Do's and don'ts in Thailand

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Tack för detta Stephen Cleary som skriver på denna blog http://www.thai-blog...dex.php?blog=8:

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DOS:

- Do get used to Thais arriving for their appointments half an hour late, most of the country’s watches are ‘defunct’.

- Do tuck your feet in, the person sat opposite does not need to view what you have just been treading in.

- Do understand that Thais have a tender fondness for uniforms, they just love getting dressed up.

- Do realize that Thais just adore receiving awards, they are even given for just being born.

- Do have patience, the Thais don’t exactly enjoy having to listen to your waffling complaints all day long.

- Do take off your shoes when entering a house, unlike in the west; the Thais don’t need to see the remains of dog waste all over their floors.

- Do, as a Farang girl, wear a bra, the Thai women are a little sensitive about having to see such things ‘wobble’ about.

- Do, as a paying customer, understand that sales-girls prefer doing their make-up to serving you, beauty is of the upmost importance here, unlike 'you'.

- Do, as a foreign man looking for a Thai girlfriend, take your time and find a ‘decent’ one, Thais think us Farang guys have an awful sense of taste.

- Do, as a Farang baby, get used to having your cheek pinched 1,000 times a day and being told “Such a cutey little baby”, most of the girls would like to have one – just like you!

- Do understand that Thais have an infatuation for plastic bags, the sales-girls will even give you one for putting your chewing gum in.

- Do get used to Thais ‘jumping the queue’, they can wait 3 years for the first kiss from their boyfriends, but having to wait just 30 seconds in a queue at 7-11 is just unbearable.

- Do get used to using straws, after you have seen the state of most of bottle tops you will understand why.

- Do give up your seat to a schoolkid on the bus, as for the old man, just let him stand.

- And finally, do learn a few words of Thai, how would you feel if a Chinese guy did nothing but waffle on to you in ‘his’ own lingo in your home country.

Don'ts:

- Don’t go smooching your loved one in the middle of the street, Thais prefer performing such personal 'activity' in the privacy of ones room.

- Don’t use a fork to stick plain rice in your mouth, would your mother enjoy having to witness a foreigner use a knife to eat a potato in her country?

- Don’t even bother complaining about the daily noise pollution, if you like a bit of peace and quiet you may as well stay at home.

- Don’t go patting you friend on the head, Thais are a little sensitive about such things.

- Don't even begin thinking of discussing literary classics with the locals, the whole country is only besotted by cartoon books.

- Don’t, as a Farang employer, bother screaming at your office girls for eating khanom and chatting on MSN all day, anyway what can you expect on their miserly salaries?

- Don’t, as a Farang guy on wanting to marry a Thai misunderstand Thai tradition, do instead understand that a dowry or at least just showing one is part of the culture, no need to feel that you are always being ‘ripped-off’.

- Don’t, as a Farang girl, wear hotpants to the temple, you don’t need the monks breaking out in a sweat

- Don’t, as a Farang wanting to live here, even bother complaining to the officials in charge about the endless paperwork, they just love collecting forms and looking at them a thousand times.

- Don’t bother telling any of your ‘mother-in-law’ to the locals, Thais prefer comedy to the likes of a ladyboy falling off a chair.

- Don’t get paranoid at being cheated all the time, not all the Thais are out to ‘scam’ the Farang tourist of his dollars.

- And finally, don't feel insulted at having to hear the likes of "Hey you" and "Where you go man" from the nation's tuk-tuk and taxi drivers, do understand they've never learnt English at school.