Creative Media: Friendship for Children in the Multicultural Way of the Southern Border

Abstract

The unrest in the three southern border provinces is a major problem for national security and affects people in the area, especially children. The purpose of this study was to study the influence of creative media on friendship building for children in the three southern border provinces. A sample of 10 key informants in the case study area (Yala Province) was obtained by purposive selection. Research tools included the analysis of documents and related research. Semi-structured interviews were conducted using data analysis techniques to classify data by analyzing key words. The results of the conceptual study found that. - 1) Types of media can be divided into 2 kinds: print media and electronic media. 2) The benefits of media made children learn effectively, instilling friendships with children well. 3) Media affecting children in Yala province was culturally diverse, so children’s perceptions of media were not the same. There were some types of media that still had restrictions on religion and language. It can be concluded that print media is the media that children in the area are interested in and was popular, especially among Thai Muslim children who still used the Malay language and the type of music media in which the children listened to and sing Anasyid songs. Thai Buddhist children and Thai children of Chinese descent learned media similarly. Thai children of Chinese descent will have had latent learning of the Chinese language, so family is an important part of the media channel that can deliver messages to children and cultivate friendships by using appropriate media in the southern border areas for children to live happily

Keywords

• multicultural children
• multiculturalism
• friendship
• southern border