Originally Posted by
thegent
Presumably your girlfriend is Thai?
Asians approach death in a different way to farang. That's not to mean they don't value life any the less, it's just that to them death is not so final given their beliefs.
Translating that into the day to day actions they engage in, Asians are not so squeamish of another's suffering. I think it resolves to lack of empathy most Asians seem to have for others not of their species and probably is rooted in an innate lack of imagination or capacity for abstract thought.
Really, they're a cruel people, albeit prone to sentimentality, remarkably ignorant and insensitive and usually just a little bit stupid. Whether it be a peasant or a General, they're mostly all deficient as human beings but in truth outside of their little bubbles of consciousness why should they care?
One walks among them in a cloak of invisibility most of the time.