I learned about this a few days ago: Thais are angered at an American movie called Hollywood Buddha. The movie promotional poster shows the lead character sitting on top of Buddha's head. Anyone with an ounce of sensitivity to sacred holy objects would know this is wrong, or at least you'd think that since the story is about a movie director who adopts Buddhist practices, the writers would have done a little research about Buddhist cultures and found out that the head is the most sacred part of the body, and certainly climbing on top of the head is considered blasphemy. There is a BBC article about this story here and the Thais have since decided to publish a booklet about do's and don'ts when visiting their country and even ban people from Thailand who know better and decide to be rude anyway. I don't know how they will enforce such a law, but good luck to them.
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