First of all I found his comments to be narrow-minded at the very least and Thai business has actually nothing to do with him. It was quite surprising as he had lived in Thailand a long time and was married to a Thai lady. It goes back to that old saying of ” change what you cannot accept, accept what you cannot change”. You can also take this back to the first proverb of ”in a town where people wink, you must also wink ” or when in Rome or Bangkok”