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Originally Posted by Johnny B  yes of course it's alright by me, Arabs are over charged in Britain today..........as the owners of Manchester City.If you buy a watch in Spain off the chaps that frequent the bars the first they want to know is where are you from.And depending on your answer is what price you are going to be charged.One said you are English your economy is doing well the pound is strong against most currencies .......you can afford to pay more than a Spaniard.It's just economics,not a personal attack on you. |
It's not just ecconomics its wrong. Making judgement on what to charge someone based on skin colour. Come on. Ecconomics. Dont make excuses for thais. I have seen them skin tourists for alot of money and could write a book on scams.
The fact they also do it in other countries too doesn't make it right either. You want to condone it? Or do you want to stop it. I remember Thailand the helmet law was rarely enforced in Thailand for locals but foreigners acting on example looking at Thais and riding around without helmets were fined. A cartoon making light of this was in the Pattaya local papers once I remember showing a cop busting a foreighner and a thais were driving by the scene without helmets. One law for them another law for us. That's Thailand isnt it?
The cops have changed their ways now they just bust everyone for money and not public safety as most of the helmets are not capable of saving anyone.
Thais are no longer poor as they were and it's not as cheap as it was and in this world ecconomic climate tourists dont find Thailand cheap anymore. Maybe it's time to change Thailand and revamp the tourist industry. Clean up the beaches and clean the scammers off the streets. Thailand doesn't need bad publicity and there seems to be alot of it and quite deservingly too.
07-07-2009, 04:09 AM
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