Popular Post theguyfromanotherforum Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 I will probably live in Thailand more than Canada. I just like it better. To me it's a better place to live in, but I just can't get over certain things that make Thailand an extremely obvious 3rd world country. My example is public busses. The complete disregard for the customer and the way the busses don't even stop when people with children or elderly enter and exit unlike in Canada and I assume other developed countries where I see people take their sweet time to do so. Also any lack of facilities on the bus for disabled people makes it very third country. What would be your example? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mesquite Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 Oh, how do I love to bash the Thais? Let me count the ways. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post theguyfromanotherforum Posted February 7, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 There is a difference between bashing and facts. 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lukecan Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 (edited) Anyone who calls Thailand a third world country probably hasn't been to a third world country before. Go to Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh , Myanmar etc, these can be regarded as 3rd world countries. Bangkok has a public transport infrastructure which rivals that of the first world. Skytrain is amazing, the highways road system is above average etc. Thailand is an emerging country, def not 3rd world. Edited February 7, 2015 by Lukecan 49 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Scott Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 Discussing the country is fine. Disparaging remarks directed at all Thais will not be permitted. Please exercise care in your posts. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A1Str8 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Just about everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ravip Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 There is a difference between bashing and facts. Really the truth is the 1st world mentality will never 'sync' else where. The developed should reside in their own birth places. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JockPieandBeans Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 Anyone who calls Thailand a third world country probably hasn't been to a third world country before. Go to Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh , Myanmar etc, these can be regarded as 3rd world countries. Bangkok has a public transport infrastructure which rivals that of the first world. Skytrain is amazing, the highways road system is above average etc. Thailand is an emerging country, def not 3rd world. I could add a lot more. Thailand a 3rd World Country. Not by a long shot. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CharlieH Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 Its not a "nanny" state thank God ! stop trying to make it one, why oh why do people have to make comparisons to the place they would leave given the chance. It is what it is, now leave it the hell alone or just stay in your "nanny" cotton wool you precious little thing. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post simon43 Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 Thailand is not a third=world country. But many aspects of this country that we take for granted in our home countries or other, more developed countries are absolutely 'third-world' 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theguyfromanotherforum Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 I guess I should have phrased the question differently. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeijoshinCool Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 I guess I should have phrased the question differently. . Maybe … what about Thailand makes it a first-world country? That would cut down on the confrontational posts. Of course, it would also cut down on posts altogether. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kevvy Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 It is amazing how many westerners want to come and live in this "third world country " 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeijoshinCool Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 It is amazing how many westerners want to come and live in this "third world country " . Not really. Some personality types prefer living in a third-world country. To each his own. But they could just a well stay home. With all the overwhelming debt, pretty soon our own countries will be third world. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevvy Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I was being sarcastic . Living here is great . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post richard_smith237 Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 Is the term Third World still used ? I thought Thailand was classed as a developing nation. To reach 'Developed' status a good start would be the eradication of corruption and nepotism which at current levels damage the country to such a degree issues impacting the everyday lives of the average citizen, visitor and tourist wouldn't exist. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post uptheos Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 I think the main reason that the OP thinks Thailand is a 3rd world country is because he has never traveled and seen a third world country. If he had then he wouldn't have wrote such a ridiculous post, which demonstrates his lack of knowledge regarding the 3rd world. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiss1960 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I guess I should have phrased the question differently. . Maybe … what about Thailand makes it a first-world country? That would cut down on the confrontational posts. Of course, it would also cut down on posts altogether. and... it would stop the majority of expat to live here, since they could not afford to live in a first-world country anymore... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theguyfromanotherforum Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 I wanna apologize. It's a poorly worded title. However I do think that public bus service is definitely third world country like. This does not include bts or MRT which is definitely better than where I come from. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thai at Heart Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 Selective enforcement. Police and courts are a joke. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy B Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Clean drinkable running water puts a country up a notch. Not the bottled stuff from the shop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiss1960 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 what defines a third world country? basically - extrem poverty.. - lacking industry - lacking infrastructure (TV, Internet, Phone connections, electricity, water) - lacking health system - lacking education system any of these things that you would say Thailand suffers from? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theguyfromanotherforum Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 *Deleted post edited out* So you think it's OK for busses to be in deplorable condition where drivers don't have any responsibility for the passengers? That makes it a third world in my book.BTW...I was born in a third world country so I know what it is better than you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Swiss1960 Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 I guess I should have phrased the question differently. how about asking this way: what steps must Thailand take in order to become a first-world country... but then my answer would be that I hope they will never try that but only change few things and slowly, so that the Thai people can follow these steps... I like Thailand the way it is with all good and bad things.. it is the country with which I did fall in love... it is like a marriage vow... "in good times and in bad times"... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sirineou Posted February 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2015 Nothing makes Thailand a third world country, because it is not a third world country before one starts a Thread, one owns it to himself, and to his readers to at the very least , do some basic resesrch Google is your friend " what makes a country third world" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiss1960 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Nothing makes Thailand a third world country, because it is not a third world country before one starts a Thread, one owns it to himself, and to his readers to at the very least , do some basic resesrch Google is your friend " what makes a country third world" or look at my post here http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/798456-what-makes-thailand-a-third-world-country/?p=9042601 :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirineou Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Nothing makes Thailand a third world country, because it is not a third world country before one starts a Thread, one owns it to himself, and to his readers to at the very least , do some basic resesrch Google is your friend " what makes a country third world" or look at my post here http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/798456-what-makes-thailand-a-third-world-country/?p=9042601 :-) Good point unfortunately, I knew from page one, what affect the OP was designed to get and where this thread was headed I missed enough time from my life reading the OP to devote any more reading the replies so I missed apropos replies such as yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveAustin Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Careful, op, you'll upset the loved-up numpties. But, yes, Muang Thai is 'developing', dear boy, not a languishing hole, you've committed a big faux-pas there. It's got semi-decent highways, a massive factory base, a thriving capital, infrastructure and some very clever young folk. However, one could be forgiven for thinking the contrary when observing some of the thought processes and absolute disregard for others that take place, ON OCCASION, where facets of Buddhism are routinely cast aside. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritsSikkink Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 There is a difference between bashing and facts. It is a fact that the whole idea of third world countries is outdated. http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritsSikkink Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 (edited) I wanna apologize. It's a poorly worded title. However I do think that public bus service is definitely third world country like. This does not include bts or MRT which is definitely better than where I come from. So you classify a whole countries performance solely on their bus service? How is Canada's public transport system outside the big cities classified? Edited February 7, 2015 by FritsSikkink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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