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20 hours ago, swissie said:

General consensus: "If it gets any worse, I go back to the family-farm".

And what would be the reply of Thai's who are from Bangkok, with children and an mortgage?  Is there room for them on a farm in issan?   ????

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8 hours ago, Leaver said:

Not all Thai's are from the farm.  

 

How does a Thai from Bangkok, and living in a condo in Bangkok, with a mortgage, "live off the land?"

 

If they worked in hospitality or tourism etc, they are stressed out, the same as westerners are.     

Anyone can work the land if given instructions. It's not rocket science.

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On 10/8/2020 at 11:46 PM, swissie said:

I wonder how Europeans would react, as the family-farm was sold a 100 years ago and "Family-Bondage" has been declared as "a relict of the past".

Now they go into servitude to Harrod's department store..

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7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Most of them would still have links to the land, if not owning some.

Really?  So all the millions of Thai's living in Bangkok, are all from farm land, or still have links to farm land.  I don't think so.   

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22 minutes ago, 473geo said:

Fully understand that the Thai family bonds are strong and that does extend beyond immediate family.

There's a recently released book written by someone named 'Joseph Henrich' with the very long title of 'The Weirdest People in the World, How the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous' that looks into this.

 

I haven't read it yet but it looks like we're the weird ones (westerners), the extended family thing has been the norm for millennia.

 

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16 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

Probably not all, but at least 80% of the Thai's living in Bangkok still have a strong link

(Family, land, farm, house...) with their rural area, they can back here when the things go south like at the moment

 

A lot of them plan to retire in their rural area too, in each village you can see closed house built by people actually working in Bankgok and waiting back at the village for their old days

When my wife tells me she is cleaning rice usually means she is doing more than our usual supply. I expect there is a visit due from her family in the metropolis, those that travel by coach will frequently see a young Thai lady lugging half a sack of rice on return from the farm.

Much land in Thailand is to be handed down, not sold, hence we have the confusion of chanote and non chanote land. My wife effectively farms the 'hand down' land for all the family that are in the city, they in turn receive rice to take back throughout the year as required

I see there are city based youngsters now chasing any land that comes up for sale mainly small plots in their village of origin, clearly the young Thai are capable of thinking ahead. This in turn is pushing land prices up where 'building' land is in short supply. Kind of like the lovely NZ quarter acre home plot been 'split' to make money and absorb need for more building land.

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9 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Most of them would still have links to the land, if not owning some. Yes most would be able to go back to the village and good for them to be able to do so.

Westerners are so divorced from teh land that some don't even know that milk comes from cows and probably have never seen a live cow, sheep or pig.

Soooo, which race is better off- Thais that can go back to the village and survive very nicely, or westerners that will starve?

 

Well said OP.

Yep,

Back in the UK if the lorries stopped stocking Tesco/ASDA/Waitrose most of the population would be dead in 2 weeks.

If the electricity/gas/petrol stopped flowing most of the population would die in the first winter.

 

In Thailand most people would survive and the only major loss would be their internet connection.

If you're a serious prepper, waiting for TSHTF or TEOTWAWKI, Thailand is the place to be.

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1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

Yep,

Back in the UK if the lorries stopped stocking Tesco most of the population would be dead in 2 weeks.

If the electricity/gas/petrol stopped flowing most of the population would die in the first winter.

 

In Thailand most people would survive and the only major loss would be their internet connection.

If you're a serious prepper, waiting for TSHTF or TEOTWAWKI, Thailand is the place to be.

OK understand TSHTF but what is this mysterious 'japanese' dish you speak of? Will the world end before I learn to cook it?

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38 minutes ago, 473geo said:

Much land in Thailand is to be handed down, not sold, hence we have the confusion of chanote and non chanote land

And its also divided up amongst the Children , which gets smaller and smaller land plots with every generation .

  You have situations know where a plot of land big enough for one house will be getting divided between four kids

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3 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

And its also divided up amongst the Children , which gets smaller and smaller land plots with every generation .

  You have situations know where a plot of land big enough for one house will be getting divided between four kids

Agreed can't go on forever as it is, don't know about your experience, but I see families are smaller now maybe 1 or 2 children so effectively this will keep the metropolis labour market in need, and release the pressure on the decreasing available land situation, while still presenting a fall back situation.

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3 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

Probably not all, but at least 80% of the Thai's living in Bangkok still have a strong link

Bangkok has approximately 10.5 million people.

 

Are you suggesting round 8 million of them are from rural areas of Thailand?  

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15 minutes ago, baansgr said:

More so as there is no safety net of social funding..As for the OP, many youngsters in the UK have returned to live with parents, not only because of covid but the increasing cost of private housing....so the family unit is still strong even in the 21st Century

The extended family model was becoming more popular in western countries prior to Covid.  Main reason, as you say, higher cost of living, including housing.  

 

The extended family model has been the norm in many European and Asian countries for centuries.  

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21 minutes ago, KhaoNiaw said:

Probably not far off. Population was only 2-3 million in the 1970s. Most of the growth will be people who've come to the capital from rural areas. Yes, a lot will be permanently resident in Bangkok but often they keep the family ties going, visit once a year or once every few years, take the grandchildren to spend the school holidays 'at home', as well as staying in touch with other people from the village who are in Bangkok. 

I simply don't believe those stats.  Do you have a link?  Any evidence of these numbers?  

 

There are millions of Thai's that were born in Bangkok, raised in Bangkok, and live in Bangkok, with no link to a rural area, except maybe for generations in the past.  How far do we go back?

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