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News Forum - Thailand’s transgender rights echoed by Pheu Thai Party
Again with the same sex unions. This idea used to be a joke in the West, until later than year 2000. This sort of thing is very culture bound, and globalizing it ignores that Thai people have their own attitudes towards homosexuality. For a bit of context, although Buddhism is not uncritical of homosexuality, this criticism always comes in a broader context of anti-lust. And the societies of Southeast Asia, never were as hostile to homosexual acts, as were Europeans. So it takes the piss, when someone says, that indigenous Thai ideas and values on the subject must be replaced by Western ones. People might not think of this as racism and ethno-masochism, but it is. -
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Photo radar?
yeah when was it last calibrated.........got a ticket today 121kmh in a 120kmh kin ridiculous, binned it along with the others. Oh yeah now they stick a note in saying because youre a foreigner you must pay it...........presumably if youre thai then you dont have to, And before anyone chimes in with the usual crap taxed the cars just fine. Found in mailbox nothing signed for..........didnt receive it as far as Im concerned. -
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News Forum - Thailand’s transgender rights echoed by Pheu Thai Party
There is no need for foreign NGOs to push for trans rights in Thailand, of all places in the world. Their status in Thai vs Anglophone societies, reflects broader cultural differences. Not least that Western trans priorities such as 'gender identity' and 'gender expression', have very little to do with the Thai kathoey, in either concept or reality. For example, no one 'comes out' as kathoey. Kathoey are identified before they have self awareness of their status, at some point prior to their pre-teens. No one claims the Mathieu are literally real women, but that they have an ambiguous status, one leaning heavily toward female. No one can choose such a congenital status. It's unsurprising then that changing self-ID is a low priority, given Thai thinking on the matter. Western ideas about trans are culture bound, and the bad kind of globalist, but people fail to respect that. People can change gender ID in the UK, but without medical diagnosis - only a self report, to affirm subjective identity. This is the opposite of the kathoey. In fact if it's possible, at all, to identify kathoey with trans, it's only because the latter word is so vague, it can mean anything and nothing. -
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Pattaya Immigration Experience - 13 May 2024 - For Annual Extension
No idea. As I said in my post, my bank is SCB and they were excellent. -
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News Forum - Thai woman suffers panic attack after Isaan rocket lands on lawn
Hand held out for a payout.
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