Local Culture: What don't you like?

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, Led Lolly Yellow Lolly said:

Ugggh, Thai people and escalators, wasn't this topic done to death in 2004?

The way people try to push in to the Skytrain before the ones wanting to get out are able to do so.

[zzaa09]

They're nothing more than savages.

A good old fashion civilising mission might be in order.

[Gsxrnz]

10 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Neighbour throwing leftover food over his wall onto the street outside out house.

 

Neighbours leaving their dogs and cats to breed over and over again and not 'fixing' them so the area is swarming with sickly dogs and cats.

 

A neighbour suddenly deciding to keep 2 cows in his front garden and never clean then out so each evening there is horrific stench.

 

People burning plastic every day 

 

The trend that ever house need to get blinding white outside lights. 

 

The culture of using a grass strimmer, steal cutter saw, tractors to move about red soil at 6.30 in the morning.

 

And the culture of missing the collection day ever week and making a mountain of festering, stinking bin bags at top of the street outside our wall. 

 

I think the thread is about Thailand, not Portland.

[2009]

For me, the lack of responsibility, yet entitlement is hard to swallow.

 

Or maybe that's not just Thais, but women in general.

Edited December 3, 2021 by 2009

[Fat is a type of crazy]

The lack of thinking things through. Thais will buy caged birds at the temple so they can be freed without thinking about how they got caged in the first place.

Buddhism is a good thing in Thailand, and as an outsider I shouldn't draw too many conclusions, but there does often seem a childish link between some who do the temple thing just to add to their luck  e.g. for buying lottery tickets. I suppose all religions have a bit of that. 

[NoshowJones]

On 12/1/2021 at 7:38 PM, 2009 said:

Yup, the absolute ruthless cut-throat driving which just seems to be the norm among the nation as a whole.

 

Yeah, a lack of honestly and reliability in general. I suppose all cultures have different values, but honestly certainly isn't high on the list here.

 

 

Honesty is actually very good among the majority of ordinary Thais I find, but I think queue jumping can be quite bad, in the 15 years I have lived in Thailand, I have stopped every queue jumper that ever did it in front of me.

[NoshowJones]

On 12/1/2021 at 8:11 PM, 2009 said:

You reminded me of living up country. Lol

 

Domestication ain't exactly very refined yet, nor care for animals, neighbors, or the environment.

 

The Thais stupidity and sad lack of intelligence sticks out like a sore thumb. Riding motorbikes in an indoor market also springs to mind.

[richard_smith237]

On 12/1/2021 at 9:24 PM, richard_smith237 said:

This thread could turn into a colossal Thai bash...

And here we go.... 

 

On 12/2/2021 at 6:05 AM, zzaa09 said:

They're nothing more than savages.

 

9 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

The Thais stupidity and sad lack of intelligence sticks out like a sore thumb.

 

[4MyEgo]

On 12/1/2021 at 11:36 PM, 2009 said:

Yeah, the psychotic Thai techno party music sounds like something only rebellious children would play for a laugh.

 

Yet, no Issan party is complete without 12 hours of it played so loud you can here it kilometres away and the women actually seem to enjoy dancing to it.

 

I will never comprehend.

I don't mind the music, I loath the bass at night when everyone is asleep and no one is partying anymore, but the bass is still going, so irritating because you can feel it vibrating, fortunately we are away from people so can't really complain, but that bass once in a blue moon OMG.

 

The Thai music festivals I love, especially with those cute thrust busters on cue, orgasmic ????

 

[richard_smith237]

A letter from former British Ambassador to Thailand; Sir Anthony Rumbold, written in 1967. 

 

This created quite a stir when the papers were declassified a few years ago...

 

Worth a read, there are some gems in there which are difficult to contradict although there is quite the stench of elitist pomposity. 

 

 

Sir-Anthony-Rumbold.pdf

[tgw]

4 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

A letter from former British Ambassador to Thailand; Sir Anthony Rumbold, written in 1967. 

 

This created quite a stir when the papers were declassified a few years ago...

 

Worth a read, there are some gems in there which are difficult to contradict although there is quite the stench of elitist pomposity. 

 

 

Sir-Anthony-Rumbold.pdf 2.49 MB · 1 download

the executive summary is spot-on though !

[4MyEgo]

37 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

Honesty is actually very good among the majority of ordinary Thais I find, but I think queue jumping can be quite bad, in the 15 years I have lived in Thailand, I have stopped every queue jumper that ever did it in front of me.

I used to get annoyed at that too, now as I have time on my hands for example, if I'm at Lotus and see someone with a couple of items, just like I used to do back home, I would let them in if there was no one behind me, but Thai's generally don't get it when you wave them in, some do, and appreciate it, others just walk off to another line.

 

Why just the other day as I was getting a trolley, I saw an elderly lady behind me with the corner of my eye and I pulled out two trolleys, and passed one to her, she looked at me as if to say, I don't understand, why you help me. I didn't wait for acknowledgement or a thank you, I did it because that is how I learned to do things, and I did see her later in the store and as she was looking at me, I smiled and tilted my head slightly and she smiled and kept staring at me, for a minute there I thought it was game on ????

 

[zzaa09]

Why can't they just adopt to be like us?