This is one thing I'll never understand. I keep telling Leo to go find friends to play sports with, or go to the movies / markets / eat with, or whatever.
He always replies the same. He hates Thai people, and his mother warned him against making friends with Thais. For fuck sakes, you live 250km down the road. I guess you may have had different history lessons in school, but aside from that, you're the exact same people.