many entries on this blog – Origami is not the be-all and end-all of Thailand.
Now that the ‘dropping’ has occured I pray we can resume our normal programming because I would hate to be deported after murdering someone for mention anything about paper cranes being dropped on the south of Thailand (argh! I just did it!).
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I think it’s ironic that we insist that there is more to Thailand than the paper crane craze, and then every other blog on this site is about paper cranes =)
I guess we all have secret OCD obsessions with paper cranes. ;)
I was wondering…do paper cranes folded in Thailand have to be called Origami? A lot of media outlets were using that term. Is there a general term used for folded paper?
I have always associated origami with Japan. Do they have the worldwide patent on folded paper objects. What do you call a paper airplane folded by a 3rd grader in the US?
Origami comes from the Japanese words for to fold (oru) and paper (kami). I guss people just refer to any (fairly intriate) paper folder with a designed shape in mind as “origami” these days. TBH I’m not sure any “official” source ever used the word. Everyone just seemed to be into “folding paper cranes”.
Also, I read somewhere they were, initially, supposed to be doves (of peace, i assume) but that got confused and they ended up as meaningless Cranes!
so are there any reports of someone getting the crane folded by the King?
I didnt know the King had done one – what does the finder get? No one has found the PM’s one from what I gather.
Oh, I got confused whether it was the King or PM, but according to this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4069471.stm whoever finds the crane the PM made gets a scholarship. I gather after hearing most of the paper birds didn’t even make it to the land that there’s a big possibility that no one found it.