Nignoy Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I only know one thing about Thai males, they are crap drivers, ALL of them. Interestingly what started this discussion was when I was driving home last night. I ride a bigger motorbike than most locals, the road opened up so I pulled back and flew off, came up to traffic so slowed right down and went through it slowly. After a minute or so a Thai guy on a scooter I had passed came flying up the inside lane (suicide move through such traffic) pulled right out in front of me, lifted up his ass and waved it at me, then started waving his scooter in a dancing movement. Happens all the time should I dare to overtake a local. What made this stand out though was that he was wearing a hospital uniform. A health professional. We got talking this morning about it, and many of the views in the OP were given by normal Westerners that have lived here for long times. this happens in any country you care to mention not just Thailand, try overtaking anyone on the European motorways, 99% of European drivers will accelerate to stop you overtaking even though the lanes inside them are empty, if I mention Australian drivers I will get a shitstorm of comments they are in a class of their own!and the wonderful polite and oh so perfect british drivers ,enuf said My opinion !! with over 50 years experience on and off driving in Thailand and Malaysia, the thai,s have seemed to have picked up all our bad driving habits!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munger Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I only know one thing about Thai males, they are crap drivers, ALL of them. Interestingly what started this discussion was when I was driving home last night. I ride a bigger motorbike than most locals, the road opened up so I pulled back and flew off, came up to traffic so slowed right down and went through it slowly. After a minute or so a Thai guy on a scooter I had passed came flying up the inside lane (suicide move through such traffic) pulled right out in front of me, lifted up his ass and waved it at me, then started waving his scooter in a dancing movement. Happens all the time should I dare to overtake a local. What made this stand out though was that he was wearing a hospital uniform. A health professional. We got talking this morning about it, and many of the views in the OP were given by normal Westerners that have lived here for long times. My opinion !! with over 50 years experience on and off driving in Thailand and Malaysia, the thai,s have seemed to have picked up all our bad driving habits!! PATHETIC, You blame the farangs for thai bad driving habits ? Pathetic. Only on this forum would a thai apologist try to defend thai driving 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thailiketoo Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 PATHETIC, You blame the farangs for thai bad driving habits ? Pathetic. Only on this forum would a thai apologist try to defend thai driving I agree and off topic too! This thread is meant to negatively stereotype Thai men. Anything except that would be off topic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickylies Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 for me your description seems to match most 50+ year old farangs i have met in thailand. suppressed frustrations from both a life in the west AND the east. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacovl46 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Well, if you mean with territorial them not liking the fact that a falang intrudes into their territory to chat with their ladies then yeah, I guess they are territorial. I've been here for 10 years and apart from the occasional taxi or tuk tuk driver I made only good experiences. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUDAS Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Only read the OP and sounds just like a UK chav. After 15 years here I find the acts of mindless aggression much lower here than back home but obviously different locations within Thailand comes into play. Sent from my GT-I8552 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post paulklee Posted February 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2014 I'm OK with the OP's position in this. I think it's fair enough to represent a proportion of Thai males, specifically ones that you don't know, with many of the identified characteristics. As a couple of posters have said, they KNOW many Thai males who are nothing like this. I think knowing the Thai male would mostly exclude that Thai person from the behaviour set the OP talks about. It seems clear enough to me that the OP was mainly talking about Thai males he doesn't know, doesn't work with and aren't his friends. Just some behaviour patterns of random Thai males that he and his mates have seen repeated enough to be noticeable and remarkable. That's fair enough, IMHO. Agree with all, or bits or disagree with all, up to you. But it seems fair comment. Look at it from another angle: some other posts in TV warn newbies: don't get angry with Thai males; don't cause a dispute that will mean loss of face; don't argue with motor-cycle taxi drivers; don't get involved with groups of Thai youths; etc. The advice is often to swallow your pride, conceal your western values and go with the Thai flow or you may end up getting very hurt. Surely all these warnings which seem to appear in TV daily, help to validate the OP's comments? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
true blue Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 dont you guys when you get in a click,talk about the real important things in life,like footie women exchange rates,must be a weird mixed up bunch of morons,talking about thai men and whether they get there knickers in a twist over somet in there face,i suppose and only suppose if they were katoys,they might have some of the bull shit the opening page bloke was talking about,but not even sure on that.i find most thais male or female with less aggro than farangs uk and usa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belg Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 there is anoher race, the one invading europe, that if you look wrongly at them, or they think you did, and by that insulted them, they will feel they have the right to come knife you down till you stop breeding in that same country, even town, there is another race that lives by the old book, religiously, sending their kids to special schools, and those people are never in the news for violence and others, maybe diamand fraud on a large scale, but who does that hurt physically, right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Suradit69 Posted February 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2014 wow, now there is a whole lot of stereotypical twaddle. Posted in a forum dedicated to purveyors of stereotypical twaddle. "They love to gloat when they see themselves as victorious ..." That would be the George Bush, "Mission Accomplished" and Neville Chamberlain "Peace for Our Time" syndrome ... and neither of these oblivious twits was known to be Thai. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonuk Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I generally find them pretty cool and friendly. I dont find many thai men trying to be competitive with me, but occasionaly it does happen however it happens a lot more in my home town in the uk, where men seem to like to challenge big strong boys like myself. The only generalisations you can really make about 30 million thai males is that generally they speak thai and have black hair. I suggest you read up on " confirmation bias " before this issue spoils your time here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRaymond Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Enough childishness on TV, don't you think? