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(08-02-2012 11:04 PM)Celtic Wrote:  

Also, don't bother sharing with anyone stories about picking up foreign women. Most Americans can't and won't make the distinction between a willing and eager foreign girl vs. a prostitute. If you tell anyone you picked up a foreign girl, they'll likely tell the story you are hitting up third world brothels.

Indeed. You mention you slept with a foreign girl (especially a Thai) it's instantly assumed that you paid her. Guys will ask me if I got with any girls in 'X' country, I'll tell them a few and they'll either ask "how much did you pay" or say "I can't believe you fucked a thai hooker". Where did I mention payment or hookers?

(08-02-2012 11:51 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

I lived there nearly 5 years and people here in Cali still tell me that - as if they're warning me or something (still trying to think up a good smart ass reply). Awesome to get advice from someone who's never been there even though you lived there for so long.

I had another girl who tried to clown on me for not having been to a ping pong show when her friend, who was with us at the time, went to a ping pong show and was only there for a few months.

Apparently, that meant her friend had been to the "real" thailand and I was somehow not savvy enough to find that side of it. As if any dipshit on Kao San Road can't walk in right off the street... On top of all that, she was clowning me later on about how all the women are prostitutes or ladyboys not minutes later. WTF

Given, the girl was only 19 and pretty immature, but these comments are pretty common from people who have never been. Only makes me want to go back more - so I can get away from them.

P.S. Thai people are pretty ignorant both about white people's intentions in Thailand as well, and their ideas about what goes on in other countries can be downright ludicruous (a lot of them don't even know where the Philippines is lol). So to be fair, I suppose you find this type of ignorance everywhere.

You have to laugh about the ping pong show thing. I've never been to one either, don't care if I ever see one, it's a load of pointless shit. There's nothing thai or cultural about it and I can live without seeing one. Going to Thailand to watch a ping pong show is quite sad.

Thais tend to not have a clue what's going on outside Thailand and many don't even know what's going on inside Thailand actually. Their geography skills are non existent and they have crazy ideas about what their neighbours get up to. Most of them are racist too, they don't like black people, don't like indian people, don't like Cambodians, Laotians, Vietnamese, Burmese. A lot of them love the Japanese and Koreans though, see them as superior. The only food they'll eat which is not thai is sushi or korean.

(08-03-2012 12:57 AM)Vicious Wrote:  

Is it really that bad? Thailand has one of the world's largest tourist economies. It's sad that people are unaware of its awesomeness as a vacation destination.

Some people are aware of that but it's reputation as a whoremongering destination proceeds it.