<p>The seminal <em>Imagined Communities</em> by Benedict Anderson is one of those works which joins up dots you had never before thought were even on the same page.&nbsp; And hence the insights.&nbsp; It appears on graduate reading lists for all manner of degrees.</p> <p>But it is a dense text.&nbsp; And should a successful product of the Thai education system, a student accepted for a graduate programme overseas, be asked to read it, the result is unlikely to be satisfactory.&nbsp; Thai students don’t do dense texts.</p>