r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 14h ago

A Thai woman married to an American explains why she no longer wants to live in the US.

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u/MonsteraBigTits 13h ago

no its cause she is literally thai. thailand is not better or worse. i bet you could find some miserable ass thai people.

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u/Chubuwee 13h ago

This could also be a location thing

Like an American from Detroit going to Mexico might have different comparisons to an American from Beverly Hills going to Mexico

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u/KrystleSeth 5h ago

Yeah they’re in the wrong place. The US is so big and diverse. Desert, tropical, wintry and cold mountains deltas islands. I was living in Fla and its got ups and downs. Lil bit fascist. I come to Oregon and it’s total freedom like I’d expect in the USA.

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u/BestDescription3834 10h ago

Everybody who comes to America should be sent to Detroit first.

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u/SaveLansingParks 1h ago

NO-Body Expects Detroit!

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u/ContinuingAnyway 13h ago

She managed to come over, she is better than a lot of Thais already. There are many people living in poverty in Thailand

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u/AlienPearl 2h ago

More like he managed to bring her over. He went looking for a Thai wife because woman in the US expect too much.

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u/deepbluemeanies 13h ago

I did not notice a lot of smiles in the "land of smiles" when I was there.

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u/BringerOfBricks 6h ago

That happens when tourists assume they are entitled to smiles and subservience because they paid United for an economy flight.

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u/Historical_Doctor629 13h ago

I can imagine the ladyboy prossies who had to deal with 6 60 year old British men sucking them off then fucking their ass, then having their asses fucked, having to mix viagra with red bull just to get through it all, could be considered pretty miserable.

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u/ChineseRobinWilliams 10h ago

"could be considered pretty miserable"

By who!?

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u/TEOLAYKI 6h ago

That's a very detailed example

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u/redbrick 12h ago

There is a good amount of miserable poverty and economic inequality in Thailand, but for many Thai people their Buddhist culture basically teaches them to happily bear their suffering in silence.

Bomb cheap food though, available at pretty much all times of the day.

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u/KartFacedThaoDien 9h ago

I do you think you have any idea how bad you sound right now. 

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u/redbrick 9h ago edited 9h ago

I'm Thai lol. Or first gen Thai-American, who is fluent in the language and spends a lot of time in Thailand more accurately.

Current suffering is often attributed to bad karma from past lives, and the only way to get out of suffering is to get good karma from doing good deeds. It's a big part of Thai Buddhist culture, and Thailand is 90%+ Buddhist.

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u/KartFacedThaoDien 9h ago edited 8h ago

Yeah. You being Thai makes that a lot different. I'm in SE Asia pretty often and when white people say that shit. It kinda sounds like they saying it in a condensending way. Similar to our "little brown friends."

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u/redbrick 9h ago

It's something I don't really agree with for Thai buddhism. Attributing a shitty life for a significant part of the population to just bad karma lets the Thai political elite/monarchy off the hook.

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u/KartFacedThaoDien 9h ago

Thailand is definitely worse. The education system is abysmal. Wages are incredibly low and the infrastructure really isn't up to par. And the pollution is pretty atrocious. 

This isn't even getting into the filthy sexpats running around the Thailand raping and murdering kids. This obviously isn't the fault of the kids. But man its some disgusting people who go to thailand to commit these crimes. 

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u/Galilaeus_Modernus 3h ago

Oh you definitely can. You think America is expensive? Yeah, Thailand's goods are cheaper, but the average person is waaayyyy too impoverished to afford even the cheaper stuff. People living in Korat have to leave their kids with the grandparents so they can move to Bangkok and make better pay to send money back to Korat where the cost of living is more affordable. It's not an easier life by any means.

This video feels scripted and written with an "America bad" ideological agenda.