RANT THIS SPACE ~ Farang Thai bashers Vs Farang Farang bashers
The title is misleading because it's pigeon-holing and it's labeling and putting people into groups and giving the Defenders of the Realm - you know, those high and mighty enough to believe they are above criticising their adopted country and that their adopted country is above criticism and it's only moaning scumbag foreigners who should go home because they don't have the right to complain about things that are wrong here that affect us and should be right - an excuse to set more divisions and elevate themselves above those farangs who are unworthy in their eyes.
Well I got news for you DrBob and Stroller et all, there are no divisions - we are all the same stupid, moronic animal - but we are living in a country that wants to have it's own cake and eat it and keep the plate and examples like my copy and paste below just aren't right and should be complained about in public.
If a Thai gave constructive critique about farangs, hit the weaknesses yet gave credit where it was due - then that Thai may not change anything about it, but he/she would certainly have my respect, and that of other Thais.
Now, if Smeg or somebody like-minded complains about something perfectly valid, there's this farang hierarchy that swoops down and defends against every justified rant and stamps THAI BASHING on the arrest sheet.
This mutated from my camera thread:
I took my camera to the Samsung people in Silom and I got a call today from the dumbass customer service girl saying - in English so broken it needs a fucking overhaul - that to fix my camera would cost 1,900 baht.
'Hmm, at that price I would hope to have it ready before I go to Laos at the weekend.'
"Misderr wiw take abau sewen day"
'Well, for 2,000 baht do you think it would be possible for me to have it ready in five days as I would rather like to take my camera with me on holiday.'
This took three attempts to explain and she got confused and said she would call me back. I could almost hear the cogs and mechanics in her little brain try and compute something that had not been in the staff handbook.
So, I am half expecting a call back. I could go there in person and say the same thing and she would give an inane, nervous little laugh - look over her shoulder and say "Jus one minute please" and go and get somebody else to deal with the situation.
IF I explained the whole thing to her in Thai - which, what with her being a customer service representative and everything, no customer should have to do - but let's say I did; I estimate from her level of dimness that it would confuse her that her own language was passing farang lips - this has happened to me many times from many Thai's of similar dimness - which are plentiful, they are all over the place in uniforms and silly hats and rehearsed smiles.
All you members who bash moaners like me in defence of Thai's in this silly self-blowjob of chivalry - I think it is just that, you need a minority to snoot over and for convenience you convince yourself that is exactly what us-who-complain are doing. Can you not see that some criticism is for a greater good, and that if the criticism is un-constructive it is not the carper who is making it so?
Sometimes we just get fustrated that we are in a country that wants to have it's cake and eat it, that wants the benefits of our society yet not the basic understandings of what makes the few benefits of our society (and very few there are these days) beneficial - it's that simple.
Credit where it's due, Thai's are generally friendly and helpful and there are some wonderful individuals here. In six and a half years I have had the pleasure to know some very sharp and intelligent Thai's - but shite where it's due also, and I will generalize because being of the same species as Thai's and farangs I have the fucking right to generalize as we all do and I would do it wherever I lived.
How many Asian's here do you know who like Thais?
Ask a Filipino or a Chinese person (who isn't filthy rich) what they think of Thai's and you will get the same reluctant answer. They don't like them, and in the case of the former - Thai's treat them like shit and Filipino's and Burmese do not generally get smiled at and are considered below lower class citizens. It's sadly the same with half black half Thai's - (unless you are a minted golf megastar then you will be offered auto-citizenship).. Now THIS is not copying the better aspects of our society and I doubt that complaining about it will make a difference but frustration needs to be vented.
If I hated Thailand I wouldn't be here, I can just see where it's going - and it seems to be down the same shit pipe that our countries went down which is why were here in the first place. There's too much stupidity in the word, it's more fucking ubiqitious than hydrogen and there's far too much of it here - it needs to be dispersed or shaken out of them.
Don't you ever feel like a frustrated step-father to Thailand? I would love to see Thai's setting an example to the rest of Asia and making us proud to be here but it seems that us humans are all following the same road to doom.