Relying heavily on what appears to have been a weeklong vacation through the southern beaches (and maybe a quick Google search of “Thailand”), the list is part of the great nauseating canon of online resources meant to convince YOU (the would be traveler) that Thailand is a paradise of cheap eats, kind-hearted natives and PARTAYYYYS! Call it fun, call it young, call it fluff. I call it irresponsible and something that has to stop because it’s not fair to twist and turn and create a utopia out of a nation that deserves to be honored and celebrated, not because it is a young spring-breaker’s dreamscape, but because it is a complex place whose people deserve as much credibility and respect as the Western tourists who flood their villages and their cities looking for a wild time.
But I guess I shouldn’t expect much from an author whose bio states her favorite places to travel are “in Central America because they have the cutest animals.” She’s clearly a world citizen. She’s clearly someone who thinks deeply about the places she travels and works to acknowledge the lightness and the darkness of these places. She’s clearly someone who would never want to misrepresent or use a people and its country as a device for a dumb article that other dumb people will post on their Facebook walls #travel #dreamvacay #gagme.
In spirit of the listicle, I’ve decided to make one of my own in response, debunking each and every wrong generalization she’s made about a people and a country I’ve come to deeply respect and love. For total comprehension, take a gander at her list and then read through mine.
.) No one prefers motorbikes to minivans.
In a recent Global Status Report from the World Health Organization, Thailand ranked 3rd in total motorbike accidents with over 10,000 deaths caused by bikes annually. Many of these deaths occur when people try to cram more than two people on a motorbike, much like the fearless and intrepid moto-moms you talk about in your list. They cram all of their family on one bike because cars are extremely expensive and many families cannot afford more than one motorbike per household.
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Relying heavily on what appears to have been a weeklong vacation through the southern beaches (and maybe a quick Google search of “Thailand”), the list is part of the great nauseating canon of online resources meant to convince YOU (the would be traveler) that Thailand is a paradise of cheap eats, kind-hearted natives and PARTAYYYYS! Call it fun, call it young, call it fluff. I call it irresponsible and something that has to stop because it’s not fair to twist and turn and create a utopia out of a nation that deserves to be honored and celebrated, not because it is a young spring-breaker’s dreamscape, but because it is a complex place whose people deserve as much credibility and respect as the Western tourists who flood their villages and their cities looking for a wild time.
But I guess I shouldn’t expect much from an author whose bio states her favorite places to travel are “in Central America because they have the cutest animals.” She’s clearly a world citizen. She’s clearly someone who thinks deeply about the places she travels and works to acknowledge the lightness and the darkness of these places. She’s clearly someone who would never want to misrepresent or use a people and its country as a device for a dumb article that other dumb people will post on their Facebook walls #travel #dreamvacay #gagme.
In spirit of the listicle, I’ve decided to make one of my own in response, debunking each and every wrong generalization she’s made about a people and a country I’ve come to deeply respect and love. For total comprehension, take a gander at her list and then read through mine.
.) No one prefers motorbikes to minivans.
In a recent Global Status Report from the World Health Organization, Thailand ranked 3rd in total motorbike accidents with over 10,000 deaths caused by bikes annually. Many of these deaths occur when people try to cram more than two people on a motorbike, much like the fearless and intrepid moto-moms you talk about in your list. They cram all of their family on one bike because cars are extremely expensive and many families cannot afford more than one motorbike per household.
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