No laughing matter

You assume too much. Many foreigners have quite a lot of knowledge about Thais and their culture. Your comment, “When someone feels spoken to by these cartoons and feels slighted, it tells enough about the mindset of this person,” is erroneous.

I have lived in Thailand for seven years, have a Thai partner of 10 years, hold a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies with honours in humanities, for which I wrote a dissertation on people-trafficking in Thailand, and I have worked on an indigenous programme aimed at educating the disadvantaged. I think I might know something about what I comment on.

There are many foreigners who work here in NGOs, as teachers, and as professionals in many fields. These people have to know something of the culture and people to simply do their job. Sure there are the bumbling drunks that still get employed here, and tourists, but, on the whole, most foreigners are hardly the ones these cartoons portray.

Your comments show your own ignorance.

Brent

Bangkok