Family-Owned Thai Restaurant in Texas Gets Racist ‘Speak English’ Note From Customer

[dcnx]

3 hours ago, tingtong said:

if only i could have a dollar for every time i heard the phrase from a thai "this is thailand" as a racist counter for anything and everything....

Thiiis Thailaaaan

[dcnx]

3 hours ago, moonseeker said:

You must have a very specific taste of music. Agree with ???????? but being woken up early morning by the screaming Isaan madams next door would not pass the first round of GB got talent.... 5555555... Just kidding.... MS>

Japanese is quite nice. Korean and Chinese are ok too, especially when soft spoken.

South East Asian languages make my ears bleed. Just terrible. 

[MaxYakov]

Languagism!  Seriously, what happened to "The customer is always right"? If the language proficiency of the table waiter were a serious issue w/r irritating the customers, for example, what should the management do? I don't believe the answer is not to "raise prices" in response when business is dropping off due to things like this.

[Jonathan Swift]

This kind of malignancy is now the rule rather than the exception under Trump's racist regime, and is one reason I left America. It's terribly sad and disturbing, this is not the America of my parents' generation, WWII veterans. If you reverse the circumstances I can't imagine Thais ever doing that to a farang who is otherwise respectful and well behaved. Many Thais still think America is the land of opportunity and want to go there, unfortunately I often have to burst their bubble by telling them the truth about attitudes toward immigrants and such. 

[KenKadz]

Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A.

Texican is not an easy language to learn.

Recon this person tells all the Mexican people in Lubbock the same thing?

[Isaanbiker]

3 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

US is now land of too much Spanish being spoken out in the open. Just sickening really. I hardly see a problem with them at their restaurant where the real problem is Mexicans and south of the border people taking over. Well also in California the Chinese are also taking over. US land of stupidity. 

Not long and Spanish will take over. 

Let guys like trump then Tweak in Spanish.

 

   " Uno grande cerveza per favore."

[Isaanbiker]

4 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

US is now land of too much Spanish being spoken out in the open. Just sickening really. I hardly see a problem with them at their restaurant where the real problem is Mexicans and south of the border people taking over. Well also in California the Chinese are also taking over. US land of stupidity. 

Double post, my apologies. 

[holy cow cm]

1 minute ago, Isaanbiker said:

Not long and Spanish will take over. 

Let guys like trump then Tweak in Spanish.

 

   " Uno grande cerveza per favore."

At least the alcohol is safe in the USA. 

[ravip]

9 hours ago, Prairieboy said:

People who dine out at various cultural eateries, to experience 'exotic' tastes, demand authenticity, whether it be Chinese, Mexican, Indian or whatever, yet, when faced with those who would provide that very authenticity they complain.  Obviously they spoke enough English to communicate with the customer so what's the problem! 

Absolute racists.

[Moo 2]

The problem with Americans they think that God is English.

[Penefattore]

On 11/23/2019 at 12:22 PM, zydeco said:

Could easily be a hoax. Free publicity already achieved. Not to mention sympathy patronage soon coming up.

can't be a hoax , no Thai can possibly write such a long sentence without any spelling mistake.

[woogoo]

On 11/23/2019 at 1:07 PM, EricTh said:

I know quite a lot of long term stay foreigners in Thailand who couldn't speak Thai properly beyond the numbers but they were not told to go back to their home country.

 

BTW, the native language in America is Red Indian speech and not English so who should go back?

The native language of America is English. The “red Indian speech”, as you put it, would be the native language of the Iroquois League or Cherokee Nation or any of the other non affiliated tribes. You might as well be arguing that Italians should be speaking Latin as that’s the “native language”.

On 11/23/2019 at 2:12 PM, sqwakvfr said:

I lived in Texas.  In Lubbock this may not be a hoax.  West Texas between El Paso and San Antonio is like another place and time.  It has been like this long before a guy named

Trump left the golf course.  Really surprised Lubbock has a Thai restaurant.

You may be surprised that it has 4 thai restaurants and dozens of Mexican restaurants and a few Indian restaurants and even Japanese and Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants. And you may be even more surprised that it has a top rated university known for some major scientific breakthroughs.

 

Being from Lubbock I can say there are quite a few idiots as there are anywhere else. But, this particular restaurant happens to be near a high school so I imagine it’s more likely a prank by a student. Though I could be wrong. All of the people working at the restaurants speak English with the exception of the grandmother at one of them. It’s possible someone heard them talking to each other but the thai restaurants there don’t usually attract the type of crowd with that sentiment. One of them is in the medical district so mostly doctors and students from the university.

 

But here is another point, the families there who opened restaurants made tons of money. All of that money, with the exception of the money paid in taxes, the kept. They didn’t need to hire a certain number of Americans. They didn’t need a 51% joint ownership with an American. They didn’t need to do 90 day check ins. They all easily obtained their green cards. None of them had to do TM-30s. And, as long as they pay their taxes, it will stay that way. I hear many fellow Americans talk about “institutional racism”, but I never understood what that meant until I came to Thailand.

