I think some of you should take a step back and look at how immigrant communities are treated in your own countries before you start criticising the Thais. The UK for instance supposedly is proud of their multicultural society and has a tradition of integration. Trouble is, in reality we never trusted or liked the Jews, then the Jamacans, then the Indians, now the Eastern European gipsys and the Muslims. Come to that the Welsh, Scots, and Irish are a rum lot, not to mention them bloody Southerners.

Integration takes several generations and at the slightest trouble all the old predudices will emerge.

I know several countries where the loudmouthed, arrogant, yobbish, rich influx are resented and treated much worse than in Thailand. It's bad enough when we criticise immigrants, worse when we are the immigrants looking for a better life but wanting our own cultural standards and our little walled compounds, McDonalds, English Bars, KFC, etc and running down our hosts.