British man recounts shocking encounter with racist Russians in Phuket

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A British man recounted an unsettling encounter with some racist Russians in Phuket, southern Thailand. His unfortunate experience has led him to declare that he will never return to the island.

 

The British man, who shared his story on the Reddit platform under the username Wanderlust3r0, started his narrative by stating he is a black British man with a Thai wife.

 

“I have been coming to Thailand for the last ten years and this is the first time I have experienced racism, not from my Thais but from Russians in Phuket.”

The British man explained that Phuket is his wife’s home province. He met his wife in 2016 and visited her from time to time until February 2020, when she moved to live with him in the UK. Over these years, he had never experienced racial discrimination in Phuket until a visit this year.

The British man said he and his wife arrived in Phuket in mid-September and stayed near Karon and Kata beaches. He felt discriminated against on several occasions when using the services of various restaurants and later discovered that the discrimination was not from locals but from Russians who now own many businesses in the province.

 

by Petch Petpailin

Photo by Alexander Kaufmann via Unsplash and Facebook/ Kata Printing.

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-10-03

 

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[bignok]

So go elsewhere no Russians

[shackleton]

Easy to say don't go there but his wife's  family live there 

Any way he has said he wont go back ????

More reason for the rest of us  not to go there 

I prefer other places in Thailand ????

 

[Dmaxdan]

19 minutes ago, PJ71 said:

and.....

You've obviously never been a victim of racial abuse which is abhorrent on every level.

Racists are nothing but vile scum.

 

[bignok]

2 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

You've obviously never been a victim of racial abuse which is abhorrent on every level.

Racists are nothing but vile scum.

 

Not much compared to murder

[FritsSikkink]

From the article:

" a small restaurant and bar on the beach where all the items on the menu were in Russian. He explained that he turned on his favourite music playlist on the restaurant’s stereo ........... a bar and restaurant manager turned off his playlist after a group of Russians arrived. The manager then gave all control over the songs to the Russians. The music was switched to Russian songs, prompting the man to ask the Russian group to switch back to his playlist."

 

Then it started. Should have gone to another restaurant instead of trying to force his ways on other people.

[2long]

So is it a shocking encounter as the title suggests, or an unsettling encounter as explained in the first paragraph?

Without substantiated claims or even any examples, the who story appears a bit clickbaity to me. Is The Thaiger short on proper stories?

And before the mods jump on me, I am having  a dig at the Thaiger not at AN.

[tubby johnson]

" .... some defended the Russian group, contending that it was unfair to impose his playlist on other restaurant patrons and that he should not have requested them to complete it."

 

He insisted on imposing his atrocious music on everyone present and now proceeds to make racist generalisations about Russian people.

[Liverpool Lou]

8 minutes ago, 2long said:

Without ... even any examples

He very clearly specified the reason he was upset by the treatment and the the words he received, 

[novacova]

10 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

You've obviously never been a victim of racial abuse which is abhorrent on every level.

Racists are nothing but vile scum.

 

Actual racism/prejudice/indifference that humans tend to have has been around since the beginning of human evolution. No one single type of indifference of prejudice is any worse than another. Using race to create a case of a variable injustice is racism in of itself, it the use of race to express one’s own prejudicial indifference…waiting and seeking an opportunistic event of something that may or may not have occurred.

[Liverpool Lou]

14 minutes ago, tubby johnson said:

He insisted on imposing his atrocious music on everyone present and now proceeds to make racist generalisations about Russian people.

Can't you read?

He specifically stated that he was not generalising and he did specify the words that were used that confirm the racist verbal attack of the group involved.

[bignok]

2 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

He specifically stated that he was not generalising and he did specify the words that were used that confirm the racism of the group involved.

So what do you want done?

[impulse]

It's a twofer.

 

You get to bash Russkies and racism.
 

[norfolkandchance]

I don't like Rap either.

[bignok]

Sticks n stones

[ChipButty]

I quite like the 1812 Overture, by Tchaikovsky 

[ChipButty]

Apart from the Russians, Phuket people are know by other Thai's as being Jai Dam, in my experience of living here a long time Thai's are racist's towards black people,  

[Nick Carter icp]

ASEANNOW are reporting on a Thaiger news report who were reporting about a Reddit post ?

  Could someone post it on Twitter because I want to read what Twitter users say about the incident 

[bignok]

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

ASEANNOW are reporting on a Thaiger news report who were reporting about a Reddit post ?

  Could someone post it on Twitter because I want to read what Twitter users say about the incident 

Silly world we live in

Murders daily

Road deaths daily

 

People chat about verbal abuse

 

Humans are a lost cause

[JonnyF]

47 minutes ago, tubby johnson said:

He insisted on imposing his atrocious music on everyone present and now proceeds to make racist generalisations about Russian people.

He was probably expecting everyone to bend over backwards for him and throw a party in the name of diversity and inclusion - for fear of being called a Racist, as he is used to in Britain. 

 

It's black history month after all. How dare they turn off his music for a larger group. Send in Dr Shola immediately. 

[watchcat]

46 minutes ago, norfolkandchance said:

I don't like Rap either.

Nobody does.

[FritsSikkink]

59 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

He very clearly specified the reason he was upset by the treatment and the the words he received, 

They shouldn't called him the N-word.

He shouldn't keep pushing his music to Russian people in a Russian restaurant when the manager already decided he had his playing time.

[Middle Aged Grouch]

Quite intriguing in Thailand, as we often see aged farangs (with Thai wives). These farangs often can be ridiculous racists and make sultry comments against other foreigners. Some sort of a way to ease their own complex for being married to a Thai maybe.

[Rimmer]

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[Nick Carter icp]

The Guy went into Russian owned restaurant where the menu was only in Russian and he made a request to have his choice of music played and that the group of Russian stop playing their choice of music and listen to his choice of music .

   He went into a Russian restaurant and complained about Russian music being played ?

[aqua4]

The headline is strange. British man recounts shocking encounter with racist Russians in Phuket. I thought my word, white people calling white people racist in Thailand. This must be a new twist in the politically correct tales.

[BritScot]

15 minutes ago, Middle Aged Grouch said:

Quite intriguing in Thailand, as we often see aged farangs (with Thai wives). These farangs often can be ridiculous racists and make sultry comments against other foreigners. Some sort of a way to ease their own complex for being married to a Thai maybe.

Dribble!

[Nick Carter icp]

20 minutes ago, aqua4 said:

The headline is strange. British man recounts shocking encounter with racist Russians in Phuket. I thought my word, white people calling white people racist in Thailand. This must be a new twist in the politically correct tales.

You need to read the whole story , rather than just reading the headlines , to understand the story 

[scubascuba3]

It seems countries like Russia, Poland, Hungary are holding the fort against migrants so not too surprising some Russians are racist

[jak2002003]

I guess his choice in music was very bad.