I was in a Thai bar last night and had 4 very very cute beer cheer girls stop and chat with me during the course of the evening. All of them gave me their phone numbers. The Thai colleague I was with was gobsmacked (and very envious), and put my luck completely down to being a Westerner.
Plenty of people hark on about how much they love Thailand, or how much better a place it than their native country. Therefore, would it be correct to presume that they wish they had been born here, and therefore had been able to spend all those years before they discovered Thailand here too, and could actually be one of the people they like so much? I presume so. OR, would it be correct to think that only being a Westerner in Thailand suits them?
I have to say, anyone who doesn't wish that they were born Thai are somewhat guilty of double standards, because they likely only like Thailand for what they can get out of it as a Westerner here....kind of exploiting the place and people they "love"....