Why Do Farangs Wai Hookers?

[chrisinth]

The OP is obviously trying to intergrate into a society that will always see him as an outsider.

What happens in a go-go bar is outside of the behaviour found within the normal day-to-day fabric of Thai society.

The rules go out the window.,

But.. A well educated English and Japanese speaking sex worker at the top of her game can be pulling in a couple of hundred thousand a month. Is she above me in the Thai social structure? Hell, yes. Does her presence ellicit a wai from those less wealthy? Probably.

The wai rule in Thailand as far as I can tell is to return every wai and wai those that could improve your own social standing.

Thai's do suffer from acute social anxiety. A wai from a farang makes them feel good about themselves. What's wrong with making people feel good?

There are a thousand other things that you can do to make yourself look like a tool. A wai is seen for what it is, a humble gesture of friendliness.

Thanks GFL, you beat me to it. I was going to ask what happens to the tiers of Thai society in the wealth scale irrregardless of how the money is earned. Who would be wai'ing who?

The whole post is incorrect anyway, unless the OP is talking about foreigners initiating the wai instead of responding to it. Whereas it is not expected that the foreigner responds, those that do are showing respect (doesn't matter with who) to the person who initiated the action.

Foreigners who wai first (to bar girls) show themselves up as tourists IMHO.

When dealing with service staff, one does not need to respond with a wai to be polite, a smile and a head nod is a polite and acceptable acknowledgement of a wai received.

Try a little experiment, when you going to a restaurant where you are welcomed by a wei, wei back and almost always you will get one back again, because it is not a norm for customer to wei the staff(hope i am making sense)

I know where you are coming from phi; I actually do as you have said, nods and smiles work for me and always have. If it makes the foreigner happy to wai back to service staff, all the better for them. Depending what service it is, they may enjoy it more from that Thai experience.........

[HeavyDrinker]

At out yearly Christmas bash I dance with ALL members of our staff (there's only 34) but we slap on "Clog Dance" by Violinski and have a sort of "Barn Dance" if you will, and then follow it with "Popcorn" by whoever (I don't really care but it's fun) and then Mason William's "Classical Gas" and then it's al sorted and we all get pissed.

Life here is as simple as you make it.

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[HeavyDrinker]

Oh, and then "The Hustle" (but I don't know who done that neither) but it's a groove mama....

Edited July 15, 2012 by HeavyDrinker

[thrilled]

I don't pay alot of attention to what others do.I figure to each his own.

[MiG16]

The topic of who wai who first, or about how good or bad prostitutes are

All have been done several times on this forum

Giving it a new twist still doesn't allow you to talk down on women. Regardless of their line of profession.

ADDED: in case I was not clear - derogatory remarks against women (or men really) are against forum rules, and will not be tolerated