[sirineou]

On 11/23/2019 at 12:17 AM, rooster59 said:

Family-Owned Thai Restaurant in Texas Gets Racist ‘Speak English’ Note From Customer

I guess the got the special sauce in their Pad krapow  

[MiNombreEsFicticious]

On 11/23/2019 at 12:33 PM, BritManToo said:

How was the note racist?

Notes can't be racist. It was written by a racist who was stereotyping someone or group of people based on their perceived physical differences involving race. How does the note writer know whether the Thai speakers were born outside the US or are not American citizens? Someone can  in the US and speak a foreign language at work. If they're white one might assume they were born in the US. But if they're Asian looking, then they must have been born in Asia? That's not necessarily true, but it's racist to assume so. I went to university in Texas, thank god i was white (still am) coz i saw racism every waking moment for 4 years. 

[4675636b596f75]

5 minutes ago, MiNombreEsFicticious said:

It was written by a racist

No.  

 

Racist is the wrong word.

 

Use bigot.  

[DannyCarlton]

3 minutes ago, 4675636b596f75 said:

No.  

 

Racist is the wrong word.

 

Use bigot.  

Thanks but I'll use the word racist. I can't imagine why you don't like it.

[4675636b596f75]

2 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

Thanks but I'll use the word racist. I can't imagine why you don't like it.

It's improper.  

[baboon]

On 11/23/2019 at 9:41 AM, Geoherb said:

Have you ever been to Newcastle in the North of England?

How, man. Wuz taalk proper in the Toon...

[yogi100]

7 hours ago, car720 said:

Their difference in spelling is the first thing that comes to mind.  

"He talks really good".   Does that suit as an example?

"He talks really good" is a sentence in the English language and with English spelling!

[bannork]

3 hours ago, Penefattore said:

can't be a hoax , no Thai can possibly write such a long sentence without any spelling mistake.

I think there's a spelling mistake above. If you use any with countable nouns such as mistake the noun should be plural- mistakes.

 

[garyk]

I am in Texas, If I ever go threw their town I will stop and leave a very nice note... 

[Isaanbiker]

7 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

This kind of malignancy is now the rule rather than the exception under Trump's racist regime, and is one reason I left America. It's terribly sad and disturbing, this is not the America of my parents' generation, WWII veterans. If you reverse the circumstances I can't imagine Thais ever doing that to a farang who is otherwise respectful and well behaved. Many Thais still think America is the land of opportunity and want to go there, unfortunately I often have to burst their bubble by telling them the truth about attitudes toward immigrants and such. 

Thanks for your post. I totally agree with you and Thais would not go that far, they just tolerate people who live here 15 + years, but can't have a simple conversation. 

 

I've just read a post of somebody who was so upset about all the Mexicans speaking Spanish.

 

 They do take jobs what an American wouldn't do. Does that make them to bad guys then?

 

   If Mexico would be the wealthy land, how many Americans would be in Mexico?

 

 You can't choose where you were born and blaming these Thai people for not being able to speak proper English is just written on a napkin.

 

  Maybe they do speak English, but one employee misunderstood a guy's oder?

 

   It's racist when somebody tells you to go back where you came from, there's no doubt about it.   

[Isaanbiker]

2 hours ago, DannyCarlton said:

Thanks but I'll use the word racist. I can't imagine why you don't like it.

+ 1. How many languages does the rude napkin guy speak? 

 

  

[Nice Boyd]

On 11/23/2019 at 12:40 PM, Happy Grumpy said:

They wrote the correct 'you're', as opposed to the incorrect 'your', so yes, I doubt an American wrote it. 

This comment is moronic as the story another labeler and Yank Basher, this person probably wrote it

[Nice Boyd]

3 hours ago, garyk said:

I am in Texas, If I ever go threw their town I will stop and leave a very nice note... 

Thru

[Nice Boyd]

Americans get bashed on thaivisa  site constantly, and nothing is done about it, Americans are tired of it, these lil Yank Bashing Cliques are never criticized or Banned or Suspended, I’m particularly exhausted with the tolerance given to the bashers , I don’t see any difference between that note and the behavior of a certain clique on here....

[garyk]

2 hours ago, Nice Boyd said:

Thru

Ain't no-one goings to stop me from heading threw there..  ????

[Flemo]

Gutless. Leave an anonymous note and sneak out.

[Prairieboy]

22 hours ago, tingtong said:

if only i could have a dollar for every time i heard the phrase from a thai "this is thailand" as a racist counter for anything and everything....

Yes, me too!  Then I could afford to retire in a place where I am actually made to feel welcome.

[Prairieboy]

3 hours ago, garyk said:

Ain't no-one goings to stop me from heading threw there..  ????

Maybe through??