black gay in Thailand

[paborn]

Christian, Aresenal is quite right. This was in 1989, just before the Tiananmen protest. The company i worked for had a consulting contract regarding tourism promotions and we were met by officials and escorted through like diplomatic staff. I paused and asked the young man for some sort of stamp as a mememto - he kindly gave me one. Just ideograms. God knows what it says. The point is he was kind to me yet refused to acknowledge the black person behind me. For decades I nevefr got a stamp returning to the US.

[gerefan2]

You never get a stamp from your own country. Still dont.

You never got a stamp in Europe if you were a visitor from another European country.

Everywhere else I always got one.

[paborn]

Gerefan,
I don't know how this became a passport stamp discussion. But, for years the US did not stamp, post 9/11 they did. now they scan your passport and don't stamp it - they stamp the customs form. Again Europe stamped for years then traveling intra EU you did not even see immigration . Whether the EU is now stamping I don't know or Frankly care as the point of my story was that a black person behind me was refused.

[gerefan2]

yeah who cares...

[Nirish guy]

Back to the black problem!

Spoken just like a true Trump supporter ! :-)

Oh and on the stamp thing I recently got stopped going into Thailand because I'd a new passport with NO stamps in it ! I wasn't even thinking about the passport lady or immigration control when I noticed her speaking to me, I'd to stop and re concentrate to hear her asking "why no stamps" and had to ask her to repeat the question! She then did but added with a suspicious look in her yet...."new passport? why ?" to which I said "yes it is of course, as you can see by the recent issue date" ( which needless to say didn't go down well :-) So, I've had to make a point of ensuring everywhere DOES now stamp it everywhere I go just to fill a page or two to avoid the worrying and accusatorial looks of am I some "CDNMatt" playing "ohhh I the spilt my coffee on it and ruined my old passport" but for some underhand reason to avoid the suspicious looks from them !

Oh and getting back to the subect at hand the only and main comment I've heard Thai boys saying about Black people when they said they wouldn't go with them was " noooo, to big, hurt" - but I'm guessing that's more to do with hearsay than practice plus lets be honest several of the guys I'm thinking of could have managed a large marrow with ease and hardly noticed ! :-)

[scottish-guy]

.... several of the guys I'm thinking of could have managed a large marrow with ease and hardly noticed ! :-)

[paborn]

yeah who cares...

Having a bad day are we?

[gerefan2]

No, but you clearly want to get back on topic, so I left it!

[poshglasgow]

You shouldn't have any problems on the commercial sex scene where, as has been said, money rules. But prejudice against blacks does exist in Thailand. I had a friend who was an ebony-black American; he lived in Pattaya for several years but eventually returned to the US completely disillusioned with Thais and Thailand. He described disrespectful treatment in restaurants and shops, staring in the streets, that kind of thing. Some might have the personality to brush off such incidents but they ground my friend down in the end.

I recall very clearly in 1993 seeing a restaurant on second road with a notice in the window that stated: "No Blacks!" It made me feel very uncomfortable. I thought... London circa 1950s??

I felt uncomfortable because it was a medical team of black nurses and doctors in Wolverhampton that saved my brother - a white senior police officer in the Met - when he was at death's door! They were black and knew that my brother was a police officer within a police force that was condemned by Sir William Macpherson, some years later in 1997, as being 'institutionally racist'. I think Bill (Cluny, now retired and living in Scotland, head of the Macpherson clan in those days) could have added 'homophobic' to his list of shortcomings in 1997!

As the Thais claim to do: seek to judge a person by the warmth of their heart! Now, whether or not the Thais do so on every occasion, it is, nevertheless, how I seek to judge people that I encounter.

[sglad]

As the Thais claim to do: seek to judge a person by the warmth of their heart! Now, whether or not the Thais do so on every occasion, it is, nevertheless, how I seek to judge people that I encounter.

Oh puh-leez. You're BS-ing the wrong crowd here. We all know you judge them by the warmth of their hearts AND the hardness of their dicks.