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Guava I bet that made it feel even more strange that there were not many other farangs there if any. Thta would be kinda cool, just the idea that you may have been the only farang there, and the location of that being the case is what makes it even seem kinda cool to me.

FaranginPhetch that was specifically what I was talking about, being asked to leave or not even asked, just being put on the list without me knowing it. Imagine going for a simple visa renewal and being detained and asked to leave the kingdom never to return. Do they need a reason? Not at all. So why would I press my limits, especially in the sensitive political realm? It is far easier to use the anonymous nature of the internet for some things in my opinion. Safer anyway.

I am not one to be critical of Thailand as a whole. Maybe the politics, but certainly not the history. I think SiamJai gave a hidden reply to the statement by Vision. Very cryptic! LOL

I don't agree about the concept of Thailand never being colonized though. Maybe the French have never colonized, or the British have never colonized her, but consider the definition of colonization.

Colonization - the act or process of establishing control over a country or area by a more powerful and often distant country.

Pizza Hut, McDonald's, KFC, Orange Mobile, hell even the conept of the malls and materialism. Materialism and the 'need it now' attitude have colonized Thailand and the epidemic is rampant through out all of her major cities and tourist areas. So to say they have stood firm in avoiding being conquered by outside countries and their ways of life is to be in complete denial of how off-track Thailand has become in pursuit of happiness, wealth and the sense of 'keeping ahead of the Jones'.