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And you cannot grasp how even the word "foreigner" could have negative connotations or be used in an offensive way?

"If you don't like racism, leave the country!" - bravo... ????

One of the stumbling blocks that comes with the main decider in whether someone is a good match being what their income is.

I doubt that you are Thai if you don't have Thai parents.

What a nightmare this poor guy must be going through. And it's taken two years for her to come clean. I guess the word of the drunk wife was enough to get a conviction because he is foreign? Or did the girl play along? So easy for a foreigner to fall foul of the law in these places, even when he has done nothing wrong. Just awful.

Oh dear... ????

Your biological mother and father are both ethnically Asian Thai natives?

Did anyone read the full article? The author has experienced racism and being categorised and treated as a homogenous "Asian person" in the West and is enjoying a little bit of revenge racism. Is the word offensive? Is it offensive to tell your friend you saw someone doing something weird and describe them as "an Asian guy"? No. Would it be offensive to approach someone in the West and shout "hey, Asian guy!" at them? Yes. Would it be offensive to refer to an Asian person in your friend group who you know well and know their name as "the Asian guy"? Yes. Farang also carries with it the negative qualities and hatred that some Thai people associate with foreigners. Obviously not all Thais think this way about foreigners, but not all foreigners are evil sex criminals who deserve to be treated as less than human. Not all Thais have the mindset of "I hate foreign people but I want their money, spend your money and go home", but some do and this is part of what the word farang represents. If the N word carries with it the weight of racism, slavery, segregation, KKK, etc., then farang carries with it everything bad that Thai people attach to the name. It's a term that might not be inherently racist or offensive, but, like with the term foreigner, it can be (and most often is) used in an offensive and derogatory way.

I think that one of the reasons that metoo has been so successful in the West is that those societies are very "gynocentric", where women have a lot of power and privilege simply for the fact that they are women. This means that an erosion of masculinity allows women to still be "themselves" and maintain their influence and lifestyle, a kind of double-dip. In Thailand, however, things between men and women are a lot more quid pro quo. If men were stopped from behaving how they wish, it would have an immediate knock-on effect on women's position in society. Women cannot use their sexuality or femininity to get what they want and then scream "metoo!". Thai men are a long way from being doting, grovelling, "happy wife - happy life", "let me check with the boss" types, and even modern and progressive Western men are beginning to question the narrative of "remove all the old fashion ways that women have to behave to keep men happy, but keep all the things that men have to do to keep women happy". If we consider that the way men generally behave is selected by women, as women decide what kind of man is desirable and this then has an affect on how men typically behave, then Thai women choose men who act in this way and therefore benefit from it. If you remove the benefits of being a powerful, wealthy and connected man, you remove the motivation to do the hard work involved in reaching that status. If women choose money and power as the decider of who is a desirable man, if they approach relationships in terms of what the man can provide and not how the man treats them, turning a blind eye to infidelity and choosing to socialise more with other women than their spouses, they are the ones who have chosen this type of man to be the ideal version. It becomes a "be careful what you wish for, you might just get it" situation. (Obviously the metoo movement is aimed at solely sexual harassment, but in the West it quickly morphed into bad dates and unwanted romantic propositions as being viewed as sexual harassment. It's sort of "the thin end of the wedge" in terms of feminising men and making then feel scared of approaching women in any way, lest they lose their job, their social position, or end up in court.)

It's interesting if you begin life as a naïve dreamer who thinks that hard work and talent is enough to succeed. "Just work hard and be nice." As you age, you start to realise that those things aren't as important as networking, supreme confidence, connections and the class that you are born into.

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They don't use the plastic heat seal things. A plastic resealable lid is dispensed.

1, why? He sounds like a scumbag. 2, much like with many other people that give life advice (Rogan included), there's a high chance that they can do what they do because of the way they grew up and any advice is worthless.

School Counsellors is probably a better term. Science Teachers - teach science. Maths teachers - teach maths. Counselling teachers - teach counselling?

Yes. I believe that the attitude towards women in Thai society is the cause for both the prevalence of sexual harassment and physical violence against them. I'm not sure how you can separate men thinking it's OK to sexually abuse women from men thinking it's OK to physically abuse women. Both are symptoms of the way that Thai society views women and how men can treat them. But there is sexual abuse against women all over the world as well. If one is ruled out because it happens everywhere, then so is the other. Also note that in both cases the male alleged perpetrator has been charged. So why only protest for one of the cases? At no point did I say that anything is unique to Thailand, but the level of violence against women, the acceptance of it, the public reaction to it, et., is going to differ from country to country. Thailand clearly has a problem of both sexual and physical violence against women and if "feminists" want to address either, they should be addressing everything about being a woman in Thailand.

There's actually a lot on this now online. Many men are a lot more wary about marriage than they used to be, in UK/US at least. I think a lot of people get something out of it. Even if it's as simple as if you treat other people well, they do the same for you, or if you make a contribution towards the community and see it flourish as a result, you may get a sense of pride or accomplishment. Perhaps your life experiences mean that you don't get that feeling from helping your community. That's fine, of course, you cannot help that. What about helping rabbits? What does that get you? Maybe some people feel about other people the way that you feel about rabbits. (I think that's you.) Of course, everyone is free to live as they choose, and not everyone gets the same feelings/rewards from certain activities. What about the golden rule: "do unto others as you would have done to you..." Does that mean anything to you? You want to be left alone and want others to leave you alone?

I was commenting on the video and the ability to learn from it and others like it, not the thumbnail or title. Most videos on YouTube are presented in such a way. You get used to it. The trick is to be open minded enough to not fall for <deleted> while not being put off by the clickbaity nature of the platform. You can click a video and then press the back button if it's of no value. And I don't believe that you are beyond learning things now.

It's perfectly relevant. If one person suggests that feminists should be talking about all the issues that women in a society face, rather than just the ones that affect them, and someone else says essentially "they don't need to talk about that as it is being dealt with", it implies that the way it is being dealt with is sufficient to address the problem. I do not believe that that is the case here. Now that's irrelevant.

You think that is going to change the way women are treated in Thai society?

There is no aspect of your life that could benefit from more motivation or discipline? Diet is perfect? Perfect physical fitness for your age? Intellectually maxed out? Pillar of the community? Maybe you should be making videos to help motivate others.

Unfortunately, the approach that Thais who are engaging with this type of thing take is to only focus on their own problems. It is/was the same with the "human rights" angle that some are/were taking with the anti-government protests. Talking about human rights, but only insofar as to get the outcome they want. Obviously human rights are "universal and unalienable", so Thai people being completely apathetic to the human rights abuses that many Thais are victims of really reduces the strength that appeals to human rights add. As long as people only ever talk about things that affect themselves and don't care about anyone else, nothing is going to change. I think "Thainess" dictates that people stay out of other people's business and only act when they are affected. All members of a group coming together and talking about all issues that that group faces and demanding change is how it is done.

Well, if you look at Rogan's life, he doesn't appear to have actually been a loser at any point. The fact of Rogan being or not being a loser, or feeling like a loser, is not the subject of the video, it's more about motivation and discipline. You don't need to be a loser, or feel like a loser, to learn something from another person who is talking about their attitude to hard work and how they felt it led to their success.

That's the thing, he's not a motivational speaker, he's just a very interesting person who knows how to get a good discussion going. Obviously this is a montage of things that have just popped out when he does his pod-cast. Guests will typically say some very interesting things as well, giving some decent insight into their lives. Most successful people can give some good advice, if they worked for what they have. Or they can at least tell an interesting story that makes you think. I suppose the motivation, in a case like this, comes from the fact that this is a person who has set a goal and then found a way to apply themselves to achieve it. It doesn't necessarily have to be a celebrity, it's just we here from people like this through the media and they have achieved something that many want to achieve.

Rogan just kind of chameleons into being a little bit like the guest of each show. It's a pretty good tactic as he gets some good results.

Having watched many of his podcasts, I can assure you this is incorrect.