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Are you serious?I was in Bangkok about a month ago, and Indian at the place I was staying was ripping off other hotel guests, refusing to pay for his room, and registered the web address of the hotel name (I was astonished the owners hadn't already done it). The police were called in to deal with it, I speak some Thai and they asked me to translate and also offer some legal advice (I am not a lawyer or anything resembling one, Thailand is just a really bizarre place sometimes). While we were at it, the owners said (at first in Thai and then in English so the Indian could understand) that Thais have a saying: "If you find an Indian and a snake in your home, kill the Indian first". The police laughed and agreed. Understandably the Indian protested and cried racism, but Thais are pretty much universally racist against Indians because Indians are so prone to trying to rip Thai people off. Thai people are pretty much all racist against Chinese, Africans and others. Racism is almost literally a part of the national policy in relation to the people of the east (this land was conquered by Thailand, the people are not ethnically Thai and don't have the same language or culture, and official policy keeps them as underclass. It was previously direct government policy and it is now just blatant but not officially racist). I don't know where you found Thai people who don't know what racism is, but if they do exist I'm impressed you found them. Thai culture is extremely polite, to the point of lying to save face of yourself or the person your talking to being the norm, so quite likely you spoke to Thai people who just pretended that racism was an alien concept because they thought it's what you wanted to hear or would respect. I've spent the majority of the last 5 years in Asia and in every country I've been to racism is openly accepted as normal by most people.The west is the only place where racism is such a taboo. The west is just about the only place where you'll find people feeling bad about being racist (and apparently only white people can be racist, etc etc). White people are possibly the least racist people in the world, certainly among the least, and have the largest taboo on racism, almost being unique in having a taboo at all. Interestingly, 5 years ago Asians heavily looked up to white people, but that is rapidly disappearing. Apparently if a race continually berates itself and indulges in self loathing and insult, other people figure they must be as bad as they say they are.
Are you serious?
I was in Bangkok about a month ago, and Indian at the place I was staying was ripping off other hotel guests, refusing to pay for his room, and registered the web address of the hotel name (I was astonished the owners hadn't already done it). The police were called in to deal with it, I speak some Thai and they asked me to translate and also offer some legal advice (I am not a lawyer or anything resembling one, Thailand is just a really bizarre place sometimes). While we were at it, the owners said (at first in Thai and then in English so the Indian could understand) that Thais have a saying: "If you find an Indian and a snake in your home, kill the Indian first". The police laughed and agreed. Understandably the Indian protested and cried racism, but Thais are pretty much universally racist against Indians because Indians are so prone to trying to rip Thai people off. Thai people are pretty much all racist against Chinese, Africans and others. Racism is almost literally a part of the national policy in relation to the people of the east (this land was conquered by Thailand, the people are not ethnically Thai and don't have the same language or culture, and official policy keeps them as underclass. It was previously direct government policy and it is now just blatant but not officially racist). I don't know where you found Thai people who don't know what racism is, but if they do exist I'm impressed you found them. Thai culture is extremely polite, to the point of lying to save face of yourself or the person your talking to being the norm, so quite likely you spoke to Thai people who just pretended that racism was an alien concept because they thought it's what you wanted to hear or would respect. I've spent the majority of the last 5 years in Asia and in every country I've been to racism is openly accepted as normal by most people.
The west is the only place where racism is such a taboo. The west is just about the only place where you'll find people feeling bad about being racist (and apparently only white people can be racist, etc etc). White people are possibly the least racist people in the world, certainly among the least, and have the largest taboo on racism, almost being unique in having a taboo at all. Interestingly, 5 years ago Asians heavily looked up to white people, but that is rapidly disappearing. Apparently if a race continually berates itself and indulges in self loathing and insult, other people figure they must be as bad as they say they are.
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