Indians Are Increasingly Self Aware
[QUOTE=JPLove;2993944]I spent 10 days in the country back in August. Posted a detailed report on my trip here. Did 5 days in Pattaya and 5 in Bangkok. For background I am an early 30's white guy from NYC metro. Regarding your question about "brown" mongers, I will share my observations from my trip. Most of this pertains to Indian mongers, I'm not as sure how a black or African customer might be received.
In Pattaya Indian guys were stopped at the entrance to walking street gogo bars. I think most were not permitted to enter. I heard from some of these guys that bouncers apparently told them there was a 5 k baht entrance fee. I didn't have anything like this happen to me, just walked right into the gogo bars, no fee and no ID check. My hunch is that Indian guys will have an even harder time with P2 P in Pattaya than in Bangkok. The reason being that there are just a ton of Indians in Pattaya, and the girls / clubs tend to disfavor them as customers.
It's a similar story in Bangkok. I observed that near the entrance to nana plaza, many Indian guys would be stopped. Again, I had no issues and would just walk right into nana. But I saw other guys get stopped, questioned and they would have to show ID or maybe were even asked to pay an entrance fee. I did see a few Indian or "brown" guys inside the bars at Nana plaza..[/QUOTE]I am a mixed race, and for the last 5 years, I have been spending most of my time in India.
From what I can say, most Indians are self aware of what's going on.
Indians had been getting a bad rep for more than 2 decades in Thailand.
Rise of Social Media with messaging apps amplified it and there was some truth in it.
But, there are a lot of gogo bars, that don't mind them. They are mostly worried about a group of Indians.
I've seen a lot of Indian men pick up hot women from Nana and Soi Cowboy.
The thing they want is money.
The lower class of Indians, especially the ones who end up in Pattaya are offered cheap tour packages by Indian agents and thrown into a street full of dance / gogo bars and hookers lining up the street and.
They have never seen anything like that. So, they behave badly and since they lack any sense of personal space combined with their boy odor is annoying as hell. Then the fact that many of them have just about enough money to eat and get back to their return flight, will the bargain of the century.
This is very energy consuming.
But, there are Indians who through a lot of money away. I have seen in places like MIXX where Indians spend 20-40 k in just 2-3 hours.
There is no justification for a race tax.
[QUOTE=Grebe925;2994133]So an Indian fine seems natural. I have personally paid it at Crazy Horse even though it is humiliating but I understand the reason.[/QUOTE]Firstly, Crazy House has been charging the 500 baht entry fee from Indians since long before visa was exempted for Indians. On top of it, they make Indians pay double for a lady drink. Staff straight up asks them to ignore the price written on the menu.
Secondly, there are less racist ways to ensure the customer entering is a paying one. Baccara at Soi Cowboy asks, or at least used to ask, Indians to buy one drink each before entering. If that is not extravagant enough, as I have said many times before, adjustment of a [I]reasonable[/I] "entry fee" in the actual bar bill is one way. Easily doable with a coupon system. Even then, the freedom to take a quick look inside the bar is curtailed. But that is a more acceptable compromise.
Finally, please do not justify racism, even if it is against your own kind. I try my best to dress / smell fine, greet the staff with palms joined and be as ideal a customer as I can be without throwing wads of cash around. I do NOT deserve the suspicious and disgusting looks. The only saving grace is the fact that there are still plenty of women in Thailand who do not care about the color of my skin.
Crazy House and Bad Beach
In the States, I am a strip club goer. Generally prefer them over massage places. I like the vibe of naked girls dancing so I like these two in Soi Cowboy though not all get totally naked on stage. CH seems to be stricter than BB in that I saw a guy get reprimanded for reaching down between the legs when being given a lap dance at his seat. At BB I bought drinks for two fit, tattooed ladies and I had my hands all over them. The day before earthquake, I took the one with an explicit tatt on her thigh upstairs -3 K plus 800 BF plus 500 room. I just assumed she could take a pounding but she tapped-out before I could finish. Still a great time.