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**doctorzlo** · 09-21-2012, 04:57 PM

Trangam I agree with that. Complaining is one thing, but complaining while comparing to the way another country does things is simply a degrading way to speak. This applies more so if you are sitting in a country that is hosting you rather than your own country. For a foreigner to complain to a Thai person about the way something is done or not done always looks as though you are simply finding a way to talk trash about Thailand. The real problem is rarely going to be taken into consideration at all.

Consider the idea of host and guest. Certainly a prospective son-in-law would not go to meet her parents and be critical of the way her mother cooks, or her father's consumption of alcohol would he? I think it is very much the same in this case. Simply a courtesy, if nothing else out of respect for not having closed borders.

09-21-2012, 04:57 PM	#2
doctorzlo Join Date Jun 2006 Posts 4,488 Senior Member	Trangam I agree with that. Complaining is one thing, but complaining while comparing to the way another country does things is simply a degrading way to speak. This applies more so if you are sitting in a country that is hosting you rather than your own country. For a foreigner to complain to a Thai person about the way something is done or not done always looks as though you are simply finding a way to talk trash about Thailand. The real problem is rarely going to be taken into consideration at all. Consider the idea of host and guest. Certainly a prospective son-in-law would not go to meet her parents and be critical of the way her mother cooks, or her father's consumption of alcohol would he? I think it is very much the same in this case. Simply a courtesy, if nothing else out of respect for not having closed borders.
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