In Thailand, just like in our country, many cars have a little statue of a god on the dashboard for good luck. Unlike the ones in India, the idol in Thai cars most often faces not those inside the car but is turned around to face the road.
The attitude we have is—“make sure I am safe”. The attitude of the Thais is - “watch over the road so that nobody gets hurt.”
The Thais are a clean nation. Even when their nation was relatively poor, and in fact as poor as India, the public space was clean. Their public toilets today are almost inevitably spotless and as good and often better than those in European nations. Between Bangkok's streets and those of Mumbai and Delhi, and also Dhaka and Lahore and Karachi, there is no contest. We are a developing nation (where what is being 'developed' is not just the economy but also the civilization and culture, which is still primitive). Thailand is developed, and one thing I attribute this to is the Hinayana school, also called Theravada, of Buddhism that they follow. There is a certain sameness to those nations—Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma and so on—that follow Theravada. However, that is going off on a different track.