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Originally Posted by Evski
building upon what jaybee said, make sure you read up some subjects relating to thai taboos. you wai a monk, thai royalty, etc...but you also have to be careful with other things that we farang do instinctively. for example, you drop a coin and it starts twirling around, so you step on it to stop it--WRONG--the thai coin has an engraving of him imperial highness, and you just committed a horrible sign of disrespect and will now have several thais hop all over you and kick your ass. one entry on stickman mentioned a farang who unknowingly stepped on a newspaper that that particular day had a picture of the king on it...luckily no one noticed or he feared that serious consequences might have been endured. the thais believe that the top of the head is sacred and the feet are the lowest part of the body.
i haven't been to LOS, but my boss' wife is thai, and i've seen, during arguments, her raise her foot forward as a way of saying "fcuk you/off" essentially.
jaybee is right, you must wai a monk or royalty, but wai them correctly. stickman basically says never wai anyone else because you most probably are doing it improperly.
do your research. it's a good thing to know about.
evski.
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I dont think ill ever meet any royalty, And if i see a monk ill bow my head at him but as far as im concerned thats as far as it goes, Dont get me wrong ill be as repectful as i can but im not buddist and where i come from we dont have royalty and we dont bow to priests(Some did and ended up with a sore **** but thats another story
) As i said before i was brought up to see everybody as my equal's nothing less and nothing more, But by giving a wai to royalty,politicians,police etc, Your saying that there better than you which is wrong
Everybody has a different opinion on it and they mite not agree with mine, Which is
