Such claims had little impact on foreign powers. As it was classified in several World’s Fairs, despite being independent, Siam remained among the backward nations. Despite being independent, it was among the crypto-colonies. The history of Sukhothai has had huge impacts on the historical consciousness of the Thai people. Like the impact of Chulalongkorn’s trips to Europe, the claim for civilisational superiority was for domestic consumption. Since the inception of its history – here I mean in the 1900s, not the thirteenth century – Sukhothai was like the Thai Golden Age, which Thai of all political ideologies (the royalists, non-royalists, nationalist, conservatives and liberals) relish