For those kids who are proud of their ancestral land, I think that it is a very good spirit and a good deed to remember their ancestor achievements. They deserve compliments, but their ancestors are not the only people who inhabit SEA mainland and the only native tribe that exist. In South Thai, we also accepted Tai people in the history line because that is the fact, nothing to be ashamed of when we are colonized by them in Southern Thai because our ancestors here did fights back although being defeated without any help by any other "powerful empire". We were suppressed even until 19th C by Burmese, Central Siam, and not to forget bastard British...
FYI, Burmese are not Mon people, Mon people are natives. Those of Suphannaphum dynasty in Central Siam were primarily live there before the attacks of Khmer empire or Angkor around 9th C. Their former civilizations were burnt and people were taken as slaves. Some of them have to seek refuge in lower Burma and that is how Lower Burma being related to the Dvaravadi people (Suphannaphum). Many researches being done by International scholars and actually they only realize the sisterhood of the Mon language of Lower Burma with those of Dvaravadi in Central Siam after 70 years of deep research... We call them in Dvaravadi in our language as Chao Bon, not Mon...
Suphannaphum is our rendition for Suvarnabhumi and it means Golden Land, while SUmatera in Indonesia part was known as Suvarnadvipa or the Golden Island... Suvarnabhumi covers up Central Thailand area today, Lower Burma and Southern Thailand and it continues to Singapore... Singapore was once under Nakhorn Sri Thammarat supervision. All of the Southern Thai states were supervised by Nakhorn Sri Thammarat, but the superior kingdom of Southern Thai was actually Langkasuka or Patani. Patani part became Muslim kingdom around 9th C when a group of Malays in refuge from Northern Sumatera preach the religion to the tribal king there who was a Mahayana Buddhist at that time... The king gave a piece of land to those Muslim Malay preachers in Patani known as Kampong Malayu, it is near the paknam port... And Patani is the Eastern part of Langkasuka. Muang Saiburee or Kedah which is now in Malaysia today was the Western part of Langkasuka and I was born in this part of state. It was broken apart from Langkasuka when an Indo-Aryan (Persian Hindu) king enters with his ministers into the land from Andaman sea after the previous dynasty king passed away. The locals had to appoint a king because they need to unify their people with a ruler. There are also chronicles which linked us to Sri Lanka tradition which is Mahawong chronicle and several Hindu Purannas and epic about Maurya Empire...
If some of you don't believe my history narration or thinking that I am a nationalishi-t, go on, I know about South Thai area even more than of those in Central Thai, but I also respect them and their local culture... I don't even care about Malaysia but I will kick the heads of people who insult South Thai states and my state in Northern Malaysia just like Nang Hari who is proud of here area and native kingdoms... Our kingdoms account of history too can be dug up in Indian sources, not only Chinese sources... Open up Pattinapalai poem in Tamil, Kathasaritsagaram in Sanskrit, Nagarakartagama in Javanese... Muang Saiburee name being mentioned as Kedah, Kadaram, Kataram, Kataha, and etc... There are also Arab accounts about us showing that our area being visited by people around the world for business and merchandise... I don't know about other areas in SEA except about my people...
Many events happened and you won't understand it only in a single day because you will have to learn about your ancestors glorious achievements too because it is important for your newly reformed countries in SEA, we normally don't bad mouthing Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and etc but in Malaysia, we have problems with Indonesia. You won't understand it too if you never learn about their past and bickerings of ancient kingdoms there and in here. We already learned to accept facts and also we know about others achievements as well...
I'm not licking Central Thai kingdom, I know the history part from our side here. We are not in Thailand and not everyone knows about this unless if you have contacts with Historical Associations...
Langkasuka Kingdom of 1st Century still survives in both Southern Thailand and Northern Malaysia today in the form of states, but those in Southern Thai royal system had been banished once general Thaksin banished the rebellions of the Southern royals, and it still continues after Chakri dynasty holding the mandalas... We won't blame Chakri dynasty, it's already happened, nobody to be blamed anymore... The native people of South Thai are divided to Buddhist and Muslim... Most deep South kings became Muslim and those in Lower Burma near sea too became Muslim, but those kings who remain Buddhist siding with Sukhothai in 12th C including Chaiyya king... Muang Saiburee king embraced Hinduism when Chola kingdom from South India helped them to be free from Srivijai in 10th C, they had also lighted the lamp in Chola kingdom temple in India, there are the record in Indian museum... but around 11th C, the Phra Ong of the state embrace Islam after Muslim missionary/merchant preach the religion to him, I had read their account of history called Marong Mahawong, last chapter... Ligor is the Malay name for Nakhorn Si Thammarat, it's from Portuguese mispronunciation...

Muang Saiburee... Consist of Kedah, Perlis, and Pulau Pinang (Koh Mak)... Central Thai kingdom still consider us as their citizen, last seven years I can enter South Thai to the area of Yala without passport, simply by filling the border-pass... Kedah, Kalantan, Terengganu, n North Perak were traded by British with Patani through Anglo-Siam treaty... We're not either British daddy's land or anyone belongings while Malaysia was formed under British suppression... We have our own kingdom which is Langkasuka...
