BangkokReady

It seems that the conclusion here is "fathers smoking causes their kids to vape". I'd like to see the research that say that there's actually a link between fathers smoking and their children vaping.

Do Thai people normally get a glass of wine with their meal??? 🤦‍♂️

The Thai equivalent is very common. Most outdoor restaurants will sell the Thai equivalent dish of fried rice with meat for 40-60 Baht. You must have seen this.

I think you have to remember that you're in a country where the food you're eating is quite cheap. No offense, but it doesn't really look high quality for Europe. This means you need to compare it with the same kind of food in Thailand (not the exact same dish). By the looks of the photos, where you're eating looks comparable with a Thai outdoor restaurant selling most everyday dishes for around 40-60 baht. So, what you're eating in these photos, could be up to ten times cheaper in Thailand.

It also remains unclear as to whether the foreigner was to blame for the collision. 🙄

I think you must be projecting something unpleasant that lives inside your mind. I didn't say any of that, nor anything that could be interpreted as that.

Well, it would be separate, additional income and they would be targeting students that wouldn't be going to their Western campuses, so how much they earn in their home countries doesn't really matter. It wouldn't be a zero sum game and it would not be affected.

Indeed. No debate on this one.

There was something on here about a group that were using social media being shut down recently. Perhaps it relates to them.

Indeed. More Asians travel to ASEAN to abuse kids than Westerners.

While I agree that Thailand does remain free of a lot of wokeness (although some LGBT stuff has crept in), I'm not sure that would be enough to make up for the negative influence that the reputation of the Thai education system would no doubt have. If you compare the fake teaching of Thailand, with the woke indoctrination of many American universities, it's actually hard to know which is more damaging. I suspect the degrees that have a big pull for foreign students have been spared much of the wokeness, though.

The reputation that a country has will affect how people feel about studying there. Imagine there are two Havard Campuses, and one is called "the Thailand Campus". Which claim has more cache: "I went to Harvard" or "I went to Harvard, the Thailand Campus"?

"Optics." There's rarely any substance behind it. I think it's just PR/propaganda to attempt to make the Thai people think that the government is causing Thailand to go places.

The rebuttal here is "But trans women are really women". 😬 This is why they want to make real women need to have a prefix also. Just to make transwomen feel better. The way they have zero regard for how women feel about this is pretty shocking.

Absolutely, but a 200 Baht helmet from Big C is definitely less likely to protect you adequately than a Western standard one that costs several thousand Baht.

It's not just about having a helmet. You need to have a high quality one. Especially if you're riding a big bike.

Perhaps they just don't have the appeal that a university that is still in the West has. As in, it isn't necessarily the quality of the teaching so much as what it means to go there.

It's called linguistic terrorism. They want people to think that transwomen are so common and normal that women need their own special prefix, to make transwomen feel like they are not abnormal. "Trans or cis, they're both women!" 🙄

Whichever one you are attracted to. Most men like women, fewer like ladyboys. No, as they come with their own family and mental problems. Possibly more that the women.

I think you got it the wrong way round. The looney-left has been going on about Trump being "a convicted felon", of course he can now point out the hypocrisy. Even you yourself choose to label Trump as "the convicted felon". 🤦‍♂️

You know nothing about people. The girl probably has no desire to change her situation. Screaming arguments are probably fairly default for them. I don't write BS. What I write is sensible and well thought out. You simply don't like it because it highlights your errors. I'm not saying you never could have helped, but at this point it's very unlikely that you can change anything. Unless you were family or some sort of state authority, who could remove her from the situation and force her to change, but still the damage is really already done. I commend the fact that you care and would like to help, that's admirable, but the fact that you attack people who point out the truth to you simply because you don't like it, is a lot less praiseworthy.

I think you're missing the point. This kind of thing is not uncommon in Thailand, and it's unlikely that the people even want to change, let lone have the willingness to put in the effort. You're likely approaching things from a very Western-centric viewpoint (as it the OP), where you think that the woman and girl are victims of "the system", when really, they are products of it. How can you save someone who is perfectly happy with how things are, and doesn't even view themselves as needing saving? You cannot "assimilate" someone into Western thinking where suddenly they will become uninterested in dating an adult, completely change their attitude to education, and realign their life-goals with Western ones. You would need some form of brainwashing.

It's actually an interesting idea. Why haven't top universities opened campuses in developing countries and target rich foreign students? I assume they've maybe considered it. Not financially viable? No one will want to work there? No one will want to study there? Will water down their reputation? Lose control of the quality of teaching? They aren't allowed? Safety?

Good stuff. I hear white rice is not particularly nutritious.