My girlfriend was struggling to divide 2 by 5

[johnthompson]

So I asked my girlfriend to divide 2 by 5 and she was struggling at it really took a while for her to get the answer. My girlfriend has a degree from ramkamhaeng university and is a car seller. She has to make calculations for her customers on a daily basis. This stuff is not even high school stuff.

Furthermore she doesn't know who Charles Darwin is. She knows nothing about western music before 2006. She sometimes does recognize some classic songs but she just doesn't know the artist or name of the song and very rarely. She doesn't even know anything about thailand. I told her that foreigners couldn't own land and she was surprised. And just tons of other stuff. People on TV know tons more about thailand than she does. Also she believes anything other people say.

Sometimes I feel like I am talking to a 6 year old kid trapped in a 30 year old woman body. Are thai people really this ignorant? If so I fear for their future and I fear that other foreigners are going to take advantage of them cause they believe anything I say. Also why do the younger generation know about songs after 06, 07 or 08 but before that they know nothing. Why around that time?

[Paangjang]

1. Yes

2. Question no.1 answers question no.2

[Berkshire]

Thai women who date farangs are really not representative of Thais at large, as your example so clearly demonstrates. So to answer your question of "are thai people really this ignorant?," the answer is "no." And why are you dating such ignorant women? Best you can do?

[rene123]

I believe there are problems with the quality of the average Thai teacher, but it is hard to generalize to include them all. Thailand seems to have a thriving economy despite the graft and corruption. That tells me there must be some street smarts somewhere. I've also seen some surprising lack of what I would call common knowledge. I've never been short changed in a bank. I'm sure we can all find isolated cases that would support your theory.

[peterquixote]

Yes I was making my thesis that the moon landing was a hoax.

Took me a minute to realise that my wife had no idea what I was talking about. She was born after that event in a village without a newspaper or TV.

[Nowhereman60]

Why are you so ignorant to have a girlfriend that stupid. Could it be a large age gap between the two of you?

[samran]

So you are going out with a 30 year old dill.

Some people want nothing more than this. You clearly do.

[transam]

Why are you so ignorant to have a girlfriend that stupid. Could it be a large age gap between the two of you?

THAT, is not a good reply. ................Gawd........................

[kevvy]

why even come to a forum to complain about your GF. does she know you have done this .. Why cant you teach her yourself and not complain to strangers about her. If she is your GF you must love her , so help her . cheers

[Mooner]

I have seen the calculation thing all over Thailand. I think it may be the reliance on calculators. I have seen a Thai lady type 2 x 100 in a calculator.

I think unless someone has been internationally schooled or they know many Farangs then they are unlikely to know the other points you are making.

Im pretty sure most Farang dont know any Thai, Chinese or Japanese songs especially over a few years old and im guessing many dont know anything about Asian writers.

[transam]

Must confess , the shop I buy beer at 40bht a bottle, 5 at a time, 200 bht. Done so for years. Still they use the calculator at all my purchases.

[WitawatWatawit]

Must confess , the shop I buy beer at 40bht a bottle, 5 at a time, 200 bht. Done so for years. Still they use the calculator at all my purchases.

How many times a day would that be? Have they ever made a mistake?

[AnotherOneAmerican]

Ask her how many weeks in a year?

[transam]

Must confess , the shop I buy beer at 40bht a bottle, 5 at a time, 200 bht. Done so for years. Still they use the calculator at all my purchases.

How many times a day would that be? Have they ever made a mistake?

YES, they gave me toooooooooooo much change, BUT, being an honest guy, I gave it back. ............

[harrry]

I once had a Science teacher girlfriend in Australia. The curriculum used a motor car engine as an example for one section. She did not know what scientific laws she could teach by using the flywheel and had no idea of using Boyules law for the compression. In other words she was a science teacher without a clue. I do not know how much science her students learned.

[jpinx]

Must confess , the shop I buy beer at 40bht a bottle, 5 at a time, 200 bht. Done so for years. Still they use the calculator at all my purchases.

They put new batteries in and hope for a better answer ?

[MrWorldwide]

I have absolutely no problem with shop assistants using a calculator and showing me the result - how is that any different to someone racking it up in a till (with or without a barcode scanner) and asking me for the resulting amount ? I never walk into a shop thinking 'Hey, I bet I spent more years at school than these folks !'. When it comes to women, I'm not attracted to them on the basis of their ability to do basic arithmetic : 36-22-34 are about the only figures that interest me ....

[Berkshire]

So you are going out with a 30 year old dill.

Some people want nothing more than this. You clearly do.

Amazing that some guys would choose to be with a woman such as this, and then come on an anonymous forum to complain about it. This is why expats in Thailand get no respect.

[greg71]

Ramkamheang uni ,well enough said then .

