Germaine Ben-Dover - you must be joking ? major politicial unrest, military killing it’s citizens, and generals are assisnated in public, Thailand is on the edge of a civil war. Not to mention, i lived and worked in Thailand for 5 years. Gosh kinda sounds like Burma to me
I stand four square by what I said, Thailand is indeed a first rate country. Like Aaron you make assertions which you can not back up with so much as an explanation, let alone evidence. If what you say is true, that Thailand is not a first rate country please give us an example of a first rate country? Or are you asserting that there are no first rate countries in the world? Name a country you think is better than Thailand and why?
Germaine Ben-Dover, Stockholm - I’m sorry, Thailand is a WHAT ? “Thailand is a first rate country” <—yea that’s your quote.. You must have been drunk when you wrote that BS ..
So I have this problem! You see I came over to Asia from the west to be a teacher and they paid me 3 times the amount of a local, made me work 25 to 30 hours a week, 15 of it was actual teaching hours which left me only public holidays and my demand to take 20 days personal leave so I could have sex with a hooker I met on a tropical island! I got the HIV but my school won’t provide me with medical insurance in a country where a large percentage of it’s own people either can’t afford it or who’s jobs won’t include it in their tiny wages and since I took that hooker to the island she stole all my savings and left me stranded, now when I ask my bosses for another advance (the last one was because I had to go home for my grandmother’s funeral (really it was the Roadfest featuring blink182) butthey said no! I mean what the he’ll is wrong with these people? I mean I hold a picture of a cat up in front of their kids for like half an hour a day and sometimes I have to put on a tie or a golf shirt and go to the park and play with the kids. I think my talent and ability are worth more than what I’m getting. I mean sure it’s my first job out of uni but I have to pay off that 30,000 dollar student loan I used to get my tat sleeves done, oh and that weekend in Whistler (Woot Woot!) oh and 4 years of a BA in Woman’s studies. I mean I paid a thou for a TEFL course and learned how to pay kids off but mostly we just drank and listened to our instructor tell us about all the Asian poon we would get. What am I going to do!!!? Please help by offering me a job for 40,000bht a month so I can Oxford to continue living in my serviced apartment and I don’t have to fire my maid who I pay less then I spend on my coke habit in an hour.
Kanadian- please tell me you’re not from Canada and please don’t compare Thailand to Canada. This is not the west and has a ways to go before it can compete or even catch up to western standards. Yet doing so or being a replica of a “first rate” country has nothing to do with those things. Don’t sound like an ass (more so than you’re sounding). I implore you! Seriously why can’t a country so culturally different and rich in it’s own history be first rate? Just because it doesn’t match up to the west doesn’t make it a great place. And maybe you might what to learn the difference between first rate as an expression for enjoying a place and loving the culture and people for the term first world. Sure Asia has it’s corruption and dirty politics (as do we in the west) but so what? I
Mean for such first rate countries as Canada and the US are where do we sit on a numbered list of educated countries? Maybe we need to concentrate on that a little more and leave Asia alone.
By Owsley, Thailand on 2010-12-15