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Originally Posted by bigsquat
So gotta stick to Patong, Patts, Samui, and BKK, na?
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Northern thailand is fine, I wouldn't make the same comparison to Midwest US in that sense. Thailand is strange in that as a farang you are prejudiced against on so many levels and often in ways that would never go down in a western country, but at the same time very rarely will it ever take the form of nastiness or harm to anything other than your bank balance. Not so in the case of UK or USA where being gay, looking like a terrorist or wearing the wrong football shirt can get you attacked and sometimes killed.
I think it depends how sensitive you are really, as a farang in thailand you will never be "in the club" whether as a tourist or 30-year expat but how much does that matter if it doesn't affect your life in a very tangiable way. I see it less as a negative specifically attached to thailand and more something to be proud of in our own culture than we've done well at breaking down class barriers and racial inequalities. It's something that you export to thailand and occasionally brings to people in your circle opportunities they otherwise could never have had, whether the wider community appreciates it or not.