[ireleda]

I was coming to Thailand before a lot of these folks were born, I do things that I consider courteous that I was taught to do long before most of these folks were born,
not slamming a door in someones face is not something that has anything to do with super stores in Thailand, but it is from being raised to think that the other person is as good as you and to do unto others as you would have them do to you.
The only thing that I have seen here that is considered RESPECT is someone walking in front of people setting down is wieing and crouching down to walk in front of them, when it would have been more respectful to have walked behind.
Do you think it shows respect for 100 motorcycles crowding ahead and around the cars in front at a stoplight and causing a traffic jam when the light changes?
HISO people will show you respect if they think you are one of them and show no respect if they think you are not on par with them, so therefore the lower class do exactly the same thing and there is a hell of a lot more of them.
But we live here and this is noticed all the time, where tourists come, stay a few days and only notice what they consider "Quaint" people and scenery, but we also spend a lot of money living here, have wives and familys that we support and try to teach our young ones how to live peacefully with each other by showing respect as per "The Golden Rule" if you will.
This could go on and step on a lot of toes so I will quit, but it is also a sore spot when a cheap tourist comes here and tells me that because he does not live here that I should also leave, come over here from Jolly old England like his forefathers did to rape and plunder this country, bring automobiles and new things, leave them for the people and never take the time to teach them to operate them or use them safely and then run off.
Well they can go straight to hell.