I hate people like…..
More than a month of Thailand and Cambodia has passed and we have to get used to the Dutch climate again. My thoughts about my past trip are still swirling through my head and plans to escape the coming winter period are already starting to take shape.
Despite efforts by the TAT to end Thailand's hated two-price system, it remains. So if you look like an Asian, you pay 300 baht for the Chiang Mai Night Safari, but if you look like a white-nose farang, you pay 800 baht for exactly the same trip.
I'm Lao and so what?!
The fact that people from the Isan regularly experience disapproval and discrimination is not only limited to ordinary people but also affects monks. In an article on the Isaan Record, a former monk, Professor Tee Anmai (ธีร์ อันมัย, Thie An-mai) talks about his own experiences. This is his story.
Dual pricing by Thai state hospitals is legal
Erwin Buse is a Dutchman who has been in conflict for years with the administration of a state hospital in Hua Hin and the Ministry of Health in Bangkok. He underwent many cancer treatments in that hospital and noticed that he had to pay several hundred baht more than a Thai patient.
The Thai superiority complex
Casual insults are hurled at people from Laos all over Thailand every day. These insults stem from a sense of superiority instilled in Thais at school from an early age: “Thais are better than their neighbours, the Lao.”
Discrimination
Looking at my many vacation photos that I took traveling through Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam during the months of January to early April, two photos taken in Vietnam remind me of the current discussion about discrimination.
Reader Submission: I feel less welcome in Thailand
I'm just starting to get the jitters more and more at the way the military government is systematically discriminating against the white fellow man (farang), read several things today that show this on Facebook.
Those who have a Thai partner often have to deal with annoying prejudices in their immediate environment. You can read examples of this in this statement of the week. Do you have a Thai partner and therefore face nasty prejudices? How do you deal with that and what do you do about it? Do you also discuss this topic with your partner? Join the discussion and comment.
There has been a riot in Thailand over a commercial about a pill that would lighten the skin color. On social media, Thais are going crazy and especially the sentence: “Winners just have to be white” has to pay for it.
A remarkable report in Bangkok Post about a Thai who visits a popular tourist destination in Krabi with his friends. Because the man looked a lot like a Farang (foreigner), he had to pay ten times (!) for his entrance ticket.
Three footballers from the English first division club Leicester City misbehaved during their stay in Thailand. An orgy with Thai ladies was filmed and the gentlemen had little respect for the ladies, as witnessed by a number of discriminatory statements, the Sunday Mirror writes.
Discrimination in Pattaya
Paul Schiphol is back from his holiday in Thailand. His stay in the 'Land of Smiles' was fantastic, but he had a sour experience in Pattaya.
Unilever in Thailand accused of skin color discrimination
The British/Dutch multinational Unilever has become involved in a riot in Thailand over a false advertisement for whitening body lotion.