Quote: (08-02-2012 10:00 PM)travelbangenjoy Wrote:
Funny isn't it. People I know when I tell them I've been to Thailand try and tell me that all the girls there are prostitutes or only after my passport / money. Never mind that I've been there, they know better.
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.
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