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Engaging Thais on Issues Beyond the Mundane

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(From the International Herald Tribune)

 

In the age of George W. Bush, to travel the world is to be hyperconscious of being American. You keep expecting people to shake their fists or pity you.

 

So it's refreshing to visit a part of the world, Southeast Asia, where few give a fig about America. You announce you're American and people just smile and say, "Saw-ba-dee." Hello, welcome.

 

It's partly their Buddhism

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Guest Steve1903

The person who wrote that is an ignorant arrogant prick.

To summarise: the Thais are pretty thick and they all wish they were American.

Really?

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Guest BKKvisitor

The person who wrote that is an ignorant arrogant prick.

To summarise: the Thais are pretty thick and they all wish they were American.

Really?

 

 

The writer may well be an arrogant prick (something you'll never find on a gay Thai message board, thank God), but he never claimed that Thais all wish they were Americans. In fact, he claims just the opposite:

 

"So that's all it is? Southeast Asians have no objections to denizens of the Land of Bush because what they really want is to be Americans?

 

Not really. Consumerism yes, other American traits, no.

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Guest buaseng

the Thais are pretty thick and they all wish they were American.

They're definately thick if they wish they were American. As Oscar Wilde once famously said "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between".

 

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