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O.k perhaps we have different definitions about being different and treated differently. Thailand has less nursing homes( I don't know any), because Thais are helping and taking care of the older folk...it's a norm..it's life in Thailand. Same as helping handicapped folk, it's the part of living in Thai community...it's the norm; building a ramp for handicapped veterans would not be a norm, it would be for the sake of tourists and helping tourism business in Thailand.

To make Bangkok more accessible to disabled people it is not necessary to 'build ramps', it's more a matter of not placing so many obstructions, motorbikes, rubbish etc. on pavements, addressing the state of the pavements (fixing holes etc.) and traffic stopping at pedestrian crossings (isn't that the whole point of pedestrian crossings anyway?). All of these issues would benefit society as a whole and not just disabled people.

As I have already said, the other issues the letter writer brought up in the "Bangkok Post" are, in my view as someone who uses a wheelchair and spent time in Bangkok and Thailand both with my wife and alone, incorrect. I have written to the BP with my alternative viewpoint

David