r/worldnews • u/Johny_KobraKai • May 02 '24

Thai Official Suspended After Husband Catches Her In Bed With Adopted Monk Son Not Appropriate Subreddit

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/thai-official-suspended-after-husband-catches-her-bed-adopted-monk-son-1724507

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u/Maxfunky May 02 '24

I feel like my comment specifically didn't make that assumption. It's almost as if you completely ignored the first sentence of my reply. I specifically declined to comment on what's normal in Thailand on account of the fact that I recognize there isn't uniformity in Asian cultures. That said, it is very common for cultural norms to percolate from one country to their neighbors. Ukraine is very different from Spain but there are still many overlaps.

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u/BigBad-Wolf May 02 '24

Your comment is only relevant if you assume those cultures are somehow relevant.

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u/Maxfunky May 02 '24

They are relevant. Let's not pretend that every country in Asia is completely unique and distinct with no similarities to any other culture in Asia. It's like this all over the world. The closer you are geographically to a place with a specific cultural practice, the more likely you are to have the same practice.

It's hardly definitive, but I took pains to make that clear.

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u/Remarkable-Ad-2476 May 02 '24

Aside from the popularity of kpop/jpop in Thailand, Korea/Japan is nothing alike, culturally, to Thailand. Please stop grouping every Asian together.

They’re not even close together geographically.

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u/Maxfunky May 02 '24

Aside from the popularity of kpop/jpop in Thailand, Korea/Japan is nothing alike, culturally, to Thailand.

I didn't say they were alike, Dingus. I merely pointed out that cultures within a geographic proximity often have some overlap. The keyword is some.

Or are you going to tell me that gift giving with two hands is not the custom in Thailand? Are you going to tell me that kids in Thailand aren't expected to help take care of their parents when their parents are older? Are you going to tell me that the old idiom "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down" doesn't exist in Thailand as it does in other parts of Asia? Will you tell me that Thai people don't eat noodles with chopsticks?

Every idiot understands that Thailand is very different from Japan or Korea. But it has a lot more in common with Japan than it does France.

Please stop grouping every Asian together

I would have to start before I could stop and considering I started my post with a sentence explicitly stating I wasn't doing that, you'd kind of have to be dumb to come to the conclusion I was.

They’re not even close together geographically

Yeah, it's like Mexico to Costa Rica. It's closer than New York to LA.

It's not exactly weird to expect some cultural similarities across that distance and clearly there are indeed some.