Have to agree with the Terrier
[QUOTE=Terry Terrier]Simple! You should have said: "Admire the craft and ingenuity of your impoverished countrywomen. Unlike you, they weren't born with silver spoons in their mouths. Admire how they have avoided working for your fathers and uncles for a pittance in their shithole factories, offices and shops."
But I expect you told them something far more pleasing to their fragrant nouveau-riche ears ;).
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OTH,
Like me, you're a guy who's spent many long days picking fruit under the hot sun (just like a rice-farmer's daughter) and working other crappy jobs to make a living. I'm sure you must still have a bit of empathy for those living in poverty. How soon we forget.
The desperate girls at immigration are just looking for better opportunites in life, nervously and excitedly in anticipation of a better life elsewhere, just like you were when you turned up at Thailand immigration so many years ago.
Don't sneer at the less fortunate - condescension is simply a way of making oneself feel superior than those you think are below you.
And don't take this as a flame. Like you, I had a reasonably good life in my home country, and ventured elsewhere for probably the same reasons you did.