[transam]

So you are going out with a 30 year old dill.

Some people want nothing more than this. You clearly do.

Amazing that some guys would choose to be with a woman such as this, and then come on an anonymous forum to complain about it. This is why expats in Thailand get no respect.

Why ?

[jmccarty]

You would probably be amazed to know that prior to 1980, Thailand was in black and white! Really! Then someone imported the first colours and things gradually turn into coloured things.

It was documented in the 1998 film Pleasantville.

Western music was only introduced on the local radio stations in 2006

And maths have not been introduced here yet, the government has that in the master plan for 2017.

[mauGR1]

Thai women who date farangs are really not representative of Thais at large, as your example so clearly demonstrates. So to answer your question of "are thai people really this ignorant?," the answer is "no." And why are you dating such ignorant women? Best you can do?

I have to struggle to find a sentence i half-agree with here...And the attack on the OP is totally unjustified.

In my experience, and i am not talking about ordinary workers, all the Thai graduates i talked with, denoted an abysmal lack of common knowledge....At the point that i have given up talking more than food and trivial stuff.

Instead of looking down on Thais, we Westerners should be grateful for having been given a good education since the first years.

Just saying..

[johnthompson]

It could be worse. I could be dating one of those bar girls like most. But I guess here everyone is dating hi-so chinese thai people with ivy league degrees.

Of course I know my girlfriend isn't of the highest quality. I'd happily trade in my current gf for a hi-so chinese gf if someone can explain me how.

[Sigurris]

My ex wife had a degree from Thailand and a Masters from Australia but didn't know who Shakespeare, Bill Clinton or the Rolling Stones were. She sparked up when I said the Beatles but could not tell me a song or member of the band but she said she had heard the name. Btw she is 40 years old.

Thais are told from day one that everything they need is in Thailand and everything that is good comes from Thailand and are not taught or encouraged to look outside Thailand, so I suppose it is hardly suprising that they have no knowledge of popular culture from the West. That doesn't explain how " I wanna be a billionaire" assualts my ears everytime I go out though!!.

When I was teaching 74% of my group students (all adult learners) some of whom worked at GM thought the car was invented in Thailand.

on a lighter note:

I recently went into a 7/11 and bought 3 packets of sweets at 10 baht a packet. The girl worked it out on a calculator. I gave 40 baht and..... well you know the rest.

Edited August 27, 2013 by Sigurris

[jpinx]

I like to go into a 7 when it's not busy, get whatever I want and get the correct total together in my hand. When I give the girl the right money I wait for her to acknowledge that it's correct after she counts it, and give me a receipt because the expression on their face is priceless sometimes - it ranges from a huge smile to a totally blank, non-understanding stare. Some get it - some don't.

As an aside - I've never found the girls in the busy street market to be bad at maths - except in their favour occasionally !!

Edited August 27, 2013 by jpinx

[lomatopo]

Did you ask your GF to divide 5 into 2, in Thai? Did she understand your question? I think they must learn fractions here in, what, M3?

If a Thai person asked me to divide five into two, in Thai, I would fail. Am I ignorant?

[balo]

I know some blonde girls in my home country that could not even explain why 2 + 2 is 4 . I think this is a world wide problem .

[Berkshire]

Thai women who date farangs are really not representative of Thais at large, as your example so clearly demonstrates. So to answer your question of "are thai people really this ignorant?," the answer is "no." And why are you dating such ignorant women? Best you can do?

I have to struggle to find a sentence i half-agree with here...And the attack on the OP is totally unjustified.

In my experience, and i am not talking about ordinary workers, all the Thai graduates i talked with, denoted an abysmal lack of common knowledge....At the point that i have given up talking more than food and trivial stuff.

Instead of looking down on Thais, we Westerners should be grateful for having been given a good education since the first years.

Just saying..

Common knowledge? You mean common "western" knowledge. I'd ask about your knowledge of Asia or Thailand specifically, but I'm rather positive it's abysmal. The OP's GF is not exactly young, but young people in general are not going to be taught basic math the same as we were. They make it up by having better knowledge of IT, social networking, and the like than us old farts.

As for the OP, I just find it comical that he would come on here and essentially broadcast that his GF is stupid. Does he think that this reflects positively on him somehow?

[HeijoshinCool]

OP:

After reading your post, where you openly criticize your girlfriend, even calling her stupid, my guess is she's only trying to make you think she is stupid, so you'll leave her alone and she can move on. Letting you save face and all ....

[Issangeorge]

Did you ask your GF to divide 5 into 2, in Thai? Did she understand your question? I think they must learn fractions here in, what, M3?

 

If a Thai person asked me to divide five into two, in Thai, I would fail. Am I ignorant?

Thai students start to learn fractions on P-4.

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