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Old 11-11-2005, 07:00 AM   #20
StitlyDute

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> "It will disappoint foreign tourists visiting Thailand, as drinking alcohol, such as wine and beer, is part of their everyday routine."

I find this wording and the way the article is written extremely offensive to the scores of tourists whose "daily routine" does not include getting pissed. it sounds like all foreign visitors are drunkards and alcoholics who will cause mayhem if they cannot get their daily fix.
I don't see a problem with a little bit of disdain being shown towards the alcoholic habits of foreign tourists. Imagine if in your home town large numbers of seedy, neon-lit bars full of drunk men and other bars full of 'accesible women' cropped up and were propped up by foreign tourists.

The (obviously untrue) impression that the author gives that 'all foreign visitors are drunkards and alcoholics' may just be a reflection of the impression that tourists to thailand, as a whole, give off.
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