This sign means that all foreigners must pay 20 Baht but Thai citizens get in free.Question for the world? How do you respond when you are in the gym spinning and a staff member in a higher position than you refers to you as "the foreigners".
It's hard to really comprehend how you are received in a country where you are living as a guest until something like that slips. You work amongst a very nationalistic group of people, proud of their country and culture, but at the same time resentful of your mere existence.
Needless to say it was thrown back at her without haste but with no apology what so ever. This is the same person who said I needed to work every weekend because I was a foreigner and made more money and had a housing allowance. In a separate conversation she also said I needed to work every weekend because I am the "single" one of the group and everyone else has a family.
Just to put this in perspective, she has two housekeepers, a nanny and a driver.
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