Thailand to become like America?

[MisterClean]

Sweep up the street vendors, initiate police state, war on vice, register your business and bow down to corporate vampires. Dont you know that the more corporations that are allowed to operate, they will by nature sue to remove the street vendors who dont contribute to the tax base and suck 50% of their profits?

Wake up THAILAND, Keep Your Street Culture at all costs or suffer a depression such as the one America is enduring now.

[MrPlum]

Many countries tend to follow where the U.S. leads but do you have a source for this?

[MisterClean]

Many countries tend to follow where the U.S. leads but do you have a source for this?

My eyeballs. I see the Phase 1 happening now, and especially once huge multinational corporations move in, they are expected to generate a profit...maximum profits. Its the nature of the beast for the lead executive in the Thai corporate market to generate ever increasing profits in his or her sector, so once all other areas of profit making are exhausted, they will turn on the street culture, claiming public health and safety, and the madam of the Sofitel empire or what have you, whoever gets together and decides street culture MUST go the way of London, New York, will demand their reigning in the street culture.
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Vote with your FEET!
If that happens, Im off to Phnom Pen!

Moderators please forgive my posting location and I would respectfully ask to be moved to the appropriate area!

[blue05]

Health & safety? Really? Think you may be a century ahead of your time

[StevePIraq]

Thailand to become like America?

Do you mean bankrupted by corrupt government, corrupt corporations, excess spending, almost worthless US$ etc.

The USA has already led most of the world to the precipice of financial destruction, not to mention countless wars and conflicts.

May god help us if Thailand follows USA any further.

[dtaai-maai]

eyeballs.

Half right.

Moderators please forgive my posting location and I would respectfully ask to be moved to the appropriate area!

Sit tight, the special padded van is on its way.

[sargeant]

I see that with your paranoia over street food in hot weather (gawd elp us)
plus your paranoia over washing and drinking water (gawd elp us)

you must be the advance propaganda special forces for this Americanisation approaching

[J.J.B.]

This is a classic example of 'the self-referencing criteria', in other words 'what's good enough for uncle Sam is good enough for everyone else'. Happily Thailand has a strong culture and heritage that stretches back a little farther than that of the good ol' US of A and I think we can be confident that they will be able to resist such changes.

Then again, since America is the teat from which most 'corporate vampires' have been weaned, perhaps they should just kick out all Americans and their ilk who seem hell bent on causing trouble?

[sateeb]

Vote with your FEET!
If that happens, Im off to Phnom Pen!


I'm sure a few of us can have a whip round and send you packing

[dozer]

He may well be nut job, but I don't see why he has to be tagged as "a troll"

[Farang]

Thailand already is run, managed and above all owned by people having a much stronger, cohesive and much older culture than the American one; the Chinese.

So there is no immediate danger of any great changes in Thai (=Chinese) culture. Superficial changes, yes, profound ones, no.

[sargeant]

Dozer wrote

He may well be nut job, but I don't see why he has to be tagged as "a troll"

Free speech not withstanding dozer me old chum may i say one members nut job could quite well be another slack handfull of members troll

or vice vercy

[margaretcarnes]

Is Thailand still really under the influence of the States? During the 'American War' as Thais call it sure - the LOS was a useful go between and stopping off point in the fight against communism, and did pretty well out of it. That US influence still shows. But few countries now are immune to the growth of multinationals, and that is also showing.
I hope that Thailand is astute enough, and still independant enough, to see through the hype and just milk the multinational cash cows for all it can while retaining it's culture and independance.

[sargeant]

good morning mags

[Pleng]

Wake up THAILAND, Keep Your Street Culture at all costs or suffer a depression such as the one America is enduring now.

why do you care about these blood-poisoning street cretins, with their bad eggs anyway? they might even make the advances in clean water that you so long for.

Besides which, anywhere these big corporations spring up, street vendors and little markets tend to surround to feed the workers.