Thai editorial: Chinese barbarians at the boarding gate

[Donnie Brasco]

I am not a racist, but...

Insert racist sentiment here.

I have to confess here to those who may not yet have figured it out . . . . . I rather enjoy my more frequent than occasional dabbles in racist banter and bavardage.

I find these forays into empiricism and pure reason will effectively purge a soul tortured by intellectual impurities.

Edited January 2, 2015 by Donnie Brasco

[ultimate weapon]

Don't want to sour relations and turn Thai against Chinese , or they'll never get the Tracks built

The indigenous Thais might start turning against the Chinese who are already here.

Thaksin, Porntip (the forensics woman with the crazy hair) and Abhisit are actually Chinese already in Thailand. And so is the bulk of Thailand's mega-rich.

I didn't know porntip was chinese? She doesn't look chinese at all.

Another thing is you cannot really define a thai with no chinese heritage from their external appearance. Do you know a lot thais look pretty chinese but with no chinese in them.

I'm actually still trying to figure out this. It's said the original thais came from china from a minority tribe called the dai. They migrated due to the mongol invasion during 1200s. Anyway they managed conquer the various native groups in present day thailand like isan, mon, khmer etc and they all took up thai language and culture which has influence from cambodia so that modern thai is quite different from the dai in china today. Then you hear the northern thais are quite poor and the central thais are in power and when they say central thais they don't mean thais with chinese heritage so i don't get how all of this came about.

[wellred]

I'll be landing at swamy on Thursday and you can rest assured this farang won't be taking any crap. Anyone that tries to push me will get a quick shot to the shins. I've actually booked a VIP fast track service for Bkk so am tempted to perform a gesture of some sort to them in the queue as I'm going through. Something that wouldn't look out of place on WWE.

[daveAustin]

This is one of the benefits of a communist country. Take them away and punish them severely. No one is gonna cry about it. I say lock them up for a few years and post pictures on social networking as a warning to future troublemakers.

Heads on spikes might be more effective.

[45slap]

I thought only Americans were ugly.

[doctormann]

I've experienced the amazing behaviour of Chinese air passengers on quite a few internal flights in China. As has been said, the minute that the wheels touch the ground, the seatbelts come off and it's a total scrum getting the bags out of the overhead lockers. Why do they do this, you ask? Well, the 'me first' syndrome certainly has something to do with it but there might be a more prosaic reason, as I shall now explain.

I had a Chinese colleague at university - he was actually a professor so, you might assume, intelligent and well-educated. I was discussing the in-flight behaviour with him and he reckoned that it's largely to do with the 'Dragon In The Toilet' problem. I'm not joking - he was saying that a lot of the less well educated Chinese are scared to death of using a toilet on an aeroplane because of the 'whoosh' noise that occurs on flushing! Therefore, if the flight is relatively short they won't use the toilet and, accordingly, are bursting by the time the plane lands.

I wasn't sure that he was being serious but, subsequently, I have observed the Chinese making an all out dash, en masse, to the toilets in the terminal building so he might have been telling the truth! So, no time to be lost on landing - just have to get to the toilet asap before something leaks out!

DM

[katana]

In a similar vein, saw this story last week:

Chinese woman urinated on bus then threw sanitary towel at driver before breaking his nose

http://metro.co.uk/2014/12/26/woman-throws-maxi-pad-at-driver-after-urinating-on-bus-4999946/

Edited January 6, 2015 by katana