[layevymed]

Your reactions are so typical. Just because I don’t agree with something I have no right to even go to that country? Just because I don’t follow the rules? You talk about respect? I respect every human being I come in contact with. Just because I don’t stand for some song on the TV I am wrong? Do you have open eyes? Do you see the people begging on the street? Do you see the lepers on the foot bridge? Do you see the Thai’s working in Mcdonalds for only 5,00 baht a month, while they live in shacks built of corrugated tin? Do they get respect because they stand when told to do so by the powers that be? What about you? Do you deal with Thai’s on a human level? Not just as servants? When they are bringing you your beer Chang in the restaurants. I have been supporting my Thai girl friend’s “education”. I have been doing so for 2 years! I do it because I love her and respect her and want a good future for her. You tell me I don’t have respect because I don’t stand like some servant? I have been paying for her school because when she works she gets starvation wages. Why is she paying for an education? In other countries. Developed countries it is free. What about health care in Thailand? You try being poor and getting hurt and see what happens to you. If Thais had respect for anything would the cannals be black and full of toxic waste? Do you know how many children die a year swimming in dirty canals? 2,000 kids a year die because they drown. Poor kids can’t go to swimming pools. Do they get respect? The easiest thing for you to do is say GO HOME! Or DON”T COME HERE!…..Have you even read your history? Well if you did it would tell you that in the past Thai’s were slaves for the Rulers. They were even tattooed like property. Temples don’t built themselves. Slavery didn’t “end” until under Rama 5. If you think it ended at all. But talk to those people working for nothing in McDonalds…..I have seen foreigners go into Thailand and the second you criticize anything they jump like a monkey onto your back. Saying GO HOME! DON”T COME HERE! Well it is my right to go anywhere I choose. And say what I choose and do what I choose.. If you want to walk around in the Land Of Smiles smiling in pure and blind ignorance fine with me…Do what you want. Stand up and be silent…..Oh yeah it’s not ironic that I use the name Som Tam which is a Thai food. If you had any understanding of thai Culture you would understand that it is a joke. I must explain this to you too. You see thai society is very classist society. If classist is a word.(if it isn’t it is now) Why do you think they don’t like dark people? Because dark work in fields and are generally poor. So of course they don’t like dark people. Well also it is a Lao or Issan food which comes from the north East which is poor. And it is considered a poor persons food. So if you have a rich Bangkok Thai girlfriend ask her if she likes Som Tam. She will say NO. Because it is for those poor people……What people living in Thailand should read the history. Learn to read and write thai. Like I have done, Then they can come up with some rational arguments better than just GO HOME OR GET OUT OF HERE!…..Oh yeah another thing……..Remember as there is a folly of one there is also a folly of 10 million…. If 100 million people do something stupid it is still stupid. No matter how many people do it…….What if I were to tell everybody they have to stand up for Mickey Mouse? I mean I have not met the King or know the king. But I don’t know Mickey Mouse either.. So if I told you to stand for Mickey would you? Even if I was a worshipper of Mickey Mouse? And I believe that eating Ice cream was wrong? Why the #### not eat pork? It is damm good. I like it… Everybody together let’s sing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! M-I_C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!!! Everybody together!! RESPECT!!!! Now stand up!! M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!!!