Chinese tourists warned not to embroider school names on student uniforms

[Liverpool Lou]

15 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

Visit a Chinese college campus and get back to us.

 

Your comment would have made more sense i you'd have included a photo of an actual Chinese student's uniform.

[Liverpool Lou]

9 hours ago, Joe Farang said:

How strange, Westerners on holiday buying Thai school girls.........

????

Speak for yourself.

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, Joe Farang said:

9 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Child prostitution isn't really a laughing matter 

My mindset had uni students in it. Obviously your mind works differently.

No, you specifically said school girls, no mention of university students.

[Zapitapi]

sounds petty to me

[ThailandRyan]

5 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

No, you specifically said school girls, no mention of university students.

So uni students, girls, are not school girls...since when Lou...

[LudwigK]

Here you can see the consequential damage from covid!!!!  

[spidermike007]

1. Where can these tourist be found? 

2. Don't the authorities have any real issues to focus on? 

3. Where is the harm? Really. Who is this hurting? Seems kind of fun to me. Who doesn't like an adult woman who is wearing a school uniform? 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, bangon04 said:

In the interests of research - if the chinese want to be specific - it is all about the belt buckle, not the embroidery, apparently.

You've confused schoolgirls uniforms with university students uniforms.

The belt buckles are for university uniforms.

I wear my Thai ladies university belt every day.

[spidermike007]

Thailand is becoming the world center of warnings. Don't do this. Don't do that. My guess is the Chinese are used to being warned. But, other tourists not so much. 

 

Stop the nonsense. 

[Confuscious]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Rachapon Sirisakorn, a lawyer, said on his Facebook page today (Wednesday) that, according to the Student Uniform Act B.E. 2551 (2008AD), if an individual, who is not a student, wears a student uniform to mislead other people into believing that he or she is a student may violate the law and may face a fine of up to 1,000 baht on conviction.

 

[Elkski]

15 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

You've confused schoolgirls uniforms with university students uniforms.

The belt buckles are for university uniforms.

I wear my Thai ladies university belt every day.

Around your neck with leash?

[bangon04]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

You've confused schoolgirls uniforms with university students uniforms.

The belt buckles are for university uniforms.

I wear my Thai ladies university belt every day.

I blame the Yanks: "In the United States, the words 'school', 'college', and 'university' are used interchangeably in speech when referring to higher education institutions."

https://www.mastersportal.com/articles/2711/whats-the-difference-between-college-and-university-in-the-us-and-uk.html#:~:text=In the United States%2C the,the most frequently used one.

[bangon04]

17 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Maybe to get on the Songtaew cheaper?

Just another on the long list of "cultural faux pas" to be avoided........

[kingstonkid]

17 hours ago, John Drake said:

What! Didn't see this one coming at all.

Actually Thai uniform is very popular in Japan but usually it is the short skirt version.  

Asian girls seem to love cos play.

[n00dle]

18 hours ago, transam said:

How strange, Chinese on holiday buying Thai school uniforms.............

actually, for anyone who is not entirely out of touch, it is not that surprising

[kidneyw]

2 hours ago, Will B Good said:

She told me she prefers her policewoman's outfit.

She told me you still prefer your schoolboy uniform.

[John Drake]

2 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

Actually Thai uniform is very popular in Japan but usually it is the short skirt version.  

Asian girls seem to love cos play.

Another thing I'm completely out of touch on. 

[n00dle]

6 hours ago, Srikcir said:

sanctimonious

cute.

 

Tricky old thing, languge, innit?

[geisha]

I’m sure I’ve seen those girls in the upstairs bar balcony on Soi Bangla Patong !

[fusion58]

16 hours ago, Dan O said:

All the worry about the possibility of tarnishing a schools image by wearing a school uniform with a name on it but no worries about school staff tarnishing the school image by physically and sexually abusing school students.  We are truly living in an upside down universe in Thailand.

Yep.

 

They get bent out of shape over the most superficial things while ignoring the rot inside.

[fusion58]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Rachapon Sirisakorn, a lawyer, said on his Facebook page today (Wednesday) that, according to the Student Uniform Act B.E. 2551 (2008AD), if an individual, who is not a student, wears a student uniform to mislead other people into believing that he or she is a student may violate the law and may face a fine of up to 1,000 baht on conviction.

Almost as dumb as the concept of mandatory school uniforms itself.

[thailand49]

I wear my sons old school uniforms while painting and do work around the house should I be concern?

Does that also mean after a long day working around the house I head to Windmill on W.S. girls on stage with school uniform or socks I better think twice?????

[Caldera]

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Rachapon Sirisakorn, a lawyer, said on his Facebook page today (Wednesday) that, according to the Student Uniform Act B.E. 2551 (2008AD), if an individual, who is not a student, wears a student uniform to mislead other people into believing that he or she is a student may violate the law and may face a fine of up to 1,000 baht on conviction.

That sounds like a ridiculous law. I get why impersonating let's say a police officer by wearing a police uniform is a crime, but impersonating a university student? Unless you use that uniform to sit an exam for someone else or swindle someone into giving you the student price for goods or services purchased, where's the actual harm in merely wearing such a uniform for fun or fashion?

[jacko45k]

4 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Your comment would have made more sense i you'd have included a photo of an actual Chinese student's uniform.

Must be a Chinese school near my mates condo...... seen her calling round!

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, fusion58 said:

Almost as dumb as the concept of mandatory school uniforms itself.

Jeeze put your red flag and megaphone away for a minute and enjoy the banter!

[BangkokReady]

20 hours ago, asf6 said:

It's all about the intention. 

 

"If an individual, who is not a student, wears a student uniform to mislead other people into believing that he or she is a student may violate the law and may face a fine of up to 1,000 baht on conviction."

 

No intention to mislead, officer. Honest, guv. 

Yeah, I would have thought that a lawyer would be a little sharper on the law and interpreting them.

 

The article also has the following:

 

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He said that, if the uniform is not embroidered with an actual school’s name, the tourist may be able to wear the uniform with impunity.

So if you have a school name on your uniform but you don't intent or try to mislead someone you're still guilty simply because the school name is there?  And without the school name you couldn't possibly be trying to pass yourself off as a student?

 

Something not right there.

[BangkokReady]

2 hours ago, fusion58 said:

Almost as dumb as the concept of mandatory school uniforms itself.

School uniforms are good and have many benefits.

[kingstonkid]

23 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

School uniforms are good and have many benefits.

I am sure there was a reason back in 2008 for this law

 

In this case, it was the Student Uniform Act, under which non-students can be fined for dressing up as students and then misbehaving in ways that might harm the reputation of a school. That was enough for the Office of the Basic Education Commission to issue a warning to tourists.

But the Ministry of Education said on Thursday that the visitors did not have any intention to make fun of any educational institutions.

The ministry’s regulations related to uniforms were aimed only at preventing wrongdoers from wearing uniforms to falsely blame a school or to cover up a crime, the ministry said.

[Jonathan Swift]

22 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

The schoolgirl outfits are very popular in China.  They love to play dress-up in Korean/Japanese cosplay outfits and spend hours taking photos for their WeChat pages and making cute dance videos for TikTok.

And that's all there is to it. Harmless cosplay. And not illegal if it's not done to impersonate students. People who are full of evil themselves love to read evil intent where there is none. 

[Jonathan Swift]

1 minute ago, Jonathan Swift said:

And that's all there is to it. Harmless cosplay. And not illegal if it's not done to impersonate students. People who are full of evil themselves love to read evil intent where there is none. Let these kids alone and let them have their fun.