Re: Bondi Beach Guesthouse: Jomtien
Show me a farang that complains of Thais treating him like scum, and I'll show you someone who would be treated as scum in their home country as well. They come here and want to be treated like the Great White Man-God, when they are really just low-class trash from the dregs of their own societies.
Re: Bondi Beach Guesthouse: Jomtien
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Originally Posted by cdnmatt
It's as if some farangs view Thais as this really weird, malformed breed of humans, or something.
These are the same people that haven't bothered learning one word of Thai and think that speaking louder will assist communication. I think too many people assume if someone doesn't speak good English that they aren't smart. That's very dim-witted. Any native English speaker that has tried to learn a tonal language would have a lot more empathy.
There are things that I really love about the Thais in my brief stay...one guy that I've spent a few nights with is working to set me up with a cute coworker of his that doesn't speak much English. That is something that I just couldn't imagine happening in the US. I saw that same sort of thing happen in Amsterdam as well...the States seems so stifling in some ways.