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post transam Posted February 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2014 I generally find them pretty cool and friendly. I dont find many thai men trying to be competitive with me, but occasionaly it does happen however it happens a lot more in my home town in the uk, where men seem to like to challenge big strong boys like myself. The only generalisations you can really make about 30 million thai males is that generally they speak thai and have black hair. I suggest you read up on " confirmation bias " before this issue spoils your time here. Don't mistake a smile for whats going on between the ears............. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim walker Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Sounds about right 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Gold Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Yes, OP, you are correct about a lot of Thai men. Their repressed anger is usually released when they sit behind the wheel of their motor vehicle, behind the anonymity of their tinted windows. Or it bursts out uncontrollably after ingestion of a bottle of Hong Thong. Bottom line is, always say "ok, you are right no problem" to them, especially in front of their acquaintances, always pay them every penny they are asking for and you will be fine, let them fight amongst each other. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Sounds about right When one has been here a while one begins to understand, AND that goes for Thai v Thai folk too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nithisa78 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I suspect most women from any culture in the world would say you've just described a "typical" male, irrespective of race. What I was going to say. Under developed male. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
long klong Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Hello Khon Thai Ben Khon Dee You first asked whether your description (which was a very good psychological analysis of human behaviour under certain circumstances)was a fair representation of Thai men. I think a fair answer will be that it probably was only in the case of the scooter driver whom you mention later on. But you do go on to say that you have a bigger motor bike than "most local Thai guys on a scooter". You add:"It happens all the time I dare to overtake a local." It may be that your simple act of overtaking is looked upon by others on smallr scooters as a bit of a show off stunt. If you did that in London, Paris or Rome you will most likely get the same reaction. Imagine yourself driving a Honda Civic and being overtaken by someone in a convertible who looks back on you with a litlle smirk on his face (at least you think it is a smirk). This kind of feeling will certainly be aggravated if the driver was a foreigner in your own country. In any case it is unfair to extrapolate or generalise behaviour/charater of an entire population of a country based on their reactions to other drivers on the road! I look forward to Your (and your friends)analysis of Thai men's behaviour based on other examples of interpersonal dealings which take place in an environemnt less stressful than in the middle of heavy traffic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitawatWatawit Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 "We got talking this morning about it, and many of the views in the OP were given by normal Westerners that have lived here for long times." I think you need to define what you mean by "normal" westerners before you can advance this topic (which I find absurd, btw). Do you really think they are normal and representative of a certain section of the foreign population? Are they a large section of that population? Would another section of that population regard them as abnormal rather than normal? You take things a bit too much to heart, OP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I suspect most women from any culture in the world would say you've just described a "typical" male, irrespective of race. What I was going to say. Under developed male. You are from ?............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel1 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 It's just like reading an article from discovery channel about Monkeys..... with that I am not saying that it is specifically connected with Thai men 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thailiketoo Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 It's just like reading an article from discovery channel about Monkeys..... with that I am not saying that it is specifically connected with Thai men Then what are you saying? Wink wink nudge nudge the bigots secret handshake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nithisa78 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 living and working here and knowing many thai males i dont see this description as attributable to them. the thai guys i know are a polite, friendly, generous and have a good sense of humour if i would chose a negative its that they are a little shy sometimes. I would agree. Pretty much all the Thai guys that I know, mostly professionals but even the security guard, are decent, honest, hard-working dudes. I would venture to say that the farangs in Thailand who describe the Thai guys the way the OP did are themselves very much like that. Birds of a feather.... Agree 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel1 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 It's just like reading an article from discovery channel about Monkeys..... with that I am not saying that it is specifically connected with Thai men Then what are you saying? Wink wink nudge nudge the bigots secret handshake? Erhm no, that it could also be about Monkeys? or western men on steroids or.. or... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertthebruce Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I have to disagree, my partner is a ''Thai Male'', and he is nothing like what you have written, My only negative about him, is that he is ''Stubborn'', but at the end of the day we can all be ''Stubborn''... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonypace02 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Whom are you asking about: Germans? Americans? Israelis? All Arabs? Japanese? Spaniards? Latvians? Angolans? Ethio... Oh, Thais. I suppos so.It's hard to tell them apart at such times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Whom are you asking about: Germans? Americans? Israelis? All Arabs? Japanese? Spaniards? Latvians? Angolans? Ethio... Oh, Thais. I suppos so.It's hard to tell them apart at such times. Nower days, well yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewhowalkswithbuffalo Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) I really do wonder if the people on this forum who defend Thai's and their sometimes pathetic attitudes, actually live or have ever lived in Thailand for a prolonged period. I would go as far as to consider such people as either retires or people who deal with Thai's on a very limited basis and the Thai's they do deal with are either very well educated possibly western educated and/ or in the service industry where they are being paid to be polite to you. Try and work in an industry in Thailand where you really are the sore thumb. Or maybe they are just liberals and would have given the likes of Saddam Hussein and Stalin the time of day just to be politically correct and polite. Edited February 6, 2014 by onewhowalkswithbuffalo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeijoshinCool Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 So all of this racist drivel came from a road incident(s)? Geez. Let's just say this, OP, no matter how hard you try to perpetuate your bigoted views, you will never be better than the average Thai guy. Don't answer a fool according to his folly, Berkshire, lest you also be like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbalEd Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 To OP: You say "Not saying they are my views ..." Then whose views are they? Sounds like yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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