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Not really an excuse for violence, but the kid sounds like a bit of a brat, probably down to the mother.

Why keep the kids in school when they could be out earning money to help their parents? There is only now.

Then you don't know what a generalisation is. 🤷‍♂️ Not trying to backpedal at all. Simply correcting your error. A Thai would have to be mildly sociopathic to do what he claims his wife did. No rational person with any meaningful experience in Thailand or knowledge of Thai culture would fail to realise that to do such a thing would be a clear f-you to the professor, so it isn't believable. It isn't even a case of someone not being one to "take sh*t". It's clearly a confrontational and disrespectful thing to do in Thai culture.

Extremely humorous... 🙄

Probably somewhere between them wanting to take photos, and you wanting to ruin those photos, lies the understanding that you're not quite grasping... 🤔

Presumably, they're talking about rules withing schools.

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Isn't he under investigation for money laundering himself?

Died falling down a one metre deep hole?

It's fine to want this, of course, but they have to face up to the fact that they caused this by marketing their countries to attract this for the past 40 years. Don't be surprised if it is difficult to deter the "bad tourists" and equally difficult to attract the "good tourists". You first need to change whatever attracts the "bad tourists" and bring in something to attract the "good tourists".

No sh*t. That's what that literally means. A generalisation never means 100% of the people. 🙄 Still, it's far more likely that she didn't tell her professor than did. It's just not something that a normal Thai person would do.

Because I know what Thai people are like, both in terms of what they wouldn't do (showing their professor all their mistakes which their foreign boyfriend found) and in terms of what they would do (lying to their partner to keep the peace). If she lied to him, how would he know any different?

Doesn't sound like it. The chances of a Thai student turning up to class and telling their professor that their foreign husband had corrected their work and pointed out their the professor's errors, is very slim. However, the chances of a Thai student telling their husband that they would do so, then not doing it and lying about it, are pretty high. You would know that if you really knew Thai people. Just because you made an idiotic comment (again), and I pointed out that you were wrong (again), it doesn't make my comment idiotic. 🤷‍♂️

Why did you start one, then? Don't be mad just because you said something wrong and another person pointed it out. 🤷‍♂️

I think I know Thai people better than you do.

Quite a bit after it left London, then? 🤔

Again, that's all pretty irrelevant, as there are people who use/carry guns for self-defence. You saying that you (or some other people) do not, does not change that.

This is likely to clash with Thai culture pretty significantly.

There's no way your Thai wife would have done that to her professor. She probably threw it in the bin herself and lied to you.

The way the West is heading, there seems to be something to be said for an education system that focusses strongly on unity, cultural identity, and citizenship.

Win what? My point was that guns are useful for self-defense. Your having never needed one doesn't affect that at all.

You can get vaporisers also (not vapes).

Whilst countless others have, making your point irrelevant.

I often wonder about this myself. When it comes to other things that people want banned, cigarettes and guns seem a lot more urgent. It's weird, because alcohol causes more harm than guns, yet serves no actual purpose, while guns are useful for self-defence. Equally, cigarettes are often the target of negative press, while alcohol, which also has a lot of negative health effects, pretty much gets ignored. I think the problem is that alcohol is simply too popular for the cons to outweigh the pros. That is, the harm caused by alcohol doesn't bother people as much as not being able to drink it would.

Some Thais don't like to acknowledge the Khmer influence (origins?) on their culture.