NorthernRyland

My first year in Thailand I was talking to my uncles Thai wife and she told me a phrase they have because I was interested in learning Thai. It was "between a snake and an Indian who do you hit first?" and the answer was the Indian. Anyone here that one before? She was from Nakon Phanom in Isaan. It wasn't Indian though it was the Thai word they use for Indians and Arabs, kind of like Farang for us.

Not even Pattaya. Look at Canada. They totally displaced the Canadians. Same thing is happening in Thailand too.

What I don't understand is why TAT claims tourism revenue is up. The major groups are now Chinese, Malaysians, Indians and Russians. How is that translating to higher spending per tourist?

Indeed. In fact Gandhi himself had racial tensions with blacks in South Africa. During colonial times he believed the Indians were superior to black Africans and resented the British mixing them into the same category. IMO he's vastly overstated the stared Indo-Aryan heritage between Europeans and Indians. More so than Africans obviously but not by much. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/4/7/coming-to-terms-with-gandhis-complicated-legacy

how? The "kao" and "rao" rhyme. That's why it works. They're also a special group, kind of like the native Americans in the US. They're their own nation but integrated into the country legally. I think that's why the phrase exists. It's like "yeah your thai, but not really". It's certainly racist and exclusionary language.

reminds of this

what could?

This pretty much sums it up. No one is retiring in India or looking for Indian wives overseas. People generally won't even vacation in Indian. Yet they're swarming countries in massive numbers. There's no debate about this. You can be anti-racist and decry racism blah blah blah but that doesn't change the reality.

This reminded me. since we're talking about Indians check out this cute Indian girl arguing with some black women. N-bombs away! Race war USA is going multiracial now. How exciting.

Are you guys in the US? Some years ago I was in the southern US for 1 year and my Thai wife came to visit. We ended up going to the house of some other Thai women with her husband. At one point she was complaining about how the blacks were illegally fishing in their private lake. How funny, this is a common complaint with us and Thai's. Sadly I didn't hear any n-bombs dropped. That would have been memorable.

The point of the video was the comments. There's another video I posted shortly after that with the same kind of comments. I see this over and over again.

I'm not saying that single video was evidence, just a citation in a trend I've seen on social media. Any time Indians come up in Thailand related comment look at the comments and see all the hate they get. They're now one the most dominate groups of tourists in Thailand and indeed even immigrants in western countries. This would be fine except India is country most people avoid so why isn't surprising they get backlash when coming these numbers?

"How dare you not sell me that thing which you don't have!" they should stick up an e-cigarette up his butt for this kind of behavior.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27775327

what banks allow tourist visa holders to get an account? I had to jump through hoops to get mine with a non-o at Bangkok Bank and they told me that was the only bank that would even do it.

My boss my boss is a first generation Indian American and his girlfriend is Indian too. She's very cute actually. I think they age really poorly from what I can tell though. These are both very light skinned Indians though so not the typical Indian look.

I'm not making any rules and saying we can come to Thailand and they can't, I'm just observing the incompatibilities and peoples negative opinions of them on social media.

I did actually get my Thai wife to overcome her prejudice against Indian food (said it was smelly) and now she loves it, especially the lamb.

maybe because they saw videos like this? That wouldn't fly in Thailand.

Yup. 50% Indian, 50% Russian. 100% tourist trap. Damn shame since those rock formations were very lovely.

You're confused because you hold the magical belief that all groups of people are the same. Once you understand this is false it will make more sense.

not all groups are the same. Again look at which countries Thai people move to and live in. It's revealed preference, that tells you who they prefer.

I'm curious how much of their major infrastructure they build. I assume the original towers in Bangkok were helped by foreign companies until they learned, but how much have they? I know that recent tower that collapsed had foreign companies involved so I wonder how many others are like this. Ditto for the massive and very impressive malls.

No you're right I have heard people say they don't like some groups but the topic needs to come up. I had my landlord and this other complain guy complain about the Hmong's driving before but I started that one up myself. I've tried to get my wife to go some markets which apparently Burmese and she was repulsed by the idea. Other random examples like that but I only get to talk to so many people so not sure how widespread it is. My wife said this once. It's apparently a thing people say. Cleaver line and it rhymes. ชาวเขาไม่ใช่ชาวเรา

I've in Chiang Mai for many years. I talk too much even but I don't ask people which groups they dislike, I only know that from overhearing them. I know people don't like Chinese, Indians, Hill tribes and Burmese, which is all the major groups here.