Intermarriage
Intermarriage is not new in Thailand. According to Sumalee Bumroongsook, Love and Marriage (1995), the Three-Seal Law Code, decreed in the early nineteenth. century, forbade all citizens, specially the The thai and the Mon, from marrying their daughters or nieces to "foreigners: English, Dutch, Javanese, and Malay, that is those who have different religions." The law was neither strictly enforced nor popular. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many foreigners who stayed in Thailand married Thai women. In 1897, a new law was made to regulate intermarriage in Thailand. However, intermarriage seemed not to be popular. Bumroongsook cited a scene in a play written by Phichit Aknit (quoted in Bumroongsook 1995, 72-79) about a mother who was upset with her daughter and scolded her daughter as follows: