BangkokReady

Do what Europe is doing. Import Africans and Arabs to make up the difference.

More work but less time and money? That doesn't sound right.

I think one of the problems is that Thais are always far more concerned with how things look than how they are. So they want to appear to be a place that attracts "high quality tourists" and not backpackers/budget travellers, even when it is really the opposite that is true. They then end up kind of shooting themselves in the foot, rather than simply continuing to do what they do well.

I think the problem is twofold. 1, Thailand doesn't really have enough to attract the "high quality tourists" in great numbers. 2, they seem to have been trying to drive away backpackers for years. That's their choice, of course, but it seems to be one that is somewhat counterproductive.

It seems like Thailand is about to find out that if you act like your customers have no other choice, when they actually do, you're going to lose those customers.

How so?

You first! 🙄

A pollution stopping one.

Sure, but imagine what he could have achieved if he never got involved in gang violence and spent ten years actually making something of himself.

And some people pretend to be outraged simply because they don't like someone.

What a waste of a life.

Unfortunately, brown people are "the good guys" and the virtue signalling wokesters desperately need them to be painted in a positive light and as being oppressed by the White people. This means that they don't want anyone to be able to say "look at what a number of groups of brown people have done a number of times in similar circumstances". So they have to shut it down and call everyone racist.

Your behaviour in no way supports this claim.

It's an interesting phenomenon. The two in this thread both claim to be happy and successful, yet they have this incredible hatred and anger for other foreigners bubbling beneath the surface. It seems that they cannot resist an opportunity to put other foreigners down, and feel the need to make out that any friction between Thais and foreigners is the fault of the foreigner. It's like their rational/critical thinking is completely disengaged. There was a thread a few days ago, about two foreigners having sex in public, and one of them wrote this strange comment where they got really angry, basically claimed that all the users on this forum are the same as this couple, and demanded that they should all go home.

Cocoa

"OK brain, what do I need to change about this story to make it seem like the foreigner is in the wrong? I know! Make it sound like a vulnerable elderly person with dementia who has been mistreated by his wife is actually an idiot and is completely to blame for what has been done to him. Perfect!"

What does that mean exactly? This user hates other foreigners and likes to put them down. It seems that here he is pretending that a vulnerable old person with dementia is to blame and "stupid" for "letting" this happen. Kind of sad.

Absolutely disgusting. This is the exact reason that people ignored the rape gangs in the first place. Scared of being labelled racist and not caring about working class people. Heads should be rolling over this whole thing. It should be a "never again" type of thing. But apparently not making brown people look bad takes precedence and people actively don't want to fix the thing that caused this to happen in the first place. The perpetrators, and people like them, must be laughing at the British people.

Just like we used to think that the WHO actually cared about people's health, when really they just care about money. Trumps idea of defunding these organisations doesn't seem that bad. They seem to mostly be about optics.

So ruin it for everyone in order to make one person feel better? What a wonderful progressive world these people want.

I disagree with your opinion. What I have said is much more likely.

I think you mean @Cameroni

No, it's not in their "culture and heritage". I just dated a Chinese girl and she was very well mannerd. He's just looking for an excuse to make it OK for an Asian to act this way but really bad when a Westerner does the same.

That was five years ago. They seem a lot happier now and have left a lot of this political unrest behind them. What changed? People stopped telling them they were politically oppressed and they stopped worrying about it. 🤷‍♂️

It's probably hard for them as their national pride has taken a bit of a beating in the last few years. Then on top of that they have the credit crunch thing.