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9 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

When visiting the bridge over the River Kwai I took a tour of the museum there. It was stated, in Thai and English, that 10 times as many Thais died in the construction of the Burma Railroad as all the allied troops combined. I don't know how true that is but that is what Thais are taught.

I think that larger number was SE Asian forced labour in general and were mostly Burmese and Malayan (Romusha). If you take figures (which vary) at about 13,000 captured troops (westerners) and 90,000 Romusha of those who died, that seems to tie in. But the majority of the Asians who died were Burmese and Malayan.

From the data I can see it would be a very small amount of Thais that died or even worked on the railway.

10x amount of Asians would be a "yes". 10X of Thais would I believe be a "no".

8 minutes ago, Yinn said:

If the bombing in Cold War I not know.

 

i know about US and England bomb us in that war.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Bangkok_in_World_War_II

 

and I know we win, the farang lose. Victory monument Bangkok.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Thai_War

 

 

I think the farang education system not teach about thai- Burma wars. 

So we not really interested in the farang war. Same.

 

ps. I did try to understand the WW2 war before and why. But it very complicated. Can not.

 

pss. I not mention WW2 in the post, because not our lifetime.

 

pss. My op was to help make peace, understand together, so farang know that farang is not word to get angry about.

But I fail. Now worse I think. 5555555

The Victory Monument is really a reminder of how Thailand sided with the losing side in WW2. The supposed victory was really more of a stagnation with the Japanese intervening which led to a treaty. 

Interesting to use the word "homage". I wonder if they are aware of its full meaning?

2 hours ago, Yinn said:

MY THRED, my rule.

 

please,watch the op video BEFORE post comment. This thred not for arguement. Just for learn.

 

Thankyou. 

No sorry, it is not your thread and your rules!

This is a discussion forum and as such everyone is entitled to their angle, point of view and contribution. To appoint yourself as the only person that knows the "answer" is simply presumptuous and childish. Please show some manners and humility.

15 minutes ago, nikmar said:

i can live with it. no biggie. but hasnt this subject been done to death. There ll be a post asking us if we believe in God next!!

Or "Was God a Farang?"  !!

How about "Kaek" ? Do Indians regard that as polite?

On a technical level it is a kind of collective noun for white westerners. But then so is women and I would object to being addressed as "you, woman". It is simply not polite.

11 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Thankyou.

But I think it will make problem with the “personal insult” rule. 

The qoutes real. 

I can mail that if you need.

How can a quote be a personal insult if they are saying it themselves.

Without using the proper quote mechanism , it simply looks as though you are cherry picking through posts and picking up bits that you disagree with . Also very hard to know the context of these supposed quotes which can lead to the meaning being altered.

The OP is made up of 20 + supposed quotes!

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

Absolutely correct Khun Prayut Chan O Cha. 

Well stated and hopefully other departments and civil servants will heed his words and provide better and more effective cooperation amongst each other. Thailand has come along way since Khun Prayut took control and I can only see more job creation, more domestic growth and more infrastructure development taking place throughout Thailand over the next 10-20 years.

Good job again Khun Prayut Chan O Cha 

 

 

I presume like me , you are unable to find the "sarcasm emoji" !!!

If I may make a suggestion; maybe not a good idea to start threads that just take multiple supposed quotes and then try to use them as examples. If you are going to use a quote then you need to have evidence of who posted and when. Pretty much like quoting various literary sources when writing an essay but omitting the bibliography. Nobody knows where the supposed quotes came from or even if they actually exist.

It makes the piece of writing invalid.

So pretty much in the same way you have invalidated your original post.

Then there is the whole other topic of whether TVF members actually do and think the same as they post!

Quite frankly, I wouldn't know where to start on this one. Not even all Thai people like other Thai people. I also find the argument logically flawed in that one person can supposedly speak on the behalf of the entire Thai collective.

This is a forum and often not a serious one. It is often the case that someone may spout off , before they have had their morning caffeine intake. Fatal mistake!

Just as Thai's often post bizarre inanities on Facebook , so do the "farang" on TVF.