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I wonder if she was glued to it as she made her way across. Looking both ways should be the bare minimum here, but they just don't like to teach kids to be safe.

The problem is, if those tourists are Russians, they may well not be genuine tourists and they may be patronising Russian businesses. So they won't generate the subsidy fund that previous tourists did.

Thailand is a heavily subsidised society, so they have come to expect it. Unfortunately, there isn't currently the same level of tourist spending to provide for the subsidies.

How do you feel that the person you are responding to came across as thinking they're special and unique? They don't seem to have said anything about themselves.

Sounds like Trump attended in good faith, was ambushed with accusations, defended himself and pointed out the mistreatment, and now the MSM is doing their job of trying to spin it like he's the bad guy... 🙄 A typical biased hit-piece.

Pretty nasty to other users also. I suspect several of them are the same person, and they are also behind previously active but now quiet accounts. I can't imagine they have the capability to truly be happy anywhere, since their attitude is very negative and they seem to need to constantly lash out against everyone else.

I take it you wear a mask whenever you go outside in Thailand?

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This is why Thais are so "kind and easy going", and generally don't get involved with anything that doesn't directly affect them.

Quite. Typically the cycle is something like: non-left-wing person says or does something, left-wing propagandist distorts or completely concocts what they want to have happened, left-wing press and commentators take that as proven fact and repeat it.

Literally all the left has is lies and smear campaigns. Kind of pathetic, really.

Because the good outweighs the bad and they're just venting and not "Thai bashing" and you need to stop being so negative?

A nice idea, and true in many cases (charitable donations, for example), but most people at least expect an acknowledgement and a thank you for doing somehting to help another. It's just the polite thing to do. If you go out of your way to help a friend or family member, and their reaction is one that suggests contempt and entitlement, most people would find that unpleasant and might not want to help that person again in the future.

There used to be a guy called "the good farang" on YouTube. He was in a relationship with a Thai woman who seeker to hate him and would become abusive when drunk, but he seemed complelty oblivious. He seems to have disappeared now, though.

How did this manifest itself? I thought foreign teachers were primarily there to provide exposure to the language. Were they bad at English?

You've just described communism, unfortunately... (No gulags though, yet.)

It's tricky, because in both Thailand and China, rules, laws and warnings aren't really considered binding. They need some sort of caveat like "No, we mean it this time, this isn't one of those signs that we put up then everyone ignores and we never enforce, you will die."

It seems very complementary. If anyone was expecting that the story would go that the Americans would travel to Thailand, realise that it was lightyears ahead of them in terms of technology, infrastructure, business, and culture, then spend the rest of the advert performing some kind of worship, then they're a bit crazy.

They mentioned resuscitation, so presumably they were performing CPR for 30 minutes until they could get him proper medical care. Possibly the CPR didn't work properly for whatever reason and he ended up brain damaged. Not sure why they think he's going to recover. Perhaps he can breath unassisted even though there's nothing going on in conscious part of the brain?

Is it?

Depends who you ask. Maybe good for average Thais but bad for those in charge.

I actually think that if Thailand was still like it is portrayed in the ad (fun, chilled out, relaxed, and welcoming to foreingers), tourism would not have gone down as much as it has. I'm not sure if the ad is enough to fool people anymore. The 90s was a long time ago.

It's very difficult to learn. This is really an opinion piece. If Thai was replaced by English, it wouldn't have any tangible detrimental effect, as long as everybody learnt it (it would probably improve communication). People wouldn't like it, though, as they would likely feel like their national identity was being taken from them. They would also probably feel that it meant foreing people and foreign ideas would be too refill embraced.

Hardly anybody studies anyway. Even with the best internet, they just log on and play a game or sleep.

Foreign language leads to foreign ideas... 😉